Parent Education Opportunities

 

The Palo Alto PTA Council has planned the following Parent Education event:

From Crisis to Long-Term Strategy: 41 Developmental Assets

Attend this panel and Q&A session to:

• learn about the 41 Developmental Assets, a frawework for supporting and fostering resiliency, health, and well-being in our youth
• hear more about the survey Ohlone 5th graders will be taking
• find out how to learn more

 

The Ohlone PTA is making plans for various Ohlone-specific Parent Education opportunities for the 2010-2011 school year.  Check back here (and read eNews) for information as events are planned.

 

Ohlone parents might be interested in the following websites, which are focused on helping the community in the exhilarating tasks of parenting:

Common Sense Media "is dedicated to improving the media and entertainment lives of kids and families.  We exist 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, as well as an independent forum, so that families can have a choice and a voice about the media they consume." 

Your Child's Health University at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford presents "programs to enhance the lives of parents and children".  Big hits within our community:  the Heart to Heart Seminars, two-part talks on puberty and growing up for parents and their pre-adolescent children.

Challenge Success believes "that real success results from attention to the basic developmental needs of children and a valuing of different types of skills and abilities.  In particular, 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 expand options 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."

Know of other great local or online resources?  Send 'em our way!

updated August 19, 2010