Category: Parenting Guide: Section 1

Parenting Guide: Section 1
Ericka

Topic 1: What is the purpose of the parenting guide?

Before we developed this guide, we questioned the need because we had some awareness of the massive amount of parenting information that is available online and assumed that most parents would use the Internet and other options to enhance their parenting skills. But after visiting with some younger parents, we found that even though they had many options, they found that because of the massive amount of information available online, parents can spend hours searching for blogs, looking at parenting tips, and personal accounts on how to raise their children. While this can be informative, it is also time-consuming and confusing.

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Parenting Guide: Section 1
Ericka

Topic 2: How Do Parents Learn Parenting Skills?

Today’s parents do differ in how they parent but this is expected because their parents parented differently than other parents. This suggests that we start our parenting with different levels of beliefs. That’s OK when we first start our parenting, but parents need to continue to improve their skills if they want to have a positive impact on the upbringing of their children through all stages of development from birth into adulthood.

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