What can a person learn from taking parenting classes?

I agree with Linda that a good parenting class will help you develop skills for building a positive family life. The class should provide practical ideas for handling misbehavior in ways that help children learn from their mistakes.What can a person learn from taking parenting classes?
A parenting program is usually very helpful, you learn how to care for a little child, how to feed, dress, bath, diaper and you also learn how to tell when they are sick.





For older children a person can learn how to train and discipline their child in an effective way. A class will also give an inexperienced mother the tools of parenting so that she has more confidence in her ability to be a good mother.What can a person learn from taking parenting classes?
A really good class will give you some insight into what to expect (on the average) at different ages. It should warn you not to be too hard on yourself when you make mistakes. Everyone makes mistakes.


The class can give you different coping techniques for dealing with different behaviors. For example, we never, ever spanked our kids but they did receive immediate consequences that were appropriate to their ages. The class can give you ideas on what's appropriate for the various ages.


Look at it this way. Would you want people to learn to drive by having them do their first bit of driving on the freeway or would you want them to study and learn from others successes and mistakes?
Two parts:





1) An understanding of child development and effective skills that are relevant to the age of the child.





2) Unlearning non-effective, abusive, age-inappropriate strategies, e.g. spanking, and lecturing a 3 year old.





Take a look at a few programs. They can be very helpful, especially ones like S.T.E.P. and P.E.P.
Well, first off you probably won't need to run to yahoo answers every time your baby does something you don't understand - and we'll all appreciate that.





They teach you some of the basics, which you might already know (proper diapering, swaddling, bottle making, etc), but the more important stuff is the stuff you didn't know you didn't know. Does that make sense?





I learned ways to move my baby's legs to relieve painful gas, how to hold her to nurse, and so much more.
Nothing the only way you can learn to be a better parent is to learn from your own experience not a book.