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PROCLAMATION FOR PREPARE TOMORROW'S PARENTS MONTH |
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WHEREAS, Prepare Tomorrow’s Parents has created
“Prepare Tomorrow’s Parents Month” to: honor and celebrate
parents; acknowledge the skills, knowledge, time, and responsibility required
daily for effective parenting; to raise public awareness of the need for
maturity and preparation for this important job; and to ask and provide resources
for everyone who has regular contact with children to do at least one activity
this month to foster parenting and nurturing skills;
WHEREAS,
changes in American life have increased parents' challenges while greatly
reducing or diminishing young people's opportunities to learn effective
parenting practices by observing and participating in family life;
WHEREAS, over
80 percent of Americans become parents, but few are prepared this critical
role: recent studies confirm that most have serious gaps in the attitudes,
knowledge, and skills required to ensure that their children thrive physically,
emotionally, and cognitively;
WHEREAS, early
experiences shape a child’s brain, impacting overall potential for
learning, relationships and mental health, and inadequate parenting has been
plainly implicated in academic failure, depression, addictions, teen pregnancy,
delinquency and violent behavior;
WHEREAS, lack
of parenting capacity and skills is a known major contributor to the yearly
abuse and neglect reports on three million U.S. children (and all those for
whom reports are not filed);
WHEREAS, abused
children are far more likely to become involved in youth and adult violence and
to pass abuse, neglect and violence on to following generations;
WHEREAS, half a
million U.S. teens give birth each year, and our country leads the developed
world in teen parenthood, while understanding the responsibilities and demands
of effective parenting helps teens postpone this role until they are mature and
ready;
WHEREAS, Parenting
Education for young people in home, schools, and youth programs helps prevent
child abuse by developing empathy, listening, problem-solving and coping
skills, and an understanding of child development and appropriate discipline;
WHEREAS,
Parenting Education for young people helps create more caring, cooperative and
non-violent classrooms;
WHEREAS, a
national poll found that the vast majority of adults in the
WHEREAS, all of
____’s children deserve fathers and mothers who are prepared to be
present, engaged, nurturing and effective;
NOW, THEREFORE,
I/we, ________________ hereby proclaim the period from Mother’s Day (May
13) through Father’s Day (June 17), as
PREPARE TOMORROW’S
PARENTS MONTH
and commend
this observance to the people of this ________________________.
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Tomorrow's Parents Month Index Page
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