Parenting Principles
The Gift of Parenthood
When a child is born to you or adopted into your family—whether you are married, cohabitating, or single—you become a parent. But parenting is an evolving discipline. So the question is: Are you growing into productive parents?
The Begin with the Children Parenting Program is unique from most other parenting programs, because our free gift to you is a path to productive parenthood. Our educational program provides parents with well-researched ideas, information, and principles each month to help you grow and adapt to parenting challenges in an organized way. Our program is organized to help you to learn each stage of parenthood and complete the tasks within each one.
Our Parenting Principles
Our entire program is grounded in three timeless principles – present in every stage, every month:
Love Every parenting decision should be rooted in unconditional care and emotional connection.
Personal Responsibility Children learn best through choice and consequence. We help you model and teach this skill early and often.
Noble Values & Virtues From kindness to integrity, we encourage parents to instill values that help children become thoughtful, productive members of society.
Grounded in Research
The Begin With The Children program aligns with key findings from two of the most respected parenting studies of our time, Parenting Matters – National Academy of Medicine and Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study.
Parenting Matters –
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine
This comprehensive research report highlights three key actions that help children thrive:
Providing nurturing, responsive relationships
Creating safe, stable environments
Using positive, developmentally appropriate guidance
Begin with the Children brings these principles to life through monthly KinderKronicle messages that match your child’s age and needs.
Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study
This long-term study showed that positive parental involvement, especially in early childhood, leads to better outcomes in health, education, and emotional development, even in families facing economic or relational challenges.
That’s why we focus on early, consistent, and practical support for all parents – no matter their background or circumstances.
The Begin with the Children program is not just a fad or a cool idea.
The program presents time-tested principles that really make a lasting, positive difference. This program teaches and reinforces parenting principles in quick and easy-to-read articles.
These programs either remind us of good practices, validate what we are striving to do, or encourage us to study and learn more about parenting principles that will really work.
What the Begin with the Children program is doing to strengthen families (and through them, our society) is wonderful and we need more of it in the world
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We believe that extraordinary parenting creates extraordinary communities. By nurturing parents, we nurture the future.
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