Glenbard Parent Series event to explore Helping Kids Thrive in Digital Age

The Glenbard Parent Series: (GPS) Navigating Healthy Families will host Devorah Heitner in an event based on her new book "Screenwise: Helping Kids Thrive (and Survive) in the Digital Age" on Wednesday, Sept. 28.

Many parents feel that their children are addicted, detached or distracted because of their digital devices. However, media expert Heitner believes technology offers huge potential to children - if parents guide them.

Heitner offers a realistic and optimistic perspective, as well as practical advice to help set young people up for a lifetime of success in a world fueled by technology. Parents will be empowered to recognize the wisdom that they have gained throughout their lives is a relevant and urgently needed supplement to their children's digital savvy and will better understand the skills necessary for managing the challenges of parenting in the digital age. She will discuss techniques to navigate the friendship and identity issues that young people face growing up in the digital age.

Please join us for this free program at 7 p.m. Sept. 28 at Glenbard West High School, 670 Crescent Blvd. in Glen Ellyn.

Heitner, who is on faculty at Northwestern University, founded Raising Digital Natives to serve as a resource for schools wishing to cultivate a culture of responsible digital citizenship and as a parenting guide on navigating friendships, school and social media.

GPS is generously sponsored by the Cebrin Goodman Center, Cooperative Association for Special Education (CASE), College of DuPage, DuPage Medical Group, Emmy Gaffey Foundation and Trust Company of Illinois. For more information, visit glenbardgps.org or contact Gilda Ross, Glenbard District 87 student and community projects coordinator at 942-7668 or gilda_ross@glenbard.org