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Parenting Workshops

Parenting Workshops

In most areas of our life, we wouldn't dream of just throwing ourselves into something with no advance preparation and seeing what happens. We'd ask for advice, learn and discover strategies to perform better, and practice, practice, practice.

Yet for some reason, we feel hesitant to take the same approach to parenting. There's a perception that mothers and fathers should just know what to do naturally-that everything will fall into place if we just love our children enough. The catch? It's not always so intuitive which decisions are the right ones.

Parenting Classes Can Make a Big Difference

If you want to set your child up for success, it can be enormously helpful to take a parenting class or attend a workshop. Parenting classes can help you:

1. Master the Basics

Most parents, no matter their background or socioeconomic standing, are somewhat frightened when they welcome their first child into the world. Learning to feed and care for an infant is one challenge you'll face. Preparing your child to enter and thrive in school is another.

Parenting classes can help parents learn more about what to expect in the coming years and prepare for each developmental stage. Since confident, decisive parents tend to raise confident, secure children, parenting classes can give you a much-needed skill set and help decrease your feelings of anxiety. Mastering the basics is well worth the time you might spend in class.

2. Stay Abreast of the Latest Research

As a busy parent, it can be hard to stay up-to-date on the latest scientific findings-but it's so important to learn what you should be doing to set your children up for success.

For example, researchers have found that it's easy for parents to accidentally cause harm with how they praise their children. Many parents instinctively tell their children that they are smart when they do something impressive or right on the first try-but research has shown that this can actual

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