Should Parent Attend Parenting Classes Before Having Children

 

YES, and NO.

Why’s that?

Maybe to be with other first timers and create acquaintances. When raising your children it is best to seek guidance from your experienced family members, aunts, mother, mother-in-law, sisters, sister-in-laws, grandmothers, cousins, etc. My parents have 6 kids and occasionally they will attend a parenting class held in the church, so it doesn’t hurt. I am already super experienced in raising kids and the women in my family have all had many children. I have much to look up to but even I will probably attend a class or two to see what I can further learn.

So yes, if you want to learn about handling the child and if you feel that your parents or parents-in-laws or other relative don’t live around you to help or guide as much, then surely you should attend such seminars. 

Not only that, you should read such books or join online blogs which describes in detail about each and every behavior of newborns including different cries, the possible illnesses and the cures, how to make your toddler eat his food, vaccinations, etccould help you a lot in learning something new about parenting skills.

New parents should attend a parenting course, but not to learn how to raise their children.

New parents need to attend a parenting course to meet other new parents, to find out that they are not alone on this new quest, and share parenting war stories of diaper changing fails, sleep deprivation, and attempts at reentering society.

Are there great ideas in parenting workshops?

Sure!

But ultimately, just like a work conference, it’s the networking that adds the most value to your time there. You know, until they start handing out a playbook for parenting – that has universal endorsement across cultures.

In the meantime, meet your new peer group. It’s a brother/sisterhood. You will make eye contact with a stranger and know their pain, and have empathy for the bags under their eyes.

Not when we can’t reach any point of consensus on the best way to bring up children. We know some basics (don’t leave them locked in hot cars on sunny days, keep them away from sharp objects etc) but so much of it is still up in the air. You can sit two experts on child-rearing down and watch them take up totally contrary positions on some basic child-rearing issues. There isn’t a point of agreement.

 

All kids are different. I now that we have done different things when raising our second child compared to our first. What worked for child one didn’t work for child two. We had to discover this for ourselves, nobody could have told us what to do in advance.

At last, I would also like to add that from my own experience that every child is unique and you would feel that some advices are getting failed while rearing your own kid.

In summary , although ultimately it is the parents who decide how to raise their children, the knowledge gained in the parenting class could play an essential role in allowing them make an informed and wise decision.

OLADIPO MUNIRUDEEN

OS/22A/0122

GEOGRAPHY (REMOTE SENSING)

FUTMINNA

KWARA STATE