WHAT IF PARENTS CANNOT ATTEND ALL OF THE SESSIONS OR WISH TO ENROLL AFTER THE FIRST SESSION?
Parents often miss sessions, but facilitators should encourage parents to attend as many sessions as possible because the information is cumulative, and missed sessions early on will make it difficult to grasp concepts discussed in later sessions. It is recommended that parents not be permitted to join the group if they have missed the first two sessions. This is partly because they will have missed too much of the fundamental information to fully understand the more complex concepts, and partly because the addition of new members at or after this point on disrupts the development of a cohesive working group.
