Good parenting is critical to the health of children, families, and communities. 

Parents who engage in parenting behaviors and practices generally recognized as supporting the healthy physical, emotional, and intellectual development of children often raise healthy, happy, responsible children. 

Parents who engage in parenting behaviors and practices generally recognized as disrupting the healthy physical, emotional, and intellectual development of children often raise unhealthy, unhappy, irresponsible children. 

Children grow into adults who will make or break communities.

For this reason parenting education must be a priority.  I propose that communities teach parenting to young people, kids, in an effort to prepare them for the responsibilities of parenthood. 

I feel strongly about teaching kids how to parent because preparation for adulthood is the reason we educate children, and parenting is by far the most important job they’ll have as adults.  Additionally, often parents don't realize they have poor parenting skills, may not be motivated to change their behavior, face serious psychological and practical obstacles, and have already damaged their children.

I was thinking the education could take the form of both free and paid, permanent yet evolving, public service messages on radio, television, billboards, print, products, and the internet designed to teach young people how to engage in parenting behaviors and practices generally recognized as supporting the healthy physical, emotional, and intellectual development of children, and reject parenting behaviors and practices generally recognized as disrupting the healthy development of children. 

I can envision appealing school age spokespersons delivering these messages.