Parenting and Families #CT407

Grades: 9, 10, 11, and 12 

Level:  College Prep

Credit: .50 credit

This course is designed to help students develop an understanding of parenting in modern America.  Effective parenting skills and research-based strategies for working with children and families will be explored.  The course emphasizes parent-child relations, discipline challenges and techniques, family systems theory, communication, and nature/nurture issues in child development. Students will have the opportunity to choose a contemporary issue important to them and develop an action research project that will have an impact on the field.