It has been a year since it was announced here that a National Effective Parenting Initiative (NEPI) had been started to help make both effective parenting and parenting education national priorities.
Much progress has been made, including having generated a White House Briefing on a proposal to have a Department of Effective Parenting that would assist all parents and all communities in raising healthy and achieving young people. NEPI now has three membership programs with many membership benefits and related newsletters. There is now a membership program for Parents, for Professionals who deliver services to children, parents and families, and for Organizations that help parents. All of these programs are available on the NEPI website, www.effectiveparentingusa.org.
Right now myself and other leaders of NEPI are trying to raise consciousness among the candidates for the presidency that they should be including the needs of the more than 100 million voters who are parents in what they are proposing to do for our nation. Up to this time, none of the candiates have even commented on the importance of helping America's parents in the awesome job of raising the next generation.
The candidates and their staffs would be wise to read the new book I just published on parenting, The Positive Parent: Raising Healthy, Happy and Successful Children, Birth through Adolescence. There they would learn about the pressures that today's parents are under, the research that clarifies what is effective parenting, the tremendous costs in human suffering and tax dollars when we do not systematically provide parents with the preparation and training they need, and the programs that now exist to help parents to be as effective and sensitive as possible. They would also learn about the existence of NEPI and the growing number of individuals and organizations that believe it should be the birthright of every child to be raised effectively and humanely by loving and skillful parents who receive the best possible parenting education and support.
It seems like commonsense that those who aspire to lead our nation should be also inspire and assist the leaders of our nation's families, parents, to do the best job possible.
What do you think?
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