Parenting Groups - Do They Change How Parents Think About Parenting?

The program is geared towards supporting parents in making thoughtful choices for their children. The five overall goals of the program are as follows:
Promote the parent’s responsibility for, investment in, and devotion of time and energy to the child.
Promote responsive, sensitive parent-child relationships.
Support parents as guides in their children’s behaviors and emotions.
Promote each parent’s ability to influence her child’s verbal and brain development.
Promote each parent’s sense of community.

Parent Connection

Parent connection uses several different strategies and approaches to address parenting and support the family.  

Parent to Parent

Positive parenting practices-

Showing commitment to parenting.

Spending time with their child

Prioritizing their child’s needs

Embracing the role of a parent

Working to be sensitive and responsive parents

Considering their child’s feelings

Recognizing that their child is unique

Reflecting on how their responses affect their child

Guiding their child’s behavior and emotions

Giving their child appropriate levels of control

Using positive parenting skills

Allowing their child to express feelings

Helping their child learn

Reading with their child

Talking with their child

Playing “grown-up” tasks like cooking and cleaning

Purposeful Parenting

Parents can have a positive influence on their child’s development, even when they are facing other big problems in their lives;

The quality of the parent-child relationship is more important than any one parenting practice;

There is no one “right” way to parent;

Successful parenting involves thoughtful decisions and a sense of responsibility for the child;

Parents can best develop and sustain a commitment to responsibility when they belong to a community of parents who share that sense of parental responsibility.

Child Development

Coming soon