From Promoting Positive Parenting Practices through Parenting Education
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The Raising Texas vision is that all Texas children will thrive in nurturing family environments. To this end, Raising Texas works to increase the availability of comprehensive parenting education services in the community to support and enhance young children’s healthy development and school readiness as well as to increase the availability of comprehensive family support services that address the stressors that may impair or that affect the ability of families to nurture and support the healthy development of their children.
Parenting education is closely linked to parenting support. However, both help parents improve their competency and confidence. Parenting education is the provision of specific knowledge and child rearing skills to parents and other caregivers (Mahoney et al., 1999), with the objective of enhancing a child’s health and development. The goal of family support is to help parents or primary caregivers develop and utilize available psychological and material resources to help their families and themselves.
Raising Texas has developed a Parent Education Matrix to help compare the variety of parent education programs.
