 What makes an effective parent? Whatever answers you give, odds are these are qualities that must be learned. Qualities such as understanding children, knowing how to respond to misbehavior, communicating with your teen are not inherent skills but rather develop over time and through training.
Over the years people will deal with struggles in their families… divorce, children in difficult stages, teen issues, empty nest changes. They all effect the quality of family life. Successfully navigating these troubled waters requires reliable information, community level support, and relationship skills able to adapt to family change.
Why make Parent Education a priority for families?
Family Life Council knows from research that parent education works. Effective parenting skills are learned. Parent education is correlated with the following positive outcomes:
- Increase in child’s IQ
- Improvement in child’s school performance
- Increase in parent’s ability to read infant cues
- Increase in positive parent/child language interactions
- More open and flexible child rearing attitudes
- Increase in parent’s role as educator of their child
- Increase in parents’ feelings of control over their lives
Family Life Council conducts ongoing program evaluation to test the effectiveness of all of our parenting programs. Our pre-, post-test, and follow-up results with program participants show:
- 90% report improved parent/child communication
- 97% report improved confidence and competence
- 88% report improved child safety plans
- 97% report better understanding of children’s developmental milestones.
- 97% report improved understanding of non-physical discipline techniques
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