Photo By Sgt. Joshua Laidacker | Maj. Dan Hardin, the brigade chaplain for 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 3rd...... read more read more
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FORT STEWART, Ga. – Soldiers of 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, came together for a training class on the 1-2-3 Magic parenting program.
“It’s one of the most graceful gracious ways of parenting I’ve found,” said Maj. Dan Hardin, the brigade chaplain for 4th IBCT. “It changes the whole atmosphere of the home.”
The class focused on how to stop bad behavior, and everyone who attended the training also received a book to take home to continue the learning process.
Pvt. 1st Class Kyle Smith, a forward observer with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1 Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, 4th IBCT, and his wife Nicole attended the class.
The Smith family is two weeks from their due date with their first child and said they came to the class to prepare for the future adding they thought the class was great and would be using the techniques taught.
“It was something for both of us to learn so we’ll both know how to use it and what to do,” said Smith, a native of York, Pennsylvania. “Just this book should help a lot.”
“I thought it was effective,” said Nicole, a native of Cape Coral, Florida, of the training. “I’m going to read it. I think it’ll help a lot.”
Hardin, who uses this very same program at home, said, “We received many data points that said that this was a need and then I started reflecting on my life: No one taught me parenting.”
Hardin added there’s a stigma about coming to a parenting class where it’s assumed that if you need or want the class then you are a bad parent. He added he is working on presenting classes in a way to help overcome that stigma.
Chaplains from across the brigade also attended the training in effort to be able to hold similar programs at their battalions in the future.
| Date Taken: | 12.05.2014 |
| Date Posted: | 12.08.2014 10:04 |
| Story ID: | 149639 |
| Location: | FORT STEWART, GA, US |
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