Being first time parents is one of the most beautiful gifts in your life. You can almost visualize your lovely baby smiling and happy face. However, some parents have no idea about how to be a good parent. Giving a new life is not enough because there is lots of knowledge that is important to parenting. It is crucial for parents to seek help and advice. Parents can find this information in parenting classes. Such classes give useful information about parenting and also for parents themselves. .
First of all, it is very difficult to take care of kids because they cannot express what they want or need. At this time you can avoid this embarrassing situation by taking parenting classes. High school should offer mandatory classes on parenting skills. These classes can help you to understand the basic baby care such as bathing, changing and breastfeed your baby as well as emergency care. "Parents can learn a great deal about discipline and handling behavioral problems, how to raise healthy and happy children and how to balance respect and responsibilities" (HealthGuidance). This research show how helpful is parenting classes. You can learn also how to interact with other parents and share ideas. Meeting other parents who might be facing same problems, could be a great way to discuss ideas and make decisions. In many occasions parenting can be very stressful and these classes could help you to manage stress and anger. Therefore as taking parenting classes, parent can avoid serious problem caused by lack of knowledge about children. .
Secondly, bad parenting can create a huge misery that affects large number of innocents and often gets passed on from progeny to progeny. Here in USA, tax- exemptions for dependent children encourage taxpayers to have children. But there is no state program to determine who should be parent or to provide basic training in the principles of effecting parenting.