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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]  Have you ever known any Mormon SAHMs?  Who went to Brigham Young?  They take classes (like, many classes) on organizing the house, childcare, etc. [/quote]
Totally off topic... but seriously? They have such classes? What decade is this again?[/quote]

They do!  I'm not Mormon but when I started SAH I really wish I had those classes.  I mean, they have like a gazillion kids and they believe they're building a kingdom for eternity or something, so it's pretty important.  Also, every Mormon I've known has had the happiest family life ever, so they're doing something right.  They have like structured family time and have family music time and all sorts of cool traditions.

But seriously, did you see that article in WaPo about how Home Ec should come back, and should be for boys and girls?  I totally agree.  Everyone should take classes in childcare, parenting, home management, cooking, personal finance and budget making, etc.[/quote]
I'm all for home ec in MS/HS, but college?  No. That's for serious study in your field. Sometimes I do think childcare classes should be required for all new parents, but in college?  That's just too weird.[/quote]

Everybody should take classes in high school that teach things like budgeting, personal finance, cooking, etc but, since not everybody is going to have kids right out of college (or at all), universal parenting classes would be a waste. There definitely should be free classes for adults (of any age) seriously considering having kids, though, so they don't enter into motherhood or fatherhood blindly. There should also be a required (free) childcare class for expectant parents, as well as free classes for parents through out their kids' childhoods that address parenting kids at various stages. Classes on parenting toddlers for parents of older infants, classes on parenting preschoolers for parents of older toddlers, classes on parenting early elementary schoolers for parents of kids about to start K, etc.  There would ideally also be free parenting classes that address specific issues like parenting kids with various special needs (autism, ADHD, down syndrome, giftedness, 2E, etc), parenting during a divorce/co-parenting with an ex, blended families, adoptive families, etc. [/quote]

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