Since children don’t come with owners’ manuals, Choices Pregnancy Center offers the next best thing: parenting classes. Every new parent deserves the chance to learn how to raise their child with confidence. That’s why our personalized parenthood program offers a wide range of video lessons parents can choose from to help them succeed at their all-important job.
Customizable Parenting Classes
Every new parent approaches their role with a unique set of interests, questions, and concerns. For that reason, Choices’ advocates encourage our clients to take all the lessons they most want to learn. Our lessons cover just about every question a new parent may have.
Keep reading to discover some of the subjects we offer through our convenient streaming video classes.
Pregnancy
Parenthood begins during pregnancy. To help parents make the most of those earliest days, we offer lessons on topics like:
- Self-care for pregnant mothers
- Bonding with your baby before birth
- Healthy nutrition for Baby’s best start in life
- Effects of substances (drugs, alcohol, household chemicals, etc.) on developing babies
- What to expect in each trimester
- …and other pregnancy insights
Caring for a Baby
It can feel a bit scary to be responsible for a tiny, helpless human being. So we help grow parents’ confidence with classes on how to care for infants starting at birth, including:
- What to expect in Baby’s first few weeks
- Breastfeeding
- Dealing with pregnancy/birth complications
- Infant hygiene
- Handling early sleep patterns
- Understanding what Baby is trying to tell you
- And many more…
Parenting Situations
Part of each unique parent’s experience of parenthood is shaped by other relationships that involve their child. Former partners, the child’s biological parent and siblings, and grandparents—all of them influence how parents get to carry out their role. So we provide lessons that help new parents find their ways through situations like:
- Single parenting
- Co-parenting with ex-partners
- Parenting together as a couple
- Parenting differently than your parents did
- Re-building family relationships
- Navigating custody and parental visitation
Child Development
Knowing what is normal at each stage of a child’s development helps parents be more patient with their children’s “childish behaviors.” Our child development lessons educate parents in areas like the following:
- What to expect during each three-month stage of Year One
- Toddler developmental milestones from 12-36 months
- Dealing with tantrums, whining, and other troubling behaviors
Informed parents gain an additional benefit: They can spot an area in which their child seems to be lagging behind normal expectations. Then they can confidently seek help finding a cause for the delay and do what’s needed to support their child’s continued growth.
Improving Life Skills
Many new parents have their first child before they even know how to manage their own lives well. Parents deserve support as they obtain the skills it takes to be a successful adult leading a family. Our classes help new parents learn the following skills and more:
- Household management
- How to find and keep a job
- Money management
- Forming healthy relationships
- Dealing with anger and frustration
- Protecting children from harm
- Communication
- Addressing addiction issues
Why Our Clients Love Our Parenting Classes
When a pregnancy test comes back positive, and a little person shows up on a woman’s ultrasound scan, the first thought she has may be, “I’m not ready for this!”
We get it. Most of us never feel completely ready to be parents. It’s a big responsibility. But we believe in you. With support, encouragement, and no-cost supplies from our Boutique, we believe you can be an excellent parent. So that’s why we’re here. For you.
New parents have told us that taking classes through our Earn While You Learn program helped them go from “panicked” to “calm.” Anxious parents who never observed good parenting “learned how to be a better parent” than their own parents were. Invariably, clients in our parenthood program have said Choices Pregnancy Center is where they “feel supported and encouraged” to be the best parents they can be.
Learn to Be the Parent Who Makes Your Child Proud
With all this FREE parenting education and support available, you can become the kind of parent your child needs—and wants. The kind they’ll be proud of.
So come start your educational journey with us. Enjoy choosing your own short streaming video lessons, selected to meet your needs and concerns. One of our friendly advocates will be there to answer your questions, clarify concepts, and help you keep growing—through pregnancy, birth, and beyond.