In The News
November 2002 Boston - PARENTS PAPER
Cathy Elsik in the column Parenting People featured PARENTS FORUM under the headline Helping Parents Air Their Feelings and quoted founder Eve Sullivan, "As parents we teach children to process emotions... We tell them it's OK to feel angry, OK to feel sad and OK to feel afraid. And, in order to parents to do that, they must get comfortable on their own emotional roller coaster first."
November 2002 Boston - PARENTS PAPER
Cathy Elsik in the column Parenting People featured PARENTS FORUM under the headline Helping Parents Air Their Feelings and quoted founder Eve Sullivan, "As parents we teach children to process emotions... We tell them it's OK to feel angry, OK to feel sad and OK to feel afraid. And, in order to parents to do that, they must get comfortable on their own emotional roller coaster first."
September 2002 Newsweek
September 30, 2002
NEWSWEEK had this letter on the topic of parenting education, relating it to a review of a new psychology book Authentic Happiness
May 2008 - USA TODAY Letter
"Offer Parents Support"
It is troubling that the gender and education debate mentions parents only in the context of their financial contributions to children's education ("Yes, university women, there is a boy problem," Our view; Girls gain, and so do boys," Opposing view, May 21). test
USA TODAY's view cites wealthy parents' ability to find a college willing to accept their under-achieving sons. The opposing view makes a similar point, noting that disparities in family income are related to differences in academic success.
But parents do so much more than write checks. Deeper than our society's "boy problem" is a parenting problem.
One key piece of the solution to the educational, social and emotional challenges that families face today has to be parenting services.
Parenting education needs to become a default setting in human services: a stigma-free activity, accessible and affordable, that mothers and fathers take part in routinely.
Parenting education could be preventive or remedial, but either way, it is a necessity. The sooner parents and policymakers alike get this message, the better off all our children will be.