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Welcome to The Educated Parent.com

This site is dedicated to all parents who seek to be, and do, their best for their children. A companion to the The Educated Parent: Recent Trends in Raising Children (by Dr. Joseph Sclafani), this site contains relevant information about parenting as well as periodic updates from Dr. Sclafani about issues that are important to all parents.

Why Read the Book?

Parenting is a unique set of behaviors based upon values rooted in ethnicity, culture, and family-of-origin.

No book can tell people how to parent, yet The Educated Parent provides information upon which parents can form well-informed, research-grounded approaches to raising their children within their family value systems. (more reasons to read the book...)

Excerpts from the Book

From Chapter 1:

"Fortunately, being a parent does not mean you have to always be perfect, 100% consistent, or all-wise in order to raise a healthy, functional child. The phrase, 'good enough parenting' has been coined to refer to the fact that a parent simply must be that - good enough, but not perfect. This revelation is a great guilt-reducer. Many parents have a number of specific things they have done or said that they would like to take back. Or there are things never done that they wished they had made time for. The good news is that your children are generally forgiving and that you usually have to go out of your way to create permanent harm or interfere with normal development." (more excerpts...)

Parent Information Update

Fall 2004 - Protecting Your Child/Teen in Cyberspace and Monitoring the Media

As discussed in Chapter One of The Educated Parent, child protection is the first role for every parent. The topic of internet exposure to children and teens is addressed in Chapter Eight. Recall that the internet can be a great source of information and an asset to your child's education. Now that American households are increasingly on-line, and children are drawn to the power and variety of the internet, child protection must address the downside of the internet — "cyber dangers." Cyber dangers include exposure to hate content and inappropriate sexual materials, access to drugs and alcohol, and the danger of sexual predators who work hard to lure innocent, unattended and unprotected children and teens. This update will focus on protecting children from on-line predators. (more...)