The Parenting Doc
Blog URL http://www.parentingdoc.blogspot.com
Located North Hollywood, California USA
Tags Parenting, Parents, Family, Education, Parenting Education, Black Parenting, Parenting Classes
Interesting information about parenting education and training.
Latest Blog Posts
- Effective Parenting and Online Parenting Classes on Nov 18, 2009
Much is known from decades of solid research about what parenting attitudes and practices in combination are the most helpful in raising healthy and achieving children. A pattern or style of parenting that features abundant parental warmth, empathy a...
- Why Should Communities Be Committed to Effective Parenting and Parenting Education? on Nov 16, 2009
The reason are both compelling and numerous, and that is why I will be presenting a special webinar on Wednesday, December 8, 2009 at 2 PM Eastern Time. It is called Helping Your Community Raise Healthy Children: A Two-Hour Webinar on Effective Par...
- We Must Stop Hitting Children! Part 6 -- Hitting Is Used for a Variety of Reasons on Nov 12, 2009
Research has found that parents are more likely to use physical punishment if:They strongly favor it and believe in its effectiveness.They were themselves physically punished as children.They have a cultural background, namely their religion, their e...
- We Must Stop Hitting Children! Part 5 -- Approval of Hitting is Declining on Nov 5, 2009
Belief in the utility and even necessity of physical punishment as a method of child rearing has been strong through generations of Americans from at least the early 17th century to the present day. Now, four hundred years later at the beginning of t...
- We Must Stop Hitting Children! Part 4 -- Hitting Is Very Common on Oct 28, 2009
Several recent studies reveal that the majority of parents in the United States continue to physically punish their children. Nearly two-thirds of parents of very young children (1- and 2-year-olds) reported using physical punishment. By the time chi...
- New Parenting Program Teaches Basics on Oct 22, 2009
The NEW Confident Parenting Program from the Center for the Improvement of Child Caring, of which I am the primary author, provides parents with the basic information about about how children learn and how to use this knowledge in raising healthy, ha...
- We Must Stop Hitting Children! Part 3 Countries Who Want to Stop on Oct 21, 2009
Increasingly, countries around the world are prohibiting physical punishment of children. As of January 2009, 24 countries have passed laws to ban physical punishment:Sweden (1979), Finland (1983), Norway (1987), Austria (1989),Croatia(1994),Cyprus (...
