Articles of category "parenting skills"

Parenting skill is not something we are born with. We can study up on the subject all we want, but once that baby is born, it's a crash course in what's really important. Effective parenting skills aren't always the ones you hear about, either. No one tells you that as important a parenting skill as discipline is, the ability to talk in funny voices is up there, too. Read more about learning parenting skill as you go along.

When our parents were born, parenting skills were taught from extended family. If parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles didn't live in the same house, they usually lived within a few miles. They were certainly always available to impact a lot of knowledge to the younger generation on the subjects of pregnancy, child birth, and raising children. Now, we have become such a transient society; it is rare that the extended family is even in the same state.