| What happen? Should? Parenting Classes be taught in public school?
Posted: 3/14/2008 2:35:35 PM | | thank you for helping me make my point. Feeding and infant and changing a diaper is not rocket science. The hospitals show you how to do this properly before you leave them. Where people have trouble is caring for a toddler, child and teen. Most of the abuse happens to children these ages because some parents don't know how to raise them. you can't teach this. It's not enough to feed and clothe them. You have to have patience and ways to disclipine tht aren't over the top. You can't teach this. Your parents can handle it one way and that's the only way you know.. 20 - 25 years ago when I was a kid it was vastly different then it is now. Or at least in my neck of the woods. You can show your kids patience but you can't teach it. It's on the job training. Perhaps parenting style was the wrong word for what i am referring to, but it's the one that seems to fit best. You can tell them and you can show them the proper way to care for a child but until they have a child themselves they cannot truly grasp the concept. I do not like how much the schools teach the kids. I feed my son breakfst. I pack his lunch I teach him as much as I can myself. | |
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| What happen? Should? Parenting Classes be taught in public school?
Posted: 3/14/2008 7:40:07 PM | | My brother learned very quickly to avoid an early entrance into parenthood. He was only 15 when I had my 1st. I was visiting from out of town when he was 16 with my 2 babies. I was cooking dinner for the family nd had hm watch my kids while I did so. Baby was colicky so he was rocking her carseat with his foot, nwhile trying to keep my 1 yr old happy all whie trying to finish his homework for his date. In the end he had to cancel his date because he wasn't done his homework, and the first words out of his mouth when my foks got home from work were "no I know why people have to drop out of school if they have kids you can't get anything done with kids around". Now at 24 he is still not a parent and very very careful to keep it that way. They don't need parenting classes they just need to borrow my kids for a day or two, they would make sure they were older, stable and ready for parenthood. | |
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| What happen? Should? Parenting Classes be taught in public school?
Posted: 3/15/2008 7:53:51 PM | | this is what i'm saying. He expirenced it. he learned. This is the only way to truly understand wha it is to be a parent. You can't learn it, you can't teach it. Tovgive a teen a real live infant for a fwe days would be the only true way to give them even a clue. That's not a realistic approach though. Unless there is someone out there willing to do this. (that is give thier baby to a child and leave..doubtful)A few hours babysitting isn't enough..they need a few days...with no help.. | |
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| What happen? Should? Parenting Classes be taught in public school?
Posted: 3/15/2008 9:22:32 PM | Character education is taught in many middle and secondary schools. These focus more on the values and responsibilities of being a well rounded human being (respect, responsibility, tolerance, cooperation, truthfulness, etc.) It is by no means a replacement for what parents themselves should be teaching their own children at home.
The problem is that many parents don't know how to parent and/or they don't care enough to work at learning how to become better parents. Ignorance produces ignorance and it becomes a viscous cycle. Your basic Home Economics class isn't going to do it, given today's problems with children and the lack of parenting.
I think the sad part is that the education system is looked at as the vehicle to instruct kids in the areas that parents have neglected. I'm not saying that it shouldn't be done; goodness knows it's needed. I've had a vision of mandatory parenting classes supported and funded by communities and agencies for parents whose children are chronic behavior problems both in and out of the school. There are programs/projects, but normally the courts are the ones who mandate attendance.
I am continually amazed at the ill behaved kids (and parents) that enable them to be that way.
The saying is right....The apple doesn't fall far from the tree" and I'd like to add, that it's easy to tell what the tree's been fertilized with. | |
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