Redwood Day School Parents' Association
Proudly Presents:
Parent University
Saturday, January 26, 2008
8:30 am to 3:00 pm
Redwood Day School
3245 Sheffield Avenue, Oakland
For more information or to volunteer, contact Helena Weiss-Duman, 510-812-0674
SCHEDULE
[8:30 am Check in]
Coffee and bagels are served
Resource Fair & Book Sale
Childcare opens
[9 am Welcome & Keynote]
The Happiness Habit: How To Foster Behaviors and Beliefs Kids Need for Joy
Christine Carter, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Greater Good Science Center
at UC Berkeley
[10:15 am Breakout Session I]
Balancing Youth Sports and Family Life
Regan McMahon, Chronicle Deputy Book Editor and author of "Revolution in the
Bleachers: How Parents Can Take Back Family Life in a World Gone Crazy Over
Youth Sports"
'Tween Sexuality
Narda Skov, RDS Health Education Coordinator
Family Internet Safety in a Web 2.0 World
Peter Ferioli, Director of Net Nanny and RDS parent
Reclaiming Childhood: How to Avoid the Commercial Onslaught
Allen Kanner, Ph.D., Co-founder, Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood
Dad's Role in Parenting
Michael Connor, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of Psychology, CSU, Long Beach; author
of Black Fathers: An Invisible Presence in America
[11:30 am Breakout Session II]
Parenting Through Elementary School: How the role of parent changes with the age
of your child
Mike Riera, Head of School and RDS Parent
Temperament Tools: Working With Your Child's Inborn Traits
Diane Johnson, author of Temperament Tools: Working with Your Child's Inborn
Traits and Director of Admissions and Financial Aid
Tween Technology
Middle Schoolers and Warren Sepkowitz, RDS Middle School Director
Is This A Phase?: Child Development & Parent Strategies, Birth to 6 Years
Helen F. Neville, B.S., R.N., author of Is This A Phase?: Child Development & Parent Strategies, Birth to 6 Years
All Kinds of Minds: An Overview and Look at Memory and Learning
Toby Mickelson MSW, ET/P Learning Specialist, RDS Middle School Learning
Specialist
[12:30 p.m. Lunch and Resource Fair]
[1:30 pm Session III]
Parenting Through Middle School: How the role of parent changes with the age of
your child
Mike Riera, Head of School and RDS Parent
Allowance 101: All The Things You Didn't Know
Diane Johnson, author of Temperament Tools: Working with Your Child's Inborn
Traits and Director of Admissions and Financial Aid
A Conversation on "How to Talk to Your Kids About the Tough Stuff"
A dynamic and interactive "how to" training on how parents can make the "tough
stuff" easier and at the same time enhance or relationship with our children by
answering their questions about diversity in a way that they will understand and
appreciate. Presented in association with the RDS Prism Committee.
Jilchistina Vest, M.A.Ed., Director of the Fusion Program (a summer program held on the Redwood Day School campus),
Co-Director of iPride, over 10 years of teaching experience and working with
children
Discovering Your Leadership Style to Resolve Parenting Conflicts
Jamie Woof, leadership consultant who provides workshops and resources to
parents through www.theparentleader.com and is working on a book that links
leadership to the work of motherhood to be published in March 2009
Homework: How To Be Helpful
Heather Hougey, RDS Assistant Business Manager
[2:45 pm Closing Session]
[3:00 pm Event concludes]
