Happy New Year! The Board of Supervisors has designated January as the fourth annual Positive Parenting Awareness Month in Santa Cruz County. As in years past, I’m using this month’s column to reflect on the importance of positive parenting and encourage families to use local resources that support parents, such as the Triple P — Positive Parenting Program. If you have a parenting question for next month’s column, please email me at triplep@first5scc.org.
Raising children to become confident, capable, independent human beings is the most important and fulfilling job anyone can have in their lifetime — even more important than becoming a famous athlete, a Nobel prize-winning scientist or the President of the United States, in my opinion. Sure, it’s a never-ending, around-the-clock, stressful, thankless job that doesn’t offer sick time or overtime pay. And yes, parenting comes with a lifetime supply of fears and worries about how to ensure children survive each new stage of life and make it to adulthood. But becoming a parent — whether it’s a biological, foster or adoptive parent, grandparent, and other relative or family friend raising a child — is a life-changing experience.
[For more of this story, written by Nicole M. Young, go to http://www.tpgonlinedaily.com/...ing-awareness-month/]
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