If We Don't Start Offering Support...Someone Else Will! The "Expert" Myth

Gotta go to class this afternoon, but if you ever doubted the importance of providing parent support or nurturing quality parent-school relationships...here's something you need to see.

Research has shown that parents, especially first time parents, reach out to those around them for support and advice regarding raising their child, child development issues, etc. When that support isn't there, they move on to that which is most accessible to them--namely what they see or hear on television or in the media.

This is especially scary when "experts" from television, magazines, often don't carry many credentials....

This is today's scary example: Real Housewives of New York City's Alex McCord and Simon van Kempen--who are writing a parenting book titled, "The Urban Parent: Family Adventures from a Real House in New York City." Don't believe me....read the article here.