Parenting education

Parenting education

While you have come to this page it is important that at the end of this information you get to learn what parenting education is and what parenting education that parents may adopt to train up or care for their children, likewise the education for parenting themselves called parenting education.

And while the objectives of this post is that readers are taken through on;

• What is parenting education?

• What are (contents) in parenting education parents may adopt to train up or care for their children;

• Importance and benefits of parenting education;

• The parenting education programs.

What is parenting education?

Parenting education could be termed as the education prepared or designed to educate parents to effectively train and care for their children. In recent times there has been different means/ or channels created for parents in becoming educated and such are from the internet resources, home checks, radio/tv programs, support groups, newspapers and e-books like this. With all these however, the importance of these sources and programs is to help and effectively make parents become aware the essential role they need to play in the developmental process of (their) children but each effort may vary essentially as ranging from what may be across to parents. 

Yes, there is the growing awareness that the social ills in the society today are the ripple effects of parents not getting quality and enough parenting education in the proper administration and welfare in place for (their) children, such that parents overtime are not aware or just really not equipped with the right education to renew perception of parenting. 

However, in today’s developing world, parenting education are propagated, channeled and organized online, in health centers, religious organizations, community centers and schools and could be or usually conducted by people with experience in child training development, human psychology and development, educationist, and social or community workers. 

What are (contents) in parenting education parents may adopt to train up or care for their children?;

Parenting education may not be one-way approach but definitely there are different approaches to it. 

However, this section will try to point out some approaches and/or assumptions that tries to validate parenting education.

 

1. Advices over hundred years back capitalizes and make emphasis that children are made to or should religiously submit to parents but when looking at it, serious research has gone down the line on child development as to what ideal and definition of parenting took to change spontaneously. Ever since, a more recommendation advice on parenting became that parents provide care, love and support from the 1930s. The end point of result is parents are obliged to provide the care, love and support.

2. With more research which further shows that parents who understand better tend to produce socially competent children by the acts of being supportive and other measureable controls in better place for educating (their) children. Social competence reflects in children with confidence, responsible, independence and goals and achievements. However more, parents who tend to extend low level or no parental supports will likely produce children that characterizes inadequacy, low self-esteem, deviations from civic responsibilities, risk taking traits. The end point of result is parents get to ensure that children are raised to be competent socially.

 

3. Parental behaviors, according to research has dealt with parental control methods to be categorized as –  The use of power/coercion by parents –  The next is exclusion or love withdrawal – The next being Induction method. Each of these has its influence on children by the thoughts behavior by parents.

 

• The use of power/coercion by parents: as the name suggests, this method/or approach involves parents adopting force to make their children behave in certain ways. And this is used when children (may) exhibit certain characters or from children who are less socially competent. By this method, children may perceive that their actions are being influenced or try to be changed by external control. They rather might subject to this control as long it is there, or possibly get to stick to correction to such control by the parent. But, the after effect may still not really change things positively, as children might either become rebellious (stubborn) or generally see such external control get gradually changing him/her to become passive (inactive). If this control influence may span overtime it might persists to change even the personality of the child and/or views about life.

 

• Exclusion or love withdrawal: When a child may go against certain unwanted characters by their parent(s) – then parents in such manner get disapproving of it – because it displeases them or fall against their rules. In such case, it may go the extent that if parents may not use external force on (their) child – then they can go to the extent of using it against the emotions (psychological control) of the child by ignoring, isolating, and even shaming the child in public. According to some educators, this method of the love withdrawal from a child have found it to be useful, acceptable and while against it, some have found it to bring about depressed children.  Another recent research finds that, love withdrawal and where parents may expressively use it, there some parts of this love withdrawal expression that could be toxic or abusive on a child. Such toxicity, at the end that parents use the guilt (of their children) or by the deliberate manipulation commonly breeds non-focus, anxiety and depressed children in the society.

 

• Induction method: This method if far more suggested and acceptable as to the twain above. And this include the method parents should intuitively adopt – as it involves reasoning with (their) child (children) and aiding them to understand better the good and bad effects of their actions and/or behaviors on other people. This method gets to bring up a child into realization of many realities as how he/she may need to behave. You can go to the extent by telling your child that; (for example, “You hit your younger brother – you need to realize that he will be intimated and think you don’t like him, or may hit you back”. With this effective method of induction being used or adopted by parents will be able to breed socially organized and competent children for family and the society. 

Benefits that may arise from using this method are:

• It morally develops the child

• It makes children get thinking better in most positive ways 

• It helps children to consider first the likely effects of their behaviors or actions on themselves and others

• It helps to cultivate the child’s own logic, application and sense of compassion

• Children that are breed with induction approach build internalized standards and measures for their behaviors and actions.

The parenting education programs; 

In this section, a parent education program is a course that a parent can adopt, follow to correct and use in improving its parenting skills. It may cover general aspect of parenting skill, the specifics, and the issues that are commonly being faced by parents possibly in the different stages such as – the educative programs and instructions needed for children, infants, toddlers and teenager even down to adolescent’s stages. Courses of this programs can as well be considered towards parents who are still expect to having a child or for adoption and/or pregnant parents. Some of the programs in the content of parenting education are:

• The Systematic training for effective parenting (aka, STEP) which is based on individual psychology. It is a parenting education program that was published as book series. The STEP got to be developed by the psychologists. It was an extensive concept for training. It is based on Alfred Adler’s individual psychology, Thomas Gordon and Rudolf. The program course, in terms of its evaluation indicates that parents who engaged/or participated in STEP had more perception that proves positive and upwards on their children and who were less likely getting them abused. However, in the time frame, STEP has reached over four million parents worldwide and still currently presented (translated) into different languages such as Spanish, German, French and Japanese and as according to recent info that, Korean and Chinese adaptations is still being worked on. 

 

• The Parent Effectiveness Training (PET) which is based and geared towards the individual psychology. Is an approach that is neither authoritarian nor permissive in communication between the parent and the child. It is also a method of resolving conflicts between both the parent and the child in meeting their needs. It is a course based on the concepts and required skills in reaching a more democratic and collaborative relationship. The main skills involve the I-message, active listening, shifting gears, No-lose conflict resolution that facilitates in identifying “who initiated or whose problem is this? Knowing and identifying whose problem is this is taken up as the step in coming up to resolving interpersonal conflict. The parent effectiveness training (PET) is a program based on the Gordon Model by Thomas Gordon. And the course was taught firstly in the year 1962 and the course which proved to become popular with more parents following its teachings in communities in the U.S which spread definitely to all the fifty states. Many people in different parts of the world show much interest in making the course program become available in their countries. As Dr. Thomas Gordon drums up this course as “a no-lose method – a method of getting to resolving conflicts (problems) to majorly meet their needs”. 

Importance and benefits of parenting education;

In few words, parenting education programs offer support and education that can help resolve and address issues in practically making it easier for parents in school of parenting that can empower a child’s ability to get going right. The importance of parenting education goes further for parents and other caregivers of all types – such as grandparents, foster parents, etc. can use the chance to learn new strategies and tips to better relate with their children and enjoy conversing and being with them.  Another importance is that it gives parents an opportunity to get engaging with other parents they may come across – sharing such with other parents that are having similar or related issues or challenges. Another yet importance is that parents who have attended and have been sensitized in learning the effective discipline to some parenting methods has been reported raising kids with improved academic grades, less behavioral issues, improved metal health, less abuse issues and socially competent children breeds.  

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