Curriculum for Black Parents: A Guide for Group Facilitators

By Yejide Muhammad

About the Book
Curriculum for Black Parents is an instructional curriculum for teachers and childhood education professionals who facilitate parenting groups on how best to raise, nurture, support, and care for their children. Unlike most parenting curricula, Curriculum for Black Parents acknowledges how racism and racial injustice affect Black parents and Black children, highlighting the fears and struggles that are particular to Black families.
About the Author
Yejide Muhammad was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and grew up in Boston. She attended the University of Massachusetts, and graduated earning a master’s degree in education in the field of Counseling Psychology. She holds two licenses as a professional counselor, LADC1 and LCDP. Muhammad started her own private practice providing non-traditional counseling that includes a cultural and spiritual approach, specifically aiding African American communities and families. Muhammad is a mother of three adult sons.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dorrance Publishing Company
• Release date: Feb 29, 2024
• ISBN: 9781639376452

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Copyright © 2024  by Yejide Muhammad M.Ed LADC1 LCDP

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Learning to navigate obstacles, challenges, and tragedies while traveling life’s many roads can feel both crippling and paralyzing. Sometimes our daily life can be so hard that we struggle to have hope that things will ever get better.

 For example, the rules of parenting are different from generation to generation, culture to culture, household to household, and gender to gender. There are many unwritten rules, some intentionally passed down by family examples, while others are a direct result of brokenness and pain.

When we are clearly battling discomfort, discouragement, and feelings of defeat, how do we look ahead with strength clarity and certainty? The author of this curriculum is attempting to close the gap and