Dr. Felitti,
FYI, I submitted the following suggestion to the National Academy of Sciences' Ask a Scientist program.
When parents/caregivers engage in parenting behaviors and practices generally recognized as disrupting the healthy development of children it causes multiple problems for kids, for families, and for communities. An entirely new kind of parenting education that reaches everyone, everywhere could prevent this.
Should public health authorities develop this new kind of parenting education? How would they do it? What form would it take? How do you reach everyone... grandparents raising grandchildren, mature parents, young parents, soon-to-be parents, single people, teens, and school children?
In manufacturing there's a concept called continuous quality improvement. Shouldn't we always be striving to improve the quality of parenting? Should the teaching of parenting behaviors and practices generally recognized as supporting the healthy development of children become a permanent fixture of our culture?
They responded...
Hi David,
Thank so much for your interest and idea! We are taking a break on our series for a while but I’ll definitely pass this along to our team to consider for our next season. Have a great summer!
Best,
Sachi
and I wrote back...
Here are some scientists/physicians who may like to address this question.
Vincent Felitti, M.D., co-author of the ACE Study
Dr. Jack Shonkoff, Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School
Bruce Perry M.D., Ph.D., Senior Fellow of The ChildTrauma Academy and adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University School of Medicine in Chicago.
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D. author of The Body Keeps the Score
Gabor Mate, M.D., author of The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture
Respectfully,
David
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