Do you want to be killed or loved by your kids? This is very easy to answer; of course all of us want to be loved by our kids. Even if you do not think that your own children can kill you, it is true. The meaning of kill in this paragraph is not the phisical action, our children can kill us with attitude or behavior. If we can teach our kids how to be good people in life, why don’t we do it? Parenting is the most difficult job in the world and nobody teaches them. In contrast now there are programs that give parenting classes. These classes can help us to know how to handle our children. Parents should take parenting classes because with need to know how to deal with problems, teach values and live a life that changes all the time.
First, life has changes as time changes. Nowadays life is facing a lot of new problems such as violence, drugs, teenager’s pregnancy, diseases and psicological problems. In contrast these problems are new so in the past parents did not need someone who teach them how to be parent. Parents should take parenting classes to learn how to deal with these new problems. All over the world is very easy to see violence like in the television programs, video games, cartoons, movies and news about the war in Iraq. All the kids have access to see these kind of programs so parents should know more about their children what do they play, see and listen. Children need to know about the world, as a result there are some strategies that parents can use to talk with them about it. For example, a father buys a video game for his child because he was crying for it. The father will buy the game without looking what kind of game is. The video game may have violence and it can imply bad attitude in the kids. For this type of situations parents need to take classes to know how to deal with kids and which kind of games are good for kids. Teenager pregnancy is a big concern in the U.S. because there are a lot of teenagers who get pregnant and do not know how to take care of themselves. There are parents very young, they need to learn many things about a baby. Adams (2007), “Raising children is one of the toughest and most fulfilling jobs in the world - and the one for which you may feel the least prepared”. There are many people who do not care about parenting classes because they think that they do not need it. Although be parents is the hardest job in the world you will get a lot of unique experiences, happy moments and a huge pride of your kids. Teenager’s life is very difficult there are many changes phisical and psicological. Teenager’s parents need to learn how to take care of their kids, even though they do not take care by their own. Teenager’s parents are the main teachers for teenager parents but also a parenting class will be very useful. Teenagers need to be responsable of their actions and know the responsability that they received with their child. Problems will never end so we need to deal with these and control them. Parenting classes will teach us how do we need to teach our children as a result our children will be better citizens.
Second values are the base of the perfect world. Values affect in humans in a positive way such as moral, spiritual, social and cultural. In these days we can see how people are losing their values or even worse they did not know about values. Values are taught at first by our parents. We learn all kinds of values in our home and we improve those outside the home. It will be wonderfull if all the parents know how to teach values to their children. All the people will have values and the life will be better. For example, on the school if all the kids have values like responsability, respect, honesty and friendship the classroom will be more succesful than another where the kids do not have values. The values of respect, dignity and honesty help us to finish with many crimes such as robbery, falsification and kidnapping. The age of the people does not matter if you want to learn values. Those parents who do not teach their children values yet, now we know it is time to do it. Parenting classes will tell us how to do teach values to older children.
Third most of the parents make many mistakes. The parents do not know that they are doing things wrong because nobody teach how to be a good father or a good mother. All the information that they can get is by their parents. It is not faith that the fist child of a family become the experiment without idea of what should they do in some circumstances. That is why parenting classes will have a huge impact in the parent’s life. These classes can fit in every part of the world because every part of the world has people that in certain moment will be parents. These classes need to be teach by professional people who have experience with this. Parents not only handle with their children when they are babies they need to handle with them all their lives. One of the most difficult stage is adolescence when teenagers change phisical and phicological.
Foster (2005), "When kids get to be teenagers, they think differently than children". This is another important subjet that parents should know because it is very difficult for many parentes to talk about certain topics such as sexsuality.
The opponents say that parents should not take parenting classes because there is not time to do it. However, this argument is incomplete because even though there is not time for parenting classes we have to do it because is time spend for our children. Halsey, C. (n.d.), “Many people believe parenting should come naturally but sometimes we all need a bit of help, which is when parenting classes can be useful”.For some people is easier to handle with their children because of their own character. In the other hand parenting is a very difficult process for many people, that is why they should take parenting classes. For example, Some people are not pacient with their children so with some lesson they can learn how to be pacient. Parenting classes is not a waste of time; we can meet more couples and have more experiences. Parenting classes will not be for too long, these classes will be for the time that you need to learn. For example, a couple can go to parenting classes and with a few lessons can be done. Some parents do not need too much time but some of them do because they have more children or teenagers who are the most difficult age. Children would notice that their parents go to school as they do. For example, children will be surprised that their parents go to school too. Children will go to school excited and they will talk to their friends about classes for parents. As a result more parents will know about it and join these classes. Parenting classes can be lessons, courses and also online meetings. These online meetings will be with an online teacher that you can ask questions and he will give you the answers,
Parenting classes will help us more than we think. People shoul think about the future of their children. If all the people agree having good children, we need to star teaching values, good attitudes, behavior and friendship. We will never be perfects but if we ca be a little bit better we should try. Many thinks we can learn from parenting classes and also our children teach us many thinks than we did not know about before. In the future the people will have values, will know what is good and bad, will be less violence and the whole world will be a little bit better. Parents and almost parents should think about this situation and what future do they want for their children.
References
Adams, W. (2007, January). Nine steps to more effective parenting. Retrieved
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Foster, W. (2005, February). Teens and Talk: What's a Parent to Do? Retrieved
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Halsey, C. (n.d.). Family matters-beging a parent. Retrieved January 31, 2008,
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