PARENTMAKING

A Practical Handbook for Teaching Parent Classes
About Babies and Toddlers
Second Edition
B. Annye Rothenberg, Ph.D. with the staff of the
Child Rearing Program at the CHC Center for Child and Family Development


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Front CoverChanges in today's society have increased parents' needs for guidance in child rearing and family growth. More parents than ever want information about their child's practical, day-to-day development and behavior as well as to learn how to become better parents.

In response to these increasing needs, more and more parenting groups and classes have been started throughout the country. Most have the same goals--to provide emotional support and child rearing information to parents--but the classes and groups differ greatly in content and approach as well as in the training of the educator. Newly developed parenting education curricula are becoming available to help instructors teach parents, but few offer a solid foundation for parent educators in child development and mental health--a necessity for successful parenting classes.

Back CoverPARENTMAKING has been a trustworthy source of parenting education information since the early 1980's. This Handbook offers a reliable and established approach for teaching new parent classes. It is based on the author's twenty years of experience developing and operating a highly successful parenting program. This program has provided educational and emotional support to more than 10,000 families with newborn to school age children. More than 20,000 parent educators and family guidance professionals worldwide have used this Handbook since it was first published in 1982. They have described it repeatedly as extraordinary valuable and as the most recommended curriculum with a developmental and mental health focus.

Revised in 1995 and still unique in the field, this second edition of PARENTMAKING enables parent educators to help new parents learn about their youngsters' development and behavior and their own new roles as parents. Written and revised by Dr. Annye Rothenberg, child/parent psychologist and her colleagues, PARENTMAKING covers every major topic usually raised by parents in new parenting groups such as crying and schedules, play and learning, limit setting, feeding and nutrition, socializing among children, adjusting to parenting, etc. Each topic, presented in age-divided sections, includes teaching goals, parents' most common questions, sample lectures, homework and handouts to give to parents, guidelines to help parents analyze and solve their child-rearing concerns, and further suggested readings. New information on teaching working parent families is also included in this edition along with resources for those working with ethnic minorities, single parents, etc.

PARENTMAKING also provides techniques for presenting information to groups, insight into parent group dynamics and management, and strategies for providing both education and emotional support in a group setting. Through these features, family guidance professionals with their diverse backgrounds and skills (such as healthcare professionals, early childhood educators, and mental health clinicians) have a resource that meets their various needs.

This handbook is based on the "tried and true" experiences of today's families. Its focus is on both children and parents, emphasizing the balance necessary for the healthy growth of the family.

Consistently highly acclaimed by leading authorities such as Brazelton, Chess, and Ames, PARENTMAKING is a MUST for all professionals in this field. Its updated thoroughness will save even the experienced group leader hundreds of hours in research and preparation time. The detailed information on the topics of frequent concern to parents also makes this a valuable resource for providing individual guidance to parents of babies and toddlers.


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