Advancing Parenting is a Camarillo, CA nonprofit organization that does parenting education, but we have no classes. In fact, we don't even interact with parents. What we do is find easy and powerful ways for individuals, schools, communities, and organizations to promote supportive parenting and prevent child abuse. Unlike conventional parenting education which is designed to help specific parents improve their parenting skills, Advancing Parenting's goal is to elevate the overall quality of parenting.
Every car gets to be parenting educator!
Advancing Parenting does one thing and one thing only. It gives away parenting tip bumper stickers. Here's an example.
There are fifty-five in a set and the tips focus on the development of children's mental health, character, and intellect. Each sticker communicates a parenting behavior or practice generally recognized as supporting the healthy development of children. The messages are wordy and were written to be read at stoplights. At stops, drivers and passengers point, smile, and nod. Conversations begin, and often a phone is used to take a photo of the bumper sticker right at the stoplight! Presumably they are being shared on social media. It's gratifying to watch in your rearview mirror. Folks are genuinely pleased that parenting information is being communicated in this very public way.
Schools, daycares, businesses, agencies, service clubs, doctors' offices, clinics, hospitals, etc. can put sets of the bumper stickers in our Rubbermaid holders and place them on counters and tables so staff and visitors can choose one for their cars. Businesses and organizations with fleets of vehicles can put stickers on each one.
Just one will be read thousands of times!
Click on The Bumper Stickers above to see the complete list of the fifty-five bumper sticker messages.
What the Future Holds
Advancing Parenting will in time
partner with the Advertising Council and employ increasingly impactful media to display the fifty-five parenting tips. Three in ten semi trailers have no graphics. This is because they are owned by leasing companies or owner operators who have no service or product to advertise. Advancing Parenting will partner with the manufacturers so these trailers roll off the assembly line with parenting tips on both sides. Imagine the impact of tens of thousands of these giant rolling billboards crisscrossing the U.S. day in and day out 365 days a year.
This will take millions of dollars in donations, but the return on investment and reduction in human suffering will be well worth it.
Advancing Parenting will in time
partner with the Advertising Council and employ increasingly impactful media to display the fifty-five parenting tips. Three in ten semi trailers have no graphics. This is because they are owned by leasing companies or owner operators who have no service or product to advertise. Advancing Parenting will partner with the manufacturers so these trailers roll off the assembly line with parenting tips on both sides. Imagine the impact of tens of thousands of these giant rolling billboards crisscrossing the U.S. day in and day out 365 days a year.
This will take millions of dollars in donations, but the return on investment and reduction in human suffering will be well worth it.
Advancing Parenting...we put parenting education in public where it belongs.
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