Chapter Three

CHAPTER III

Curriculum

Introduction

The following small curriculum is designed to be used in conjunction with a larger curriculum on parenting or child care. It is best used by a leader or teacher who has read this thesis and understands that the primary goal of these lesson plans is to introduce attachment parenting practices in an effort to prevent future attachment disorders. The promotion of future responsive parenting behaviors is tantamount to this goal. The specific parenting behaviors that are introduced should not be presented in a dogmatic fashion, but rather one of openness, that will hopefully inspire students to consider for themselves how best to parent, rather than blindly following cultural norms in a society that does very little to value the importance of parent-child attachment. The lessons are designed to be used with secondary students who are not parents, but could easily be adapted for use with parenting teens as well. However, it is strongly recommended that these lessons not be the sole basis of a program for adolescents who are parents because those students would benefit much more from an intensive, preferably mentoring-based, parenting program. Several of these lessons do require significant planning, thus this program is not to be casually implemented. Nevertheless, this author strongly believes the benefits of introducing students to attachment-promoting parenting behaviors will ultimately be worth the extra effort put forth to implement these lessons.

Lesson Plans and Handouts

Seven lesson plans featuring attachment parenting behaviors, along with their respective handouts, start on the following page.

[Note: These lesson plans are not available on-line.]

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