SCCC’s Best Practice Parenting Program – Counselor Matthew Shima’s Reflections

SCCC offers a unique ten-week class called Best Practice Parenting that we developed to support parents with mindful awareness tools, child development knowledge and interactive explorations of the challenges of raising children in our society.  The curriculum is designed to help parents feel respected and valued, to honor their strengths and to help them feel safe to share their struggles.  Matthew Shima, one of our Best Practice Parenting facilitators, wrote the following piece about his experience in the class. -- "I begin every new Best Practice Parenting course with the introduction, “My name is Matthew, and I’m not a parent.”  I ...