What People Say About Our Curricula and Training Parenting Now!

Make Parenting A Pleasure (MPAP)

“Make Parenting A Pleasure is one of the ... most effective programs to improve parenting available today.”
Karol Kumpfer, Ph.D., Project Director, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Strengthening Families Project

“With two-earner families and the rise in single parenting, parents need all the help they can get. The Make Parenting A Pleasure material gives struggling parents that extra hand. Cleverly designed, comprehensive, and accessible to families of all backgrounds, this series of modules should prove invaluable in helping parents become not only more effective, but also more fulfilled in their roles as caregivers.”
Dr. Edward Zigler, Sterling Professor of Psychology, Yale University

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Haga de la Paternidad un Placer

"Haga de la Paternidad un Placer es un buen material de apoyo y excelente recurso para el padre y otros miembros de la familia cuya lengua native es el espanol. La forma y el estilo del espanol empleado en esta pubicacion sin duda hara del material mas facil para el usuario."

Victor Rodriguez, Communication Specialist, Southwest Educational Development Laboratory

"El programa es muy bueno. Aprendemos como entender a nuestros hijos. Tenemos diferente tipo de educacion y aqui aprendemos para ser mejores padres cada dia. Yo se lo recomiendo a todos los padres Mexicanos y de otros paises. Nos olvidamos Del estres, aqui viene uno a relajarse. A Sentarse a compartir con otros padres sin Pensar en las penas y en la vida tan dificil Que nos ha tocado vivir."

A Participant in Haga de la Paternidad un Placer

"I found the language to be very clear and easy to read and at the 5 th grade level that most of our Latino immigrant parents of the area could easily read and comprehend."

Eduardo Angulo, Salem/Keizer Coalition for Equality Chairman

"People in the building said they'd never heard such laughter and positive energy as during our Make Parenting A Pleasure classes! Thank you."

Gil Nicholson-Nelson, MSW, LCSW, Marion County Health Department

"We use Make Parenting A Pleasure with our native Hawaiian parents, and also with incarcerated parents. It has enough flexibility to adapt to specific communities; it is interactive and keeps the parents really interested. I like how easy it is to deliver; it is very simple to teach and yet the parents get so much out of it. We have used this curriculum in our most isolated rural Hawaiian communities and it translated so Well, they just loved it. It matches a lot with native Hawaiian values and helps us with our goal of strengthening families."

Momi Guerro Durand, Executive Director, Keiki o ka Aina Preschool, Oahu, HI

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Parenting: The First Three Years

“Thank you for sending [me] Parenting: The First Three Years. It is really a great curriculum and I am proud to see it. Best regards.”
T. Berry Brazelton, MD, Brazelton Touchpoints Center

"I have reviewed the curriculum and I think it is wonderful! The content is excellent, the presentation is effective and creative, and the handouts are useful adjuncts to the group sessions."
Chet Johnson MD, Developmental Disabilities Center

"The material is excellent ... I would not hesitate to recommend this curriculum to programs that run parent groups. Your curriculum will be a wonderful resource to parent group facilitators."
Helen Reif, Manager of Training, Healthy Families America

"Good structures to sessions and good activities to do with children throughout! All the topics ... are great. Good points for facilitators about diversity in families. Love the BabyWatch ideas!"
Nancy Seibel, ZERO TO THREE

"FABULOUS AND EXCITING! Congratulations on a job well-done. I like that it completely engages the parents and is family oriented, taking into account everyone's perspectives. The topics covered are relevant, appropriate for the age, and developmentally appropriate and sequenced both in regards to children's and parents' development. The approach is interactive, giving parents a chance to reflect, to respond, to work in smaller groups (even one-on-one) with other parents. Sensitive topics like discipline are handled openly, honestly,
positively, and sensitively."
Merle G. Greene, Early Childhood Education Director, HIPPYUSA (Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool
Youngsters)

"Excellent concept of building on a set of basic skills that parents can then draw upon in adapting to the child's ongoing developmental changes ... I love the idea of establishing a "learning family."
Deborah Daro, Ph.D., Research Fellow and Associate Professor, The Chapin Hall Center for Children at the
University of Chicago

"You are to be congratulated for the work. It should be a very good contribution to the field."
Kathryn E. Barnard, Adjunct Professor of Psychology, Spence Endowed Professor in Nursing, University of
Washington

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Parenting Now! Curriculum

“It is simple enough that any parent could grasp it, but deep enough that even very skilled
parents should take it.”
Kent D. Boles, Pleasant Hill School District Parent Association

“The Parenting Now! Curriculum makes being a parent and leader interesting and fun. It’s a tremendous resource for our children’s future.”
Deb Holloway, West Lane Antiviolence Coalition

“Intensively positive and practical program.”
Cynthia Schwarm, Parent Trainer

“Parenting Now! Curriculum offers a wonderful, well prepared, and easy-to-use curriculum with very useful exercises and tools! It is ready to present, I don’t have to reinvent the wheel or add outside materials.”
Cathy Dupont, Lane Community College Jobs Training and Development Instructor

“I appreciated identifying core values as a basis for the rest of the content. In every session it always came back to that.”
Debra Caitlin, Sacred Heart Medical Center

“Parenting Now! Curriculum is a fabulous resource for churches. The materials are very well written, easy to use and highly beneficial to new parents and anyone who wants to improve their parenting skills. Churches with existing small group ministries will find it very easy to adapt to their program. For those seeking to start a small group for young families, Parenting Now! Curriculum is an excellent resource to get you going.”
Daniel E.H. Bryant, Senior Minister, First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)

Letters of support for Parenting Now! Curriculum from the faith-based community:

First Christian Church

Berean Baptist Church

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Curricula Training

“This was a very ‘safe’ environment. The level of respect and trust and learning were high.”
Cameron Hubbe, Training participant

“I loved the style and the experience of both instructors.”
Anonymous, Training participant

“I was extremely satisfied. [The trainers] are both very clear and concise in their teaching styles.”
Salli-Jo Osborn, Training participant

“Couldn’t be better—clear, stayed on schedule, good sense of humor. Don’t change a thing.”
Shelley, Training participant

“I am excited to start teaching the class and using the information in my Healthy Start visits. I was really coming to a wall with parents who have too much going on to learn about development.”
Cala Fuller, Training participant

“[The instructors] were well educated and did a wonderful job presenting the material—very up beat and positive. I had a wonderful learning experience. Thank you.”
Anonymous, Training participant

“By the time I am involved with families their stress is major. It is far better to prevent than to deal with [stress.] Everything will be useful as it deals with real life and real problems.”
Lee Farming, Training participant

“I feel that this program will fit well into my work with clients.”
Jessica Brar, Training participant

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“Thank you for sending the box of Parenting: The First Three Years. It is really a great curriculum and I am proud to see it. Best regards.”

T. Berry Brazelton, MD, Brazelton Touchpoints Center

Read the Parenting: The First Three Years book review in the Permanente Journal

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