Parenting is not an easy job. Most parents decide they either want to alter the experience of how their own parent treated them or want to parent just as their parent did. However, there are plenty of situations parents face for which they feel unprepared. Without alternatives, most people fall back on the parenting they received for good or ill. Recently reported research provides a helpful and hopeful answer.
Parent training pays off for parents and their children.
Phillip Strain, a professor of educational psychology at the University of Colorado, Denver recently completed a study tracking 40 children to adulthood proving that their parents' training twenty-five years previously led to improved lifelong consequences for their children. But Rhode Island parents do not need to travel to Denver, Colorado to receive the benefits of parent training. As parents we have a strong urge to keep our child safe and secure. Because of our own experiences and knowledge of the world as well as our fears, whether justified or not, parents are constantly making choices based on their desire to keep their child safe and secure. However, children, because of their lack of knowledge and experiences and subsequent lack of fears have a strong desire to discover and explore everyone and everything in the world with no regard for his or her safety and security.