Is parenting education just for parents with “bad” kids?
Parenting education is not just for parents with bad kids. When we get our feet to the fire and we don’t know what we’re doing, with the kids behaving very badly and so are the parents, this is when most parents will seek some sort of help. If everything’s peachy keen, people don’t want to rock the boat as everything’s good. One of the things I’ve noticed in parenting classes is that things have to get really bad before people say, ouch, what am I going to do here? That’s what happened to me; I realized I didn’t have the skills. I didn’t understand why it wasn’t easier, but it was horribly difficult. A lot of parents think that because children are little it’s supposed to be easy. That is one of the biggest mistakes right there, it’s not easy. It could be easy if parents really had the modern skills; it could get much easier than this confrontational, bad temper, back and forth, lack of cooperation, irritation that goes on in families as it’s not necessary.
