Dear David, Thank you for contacting PROTECT. While Ms. Arngrim is our California chairperson, we do not forward messages to her. It is best that you contact...
Dear Mr. Dooley, I am glad to hear from you. Your idea has tremendous merit, and there are programs whose core mission is in alignment with your own. By cc:,...
David, I just reread your original e-mail and I find your idea congruent with healthy human development. I think age appropriate and developmentally target...
Hi David, and thanks for your message. Your interest in that arena is not far off from what we and our statewide child abuse prevention network has deemed as...
Dear David, Thank you so much for writing and sharing your desire to help people be better parents. It is certainly needed! Parenting traditional skills got...
Dear Mr.Dooley, What an interesting, even exciting, idea! It's so obvious once it's mentioned, but I'd never have thought of it. I have blind copied in a few...
Hello, David! So nice to hear from you. Yes, in my opinion, your idea has great merit. Most communities barely have parenting programs for new parents, much...
Peach, I share the same frustration you do. What can an individual do to make community-based parenting education for young people a reality? The task seems...
Posted this to Angela Shelton blog today. Most of the perps we all hate were once innocent little boys who were twisted in the hands of abusive parents into...
When people wail and moan about child sexual abuse, crime, substance abuse, domestic violence, teen pregnancy, the disintegration of the family, gang violence,...
Dr. Brooks will be posing this question to her guests on Wednesday's show. Most of the perpetrators we would all like to see behind bars were once innocent...
Andrea, Dr. Cosby has got the bully pulpit at the moment, yet he never says anything about parenting ed for young people!! Someone needs to make contact and...
Dr. Brooks, thanks for reading that blurb. I'm an advocate of community-based parenting education for young people, not parent education. When people hear...
"For every ten people who are clipping at the branches of evil, you're lucky to find one who's hacking at the roots." Henry David Thoreau We are the ones...
This appeared in The Californian recently. It seems everyone's up in arms about how First 5 is spending our tax money. I can think of a good way to spend it,...
Parenting Ed Petition I would like to make Californian readers aware of an important initiative sponsored by Dr. Kerby Alvy, a nationally and internationally...
Inga, here's an outside-the-box idea for combating gangs and a lot of other problems. First, I think there's been a general decline in the quality of parenting...
Californians for Parenting Education In Schools (CAPES) is sending out this bulletin to those who have contacted us concerning our organization. Please let us...
Yes, I would like to remain on the list. Thank you. FYI, in your messsage, the character string, "www.preparetomorrow sparents. org..." appeared in the...
Expect more tragedies like Columbine High School and Virginia Tech, not less. Mass murderers aren't born, they're made…manufactured by sick, twisted parents,...
Just a friendly reminder that you may send any of my letters-to-the- editor to your local newspaper under your own name. The more people who read about...
Today, I sent this message to a number of the Fight Crime: Invest in Kids people. Here's an outside-the-box idea for combating gangs and crime. First, I think...
There's a colossal difference between prevention and intervention, and lately intervention programs are calling themselves prevention and this isn't helpful. I...
I sent this question for panelists to the National League of Cities Unity Conference. It's well documented that kids being raised by parents who engage in ...
I posted the following to the Effective Parenting petition. Trying to identify, round up, and change the parenting of every adult who needs intervention is an...
Men, who were raised by parents who engaged in parenting behaviors and practices generally recognized as supporting the healthy physical, emotional, and...
I sent this to Gary Slutkin, University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health; director, My name is David Dooley. I'm an elementary school teacher in...