Current Practices in Parent Education

NPEN is pleased to link with emerging work related to parenting and parenting education. These documents have been peer reviewed and determined to be pieces that fit within our mission to "build the field of parenting education" for conversation, controversy, adaptation or amendment
Please feel free to contact the authors themselves for additional information.

• Ginott's Method of Parent Education
• Best Practices for Parent Education Programs Seeking to Prevent Child Abuse

Your emerging work can appear here! NPEN is Looking for Current Practices in parenting education

In an effort to build an NPEN web site that will be useful to parenting educators, we are collecting your new ideas and practices that can be helpful for others in the field. This provides a space to share as well as post your great work! Please consider this! Because NPEN is a voluntary organization with essentially no funding to support the critical networking we need to do as a profession to "grow" the field, we ask that you post your document to your web site and refer us to it for review. There are also many free sites as well that can host your work.

1. Please develop a one page (1,000 word) brief that would be useful to parenting educators. It can be about any of the following topics:

• unique teaching strategy
• great new resource in parenting education
• interpretation of a recent research report
• cool ice breaker to use with parents
• a review of a great book that is helpful to you as a parenting educator (new or old)
• summary of a "best practice" in parenting education
• staff management strategy
• staff development concept

To be uniform, we ask that you write it according to this outline:

1. Title
2. Summary or Content or Concept
3. Practices or applications associated with the idea
4. Availability (if a resource) or contact (if someone would need further information)

2. Post your practice or idea to any website. (If you are new to this, here are some free sites that will host your temporary document. Saving your document as HTML in your word document will work for posting). Here are a few free sites; or with a search engine, locate your own free space by searching on "free web space." There will be instructions indicating exactly what to do. This is not an endorsement of these sites.

• http://www.freeservers.com/
• http://www.freewebspace.net/
• http://www.dreamwater.com/
  

3. E-mail the location ( or URL) to be reviewed. The review criteria are:

• The current practice or idea meets the core principles of NPEN
• The current practice or idea advance or contributes to the field of parenting education (as opposed to parenting)
• Contributes uniquely to parenting education or for parenting educators and not widely available on the internet on this subject.
• Idea is clear and concisely conveyed.

4. Three reviewers will determine if the item will be posted to the NPEN sharing webspace for others to use in their parenting education work. You will be notified of the location for your posting.