| 1859 | David | | Trying to identify, round up, and change the parenting of every adult who needs intervention is an impractical solution. Often parents don't realize they have poor parenting skills, are not motivated to change their behavior, face serious psychological, and practical obstacles, and have already damaged their children. Instead of being reactive, we should be proactive and teach kids best parenting behaviors and practices so they'll be prepared for the most important job they'll have as adults. The parenting education could take the form of permanent and evolving multimedia public service announcements on radio, television, billboards, print, and the internet designed to teach every young person how to engage in parenting that supports the healthy physical, emotional, and intellectual development of children, and reject parenting that disrupts the healthy development of children. I can envision engaging school age spokespersons delivering these messages. I represent Parenting Ed for Young People. We believe that teaching kids how to parent could, in one generation, transform communities struggling with child abuse and neglect, substance abuse, and other forms of violence. We maintain a Yahoo discussion group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ParentingEdforYoungPeople/ and our telephone number is (661) 477-1513 . |