Glenbard Parent Series speaker to discuss how to help a child reframe failure
On Tuesday, Dec. 5, the Glenbard Parent Series: Navigating Healthy Families will present "8 Setbacks/Failures That Can Make a Child a Success," with best-selling author Michelle Icard in two Zoom webinars at noon and 7 p.m. For some adolescents, it can feel like a single failure defines who they are. Icard will provide specific and unexpected advice about what to say, what not to say, and what to do to help teens navigate through eight categories of setback situations. With empathy, insight and optimism, Icard's advice ensures that a child's mistake becomes a character-building launchpad to a better future.
Continuing professional development units are available for these webinars.
Icard is a celebrated speaker, author and educator who helps young people, parents, and teachers navigate the complicated social world of adolescence. Her first book, "Middle School Makeover: Improving the Way You and Your Child Experience the Middle School Years," is a primer on the social and emotional changes parents and young people need to navigate. She followed that book with "Fourteen Talks By Fourteen." Icard returns to GPS with her latest bestseller, "8 Setbacks That Can Make A Child A Success: What to Do and What to Say to Turn "Failures" Into Character Building Moments."
Go to glenbardgps.org for further information and links to these webinars.
To be placed on a reminder list for GPS events or submit a question in advance, contact Gilda Ross, Glenbard District 87 student and community projects coordinator, at gilda_ross@glenbard.org or (630) 942-7668.
The Glenbard Parent Series is generously sponsored by the Cebrin Goodman Center, Community Consolidated School District 93 Birth to 5 Coalition, Cooperative Association for Special Education (CASE), College of DuPage, Duly Health and Care, DuPage Regional Office of Education, Emmy Gaffey Foundation, Glenbard Early Childhood Collaborative, Kids Matter, Kiwanis Clubs, Prevention Leadership Team of the DuPage County Health Department, and Webb-Hutter Family Fund of DuPage Foundation.