This section is all about parenting. What makes a good parent? Why you need parents? What do you teach as a parent? There are so many things about parenting that are vital to know and very interesting. There are three types of parenting. Authoritarian who are super strict, Permissive who are hands off, and authoritative/active who are more balanced. We learned about active parenting and some of the qualities it involves teaching as a parent. Courage, cooperation, responsibility, and respect. As parents you should strive to instill these into your children. It is a balance to help your children throughout their lives.  The Popkin videos were really beneficial to my learning about how to parent. Something that I feel really strongly about is that when it comes to the approach of parenting we need to focus on the needs of a child not the behavior.  In class there were a lot of examples given of children needing more attention and this would stop some of their thought to be annoying behaviors. This automatically made me think of my niece. I called my sister to tell her what I learned and come to find out she is taking a parenting class. This made me feel really good and we understood what each other was talking about.  There are always good approaches to dealing with behaviors but there are plenty of bad approaches also. I think that as we are trying to teach children we need to find the best possible approach. Most importantly, meet the need instead of trying to change the behavior. In the end because the need is met the behavior will then change.