Parenting Class Offered at UMaine
Contact: at UMaine Cooperative Extension, Judith Graham, 207-581-3104, or Ruth Brown, 207-581-3448
ORONO– Becoming a parent can be one of life’s most difficult but rewarding challenges. To help people who are planning to start a family, University of Maine Cooperative Extension will offer a new course, Parents-to-Be, in June.
The course is designed to help adults get ready to parent by focusing on their development as they learn about parenting skills.
“Throughout our lives, we follow a natural rhythm of growth to upgrade earlier developmental tasks,” says Judith Graham, Ph.D., Cooperative Extension educator and human development specialist. “Parents-to-Be goes deeper than many ‘information and skills’ parent education programs, in that it reflects a more complex perspective of human development, addressing the parent’s development as much as the parent-child relationship.”
The course will run from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the Bangor Room of the UMaine Memorial Union on selected Tuesday and Thursday evenings: June 1, 3, 8, 17, 22, and 24.
The registration fee is $30 per person ($45 per couple if sharing one book) and includes the book Growing Up Again: Parenting Ourselves, Parenting Our Children by Jean Illsley Clarke, a program notebook and all program materials. Limited financial aid is available.
Registration can be done by phone or e-mail to Ruth Brown, 207-581-3448, rbrown@umext.maine.edu. Fee payments with name, address and phone number can be sent to her at UMaine Cooperative Extension, 5717 Corbett Hall, Rm. 306, Orono, ME 04469-5717.