This is not your ordinary parenting class! It is an education in self-awareness. It is life-changing and is a prerequisite for all other classes at PaRC, except for CoParenting (a class for people sharing custody). This class explains The Causal Theory, which offers eight primary causes in childhood of adult outcome, for better or worse, depending upon the parenting and especially the first few years of life. With this hidden information, we can parent better and self-reflect better about our own proclivities and life’s choices.
 

     The more positive specific experiences are for children, the better our resilience and outcome. Average parenting begets average outcome. If things go badly for any one of the critical transitions, we then enter adulthood with a single handicap, which can be surmounted. However, the more handicapped we become from the multiple critical experiences that went wrong, the more difficult life will become, except for one special mitigating factor. When one understands the origins of their behavioral choices, they can then self-reflect their way out of them.
 

     Since we hold that behavior is not inborn, we help you learn how to change or heal. The Causal Theory is supported by the best that science has to offer, however unpopular. In the pond that we swim, most believe that behavior is inborn, and certainly most animals behave according to genetic instruction. Some animals are naturally this or that. To make our point that behavior is mostly learned in the earliest years of life, watch this very short video.