Our Starting Point is dedicated to improving the lives of individual children and our collective futures, by encouraging all parents to participate in parent education programs. Effective parenting is the pivotal lynch-pin link that will enable us to move our schools, communities, workforce, and nation from their current state to an improved collective future. Right now, literally, interaction- by-interaction with our children, we are creating the adults of tomorrow, and for the most part, we're winging it. We're using a fly-by-the–seat-of–our-pants approach that's been silently handed down from one generation to the next – and accepted as the norm. We're led to believe it's okay if we just figure it out as we go and hope for the best; all the while joking "they sure don't come with instructions." Our goal is to shift that norm. Our goal is for all parents to participate in parent education programs - to learn how to be an effective parent. Our children deserve that, their futures depend on it, and our world desperately needs it.