The ideas in the class are based on the work of Rudolph Dreikers, who believed that children should be responsible for their behavior. This course teaches parents numerous techniques for ensuring that children accept the responsibility for their behavior. Accepting responsibility may be tough on young people, but it is necessary. Parents also learn why their children misbehave and develop skills to respond to the misbehavior. They master communication skills that frequently improve the atmosphere in the family.
Parents discover how to be encouraging rather than discouraging.
They begin to focus on what is important and how to avoid unnecessary power struggles. There are many unexpected benefits. Parents frequently report that the principles learned in class help them work more successfully with other adults. Marriages sometimes improve, as do relationships at work. Most parents soon realize that without education they tend to rear their children they way their parents reared them.