Parenting comes with plenty of advice, but almost no training, and children rarely follow the script anyway.
In Who Educates Parents?, Dr. Žilvinas Svigaris explores a different idea: that children do not simply learn from their parents, but actively shape the people their parents become.
Written in collaboration with his own family, the book combines personal experience, philosophy and conversations between parents and children.
Its central question is simple:
Who teaches parents how to become parents?
Rather than offering fixed rules, Svigaris focuses on dialogue, trust and mutual learning, with his children sometimes remembering the same family moments differently.
The book explores communication, adolescence, education, creativity, family traditions and how parents prepare children for an increasingly unpredictable future.
Its strongest idea is also its simplest: parenting is not a finished skill, but a relationship that keeps changing everyone involved.
As the book puts it:
Children do not simply receive education — they actively shape the people their parents become.
Svigaris brings a background in Computer Science, Economics and Philosophy, alongside experience in education and academic publishing.
Who Educates Parents? is published by Shea Publishing and is available now via Amazon.
At a time when parenting culture is crowded with conflicting advice, Who Educates Parents? makes a case for something less prescriptive: families that keep listening, adapting and learning together.