The three questions you should ask your kids before giving them a snack they may not need or want.
Julie Ross, Executive Director of Parenting Horizons, is honored to be a guest blogger on Decoder, sponsored by The Partnership For A Drug Free America.
Technology: Friend of Foe? The Goodall Effect
How to Get Your Teen to Open Up and Talk to You More (and Text A Little Less)
Twenty-one years ago, when Julie Ross’s first child was born, she made a discovery: those child-development textbooks she’d read for her master’s in psychology had little to do with diapers and feedings and crying spells. Theory was fine, but now she needed on-the-job training. She looked for a parenting support group, and discovered that the people leading them had the same degree she did.
“So I thought, let me just explore this,” she remembers. What she found was that parenting books and media “experts” were creating a generation of panicked parents uncertain about how to guide their children through the minefield of body image, Internet safety, substance abuse, sex-in addition to the less modern challenges of plain old growing up. “My whole business began with the idea of giving parents practical techniques to fix these things that people are writing about.”
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Workshops at a glance -- start dates and instructors for upcoming workshops
(workshop descriptions appear further down)
September 20: 8 week Practical Parenting Workshop w/ Julie Ross (Evening)
September 29: 8 week Practical Parenting Workshop w/ Carolyn Meyer-Wartels (Daytime)
September 28: 8 week How to Hug a Porcupine Tween Workshop w/ Julie Ross (Evening)
September 29: 8 week How to Hug a Porcupine Tween Workshop w/ Barbara Nusbaum (Daytime)
Workshop Specifics:
Monday Evenings w/ Julie Ross Practical Parenting
Playground Politics
As I sat indoors this past season in some of the coldest weather we'd seen in many winters, with my children bored and irritable, full of energy with no place to expend it, I longed for the warmer days of spring and summer when I could set them loose on the playground. Now the opportunity is here, and I've breathed a sigh of relief. But as any parent can attest, the playground brings its own challenges. At times the politics on the playground rival those of the Capital in Washington. Is it o.k.
Rebuilding A Relationship That's Hit Rock Bottom
A mother sat in my office the other day, telling me about her preadolescent son. He was surly, she said, and when he spoke to her it was with a great deal of eye rolling and nasty comments. He refused to pick up his clothes, and his simple chores of taking out the trash and setting the table were never done properly.
