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The purpose of this study is to prepare an education program that develop parents problem solving skill and to test its efficiency. In order to reach this goal, 20 for the experiment and 20 for the control groups making a total of forty subjects from the Istanbul have been analyzed. “Problem Solving Inventory”, “Family Life and Child Rearing Attitudes Scale” were used for pre and post-test applications. The samples in experiment and control groups were consisted of people between the ages of 20-to 40 years at least graduated from high school and have children in preschool period. The developed program was applied in 10 sessions that took 90 minutes per week. In order to analyze the data t-test and ANOVA 2x2 were used. Data, obtained from Problem Solving Inventory scores and 4 scales of “Family Life and Child Rearing Attitudes Scale” (the scales of Over Protective Motherhood, Refusing Being Housewife, Spouse Incompatibility, Pressure and Discipline), excluding Democratic Act and Equality, showed that subject group’s post test scores were significantly different from subject group’s pre-test, control group’s pre and post test scores. “Parent’s Problem Solving Skill Development Program” was found effective in order to develop parent’s problem solving skill and this effect made positive changes on parenthood life. Key words: Problem, problem solving, parental attitudes

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