"A marvelous and rich resource for those who train parent educators. This comprehensive guide offers a step-by-step exploration of methods, materials and issues involved in the training process. It sensitizes parent educators to many issues, extremely thorough, an enormous task done very well."

Adele Faber, Author of How to Talk so Kids will Listen
and Listen so Kids will Talk, Siblings Without Rivalry, and others

"A lot of thought and effort went into this book; extremely helpful to anyone giving a parenting series. The course will be very effective."

Louise Bates Ames, Ph.D., Associate Director
Gesell Institute
New Haven, Connecticut
Author of Your One Year Old, (Two Year Old), etc.
He Hit Me First and many others

"PARENTMAKING EDUCATORS TRAINING PROGRAM is an excellent and much needed guide for the training of parent educators. The section on temperament is very important."

Stella Chess, M.D., Child Psychiatrist
New York University Medical Center and
Author of Know Your Child, Temperament and Development
Principles in Practice of Child Psychiatry, and others

"The PARENTMAKING EDUCATORS TRAINING PROGRAM provides a well thought-out roadmap to constructing and conducting parenting programs. The authors anticipate questions that parent educators will have at all stages of running parent groups and provide in-depth strategies and approaches for those preparing to educate and energize groups of parents in their child-rearing roles. It is a delight to find such a wealth of experience put into a very user-friendly format."

Linda Lipton
Former Director, Family Resource Coalition
Chicago, Illinois

"An invaluable book. It is the most complete, step by step book that I've seen for training parent educators. It covers every facet of a parent education program in detail and with depth rarely seen in this topic. A delight because of its broad scope, drawing background information from a variety of well-known and respected researchers and because of its attention to step by step procedures without espousing one particular teaching program and its thoughtful consideration of parents."

Lee McKay, President
California Association for the Education of Young Children (CAEYC)

"This new volume, to be used in conjunction with Dr. Rothenberg's first highly acclaimed and successful book, PARENTMAKING, meet the every increasing need for quality parent education. In this new work, parent education leaders are guided through the many steps it takes to organize and conduct successful workshops for parent educators. This manual in conjunction with the original volume also provides excellent material for parent educators on specific and important content, e.g., limit-setting, sleep issues, sibling relationships. It will be especially useful in helping parenting guidance professionals receive training in their own community. In this new book, as in the first one, Annye Rothenberg demonstrates her knowledge of and sensitivity to the needs of parents of infants and young children."

Rose M. Bromwich, Ed.D. Professor o Educational Psychology and
Author of Working with Parents and Infants

"This is a wonderful program. It's comprehensive, concrete, well structured, and reads easily. It is amazing to see all the work and caretaking efforts that has been integrated into this program."

Lori Slepian, Co-Director
National Association of Mothers' Centers
Hempstead, New York

"The PARENTMAKING EDUCATORS TRAINING PROGRAM is one of the best organized, best written, truly informative resources I have come across. It is based on what parents really want from educational classes and teaches parent educators the skills to be excellent facilitators. Good teachers/parent educators are "made"; thank you for making better parent educators possible with the PARENTMAKING EDUCATORS TRAINING PROGRAM."

Donna Newton, Director
Parenting Center and Children's Hospital
New Orleans, Louisiana

"The PARENTMAKING EDUCATORS TRAINING PROGRAM will be a welcome addition to the much used PARENTMAKING textbook written by Annye Rothenberg and her colleagues. The new PETP will be eagerly sought by Minnesota parent educators as it enhances the use of the first PARENTMAKING book and provides an extremely useful, helpful and detailed training program for parent educators in developing group process skills and planning parent group discussions on topics most popular with parents of young children. The accompanying videotapes enhance this skills development course by demonstrating experiential learning activities to be used as part of the training program."

Betty Cooke, State Co-Coordinator
Early Childhood Family Education
St. Paul, Minnesota

"The PARENTMAKING EDUCATORS TRAINING PROGRAM is an outstanding piece of work. What is most impressive is how this incredible wealth of material has been presented in a user-friendly, coherent and dynamic way. The PETP provides a clear guide for trainers to teach others those very special skills needed to be successful as parent educators. The manner in which the material is presented to the trainer/trainee parallels the manner in which successful parent educators provide programs/services to parents and families. The "voice" is respectful, the information relevant, the style is one of give and take."

Ellen Hyman, Assistant Director
Birth to Three
Eugene, Oregon

"This is a wonderful training manual. The topics and the training focus are valuable when working with sophisticated parenting groups or a group of adolescent parents. I feel like the authors were peeking in on some groups I've led and giving me tools to help me smooth the edges of (and in some cases, to rethink) my work in the group setting."

Debbie Reilly
"Parents as Teachers" Parent Educator
Clayton, Missouri

"At this time when our society 's need for excellent parenting education is greater than ever before, Annye Rothenberg and Children's Health Council have made their highly regarded training expertise available nationwide. This well organized, complete, detailed and clear curriculum is augmented by videotapes that further clarify and illustrate the application of the material. Any parent educator, experienced or novice, will benefit from this program.

Penny Simkin, PT
Childbirth Educator and Author of Pregnancy, Childbirth and the Newborn; also The Birth Partner

"An absolutely terrific contribution to the professional development resources available for parent educators. We commend the efforts and the resultant outstanding product. The program covers not only the obvious how tos of parent education, but more importantly, the complex and challenging issues which tend to arise in working with parents. This work will enhance the skills we need to effectively inform and support the parenting process."

Mary Jo Liberstein, Ph.D. Director
The Family Center
Clayton, Missouri