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The nurturant parent model is a parenting style, built upon an underlying value system, [citation needed] that goes in contrast with the strict father model.Each system reflects a contrasting value system in parenthood, i.e. conservative parenting and liberal parenting.
Parenting education and support has always existed (e.g. through informal kinship and family networks), but formal recognition of the need to support parents was established through the International Year of the Family in 1994. [1] In understanding the history of parenting programmes, it is necessary to highlight two global shifts.
Parent Effectiveness Training (P.E.T.) is a parent education program based on the Gordon Model by Thomas Gordon.Gordon taught the first P.E.T. course in 1962 and the courses proved to be so popular with parents that he began training instructors throughout the United States to teach it in their communities.
Parenting refers to the intricacies of raising a child and not exclusively for a biological relationship. [1] The most common caretakers in parenting are the biological parents of the child in question. However, a caretaker may be an older sibling, step-parent, grandparent, legal guardian, aunt, uncle, other family members, or a family friend. [2]
A parenting style is a pattern of behaviors, attitudes, and approaches that a parent uses when interacting with and raising their child. The study of parenting styles is based on the idea that parents differ in their patterns of parenting and that these patterns can have a significant impact on their children's development and well-being.
Triple P, or the "Positive Parenting Program", was created by Professor Matthew R. Sanders and colleagues, in 2001 at the University of Queensland in Australia and evolved from a small “home-based, individually administered training program for parents of disruptive preschool children” into a comprehensive preventive intervention program (p. 506). [1]
The roots of family literacy as an educational method come from the belief that “the parent is the child’s first teacher.” [1] Studies have demonstrated that adults who have a higher level of education tend to not only become productive citizens with enhanced social and economic capacity in society, [2] but their children are more likely to be successful in school. [3]
In 1990, a report by the U.S. Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect drew attention to the problem of child abuse in the country. [5] After the report, home visitation programs in the U. S. started to be developed by several organizations, such as Healthy Families America, Parents as Teachers, and Nurse-Family Partnership. [5]