Parent Education Opportunities

 

Updated September 9, 2009

Get Real:  A Girl Power Workshop for Girls and Adults

Bestselling author Rachel Simmons comes to Gunn High School, Thursday September 24 at 7:00 p.m.

Join girl expert Rachel Simmons for a fun back-to-school workshop on confident self-expression.  Rachel is celebrating the release of her new book, The Curse of the Good Girl:  Raising Authentic Girls with Courage and Confidence.   With her trademark sense of humor and down-to-earth styly, Rachel will teach girls powerful tools to:  get the most out of friendships; express yourself with confidence; and deal with conflict effectively.  Adults will learn strategies to help girls access and express their authentic selves.  Join us for an extended Q & A session plus a book signing.  For more information, visit RachelSimmons.com.

 

 

Updated September 6, 2009

The Media Center will be broadcasting a tape of "Supporting Our Teens: A Multifaith Community Response"  on the following schedule.

 

Airs On	Channel	Program
Tue, Sep 8th 9:00pm	27	SUPPORTING OUR TEENS - A Multifaith Community Response
Wed, Sep 9th 5:30am	30	SUPPORTING OUR TEENS - A Multifaith Community Response
Wed, Sep 9th 10:00pm	28	SUPPORTING OUR TEENS - A Multifaith Community Response
Thu, Sep 10th 1:00pm	28	SUPPORTING OUR TEENS - A Multifaith Community Response
Fri, Sep 11th 12:00am	27	SUPPORTING OUR TEENS - A Multifaith Community Response
Fri, Sep 11th 8:00pm	28	SUPPORTING OUR TEENS - A Multifaith Community Response
Sat, Sep 12th 9:00am	30	SUPPORTING OUR TEENS - A Multifaith Community Response
Sat, Sep 12th 11:00am	28	SUPPORTING OUR TEENS - A Multifaith Community Response
Sat, Sep 12th 7:00pm	27	SUPPORTING OUR TEENS - A Multifaith Community Response
Tue, Sep 15th 9:00pm	27	SUPPORTING OUR TEENS - A Multifaith Community Response
Wed, Sep 16th 5:30am	30	SUPPORTING OUR TEENS - A Multifaith Community Response
Fri, Sep 18th 12:00am	27	SUPPORTING OUR TEENS - A Multifaith Community Response
Sat, Sep 19th 9:00am	30	SUPPORTING OUR TEENS - A Multifaith Community Response
Sat, Sep 19th 7:00pm	27	SUPPORTING OUR TEENS - A Multifaith Community Response

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Updated August 29, 2009

Supporting Our Teens: A Multifaith Community Response

Faith communities from diverse traditions present:

Supporting Our Teens: A Multifaith Community Response
Monday, August 31, 7:00-9:00 PM 
Cubberley Theatre, 4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto 

A six member panel will be moderated by Palo Alto Mayor Peter Drekmeier, and include representatives from Buddhist, Jewish, Muslim, Protestant, Roman Catholic, and Christian Science traditions.  The discussion will focus on what various faith teachings and practices can offer the community (parents, friends, grandparents, teachers, neighbors, teens -- anyone who cares about youth) as together we strive to better support our youth's spiritual, mental, social and physical well-being as they begin the school year.  The purpose of the forum is to add the unique gifts of spiritual traditions and communities as sources of strength and guidance in service to the whole community.  The event is free and open to the public. 

After brief opening remarks from each of the panelists, the core of the evening will consist of  these speakers' responses to questions from the community.  To submit a question in advance (which is encouraged), email it to multifaithpeace@aol.com by Sunday, August 30.  Representatives from other faith traditions and local congregations will be available at the end of the program for further discussion.  Several midpeninsula faith communities are organizing "youth-only" events which will be open to all teens, and will be announced during this program.  The forum is planned in part in response to the tragic teen suicides and suicide attempts at the end of the last school year, prompting faith leaders from diverse traditions to come together to offer care and support to the whole community.

Further information is available at the website of Council of Churches of Santa Clara. 

 

Updated August 8, 2009

 

The Palo Alto PTA Council and the Ohlone PTA aretaking a summer hiatus from Parent Ed.

However, the Ohlone PTA is happy to recommend thefollowing websites to help the community in the exhilarating tasks ofparenting.

Common Sense Media "is dedicated toimproving the media and entertainment lives of kids and families.  Weexist because media and entertainment profoundly impact the social, emotional,and physical development of our nation's children.  As a non-partisan,not-for-profit organization, we provide trustworthy information and tools, aswell as an independent forum, so that families can have a choice and a voiceabout the media they consume." 

Your Child's Health University at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital atStanford presents "programs to enhance the lives of parents andchildren".  Big hits within our community:  the Heart to HeartSeminars for boys and girls, two-part talks on puberty and growing up forparents and their pre-adolescent children;  Mothers of Sons and Dads of Daughters, evenings devoted to parentsraising their offspring of the opposite sex.

Challenge Success believes "thatreal success results from attention to the basic developmental needs ofchildren and a valuing of different types of skills and abilities.  Inparticular, we endorse a vision of success that emphasizes character, health,independence, connection, creativity, enthusiasm, and achievement. Accordingly, we have created Challenge Success with a mission to inform,inspire, and equip youth, parents, and schools with practices that expandoptions for youth success".

Half Full: Science for Happy Kids This blog is about science-based parenting advice. Christine Carter is a sociologist and the executive director of UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center, and says, "Since I'm reading all the research related to raising happy children anyway, I thought we might as well make it USEABLE to parents. We hope this is a valuable counterpoint to some of the more opinion-based parenting advice platforms that are out there, especially because sorting out fact from fiction can be confusing when it comes to parenting."