GPS Parent Series speaker to discuss essential skills for young people
On Thursday, Aug. 22, the GPS Parent Series: Navigating Healthy Families will present “Start The Year Off Strong: 5 Essential Skills to Raise Students Who Can Weather Life’s Storms” with parenting expert Aliza Pressman at noon and 7 p.m. via Zoom. Go to the GPS Parent Series website, gpsparentseries.org, for information and the links to these webinars.
Pressman’s book, “The 5 Principles of Parenting,” doesn’t presume to tell people how to parent ‘the right way,’ because the science is clear: There’s no one right way to raise good people. Instead, she will provide strategies every parent can use to get things right often enough: relationship, reflection, regulation, rules, and repair.
Families can use Pressman’s five principles to chart a course that’s aligned with their values and their children’s unique temperaments. No matter a child’s age, it’s never too late to help build the resilience they need to thrive.
Pressman is a developmental psychologist with nearly two decades of experience working with families and health care providers. She is an assistant clinical professor in the Division of Behavioral Health Department of Pediatrics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital where she is co-founding director of The Mount Sinai Parenting Center. Pressman is also the host of the hit podcast, “Raising Good Humans.“
Pressman will be in conversation at noon with Lisa Damour, bestselling author of three books: “The Emotional Lives of Teenagers,” “Untangled” and “Under Pressure,” and at 7 p.m. Pressman will be in conversation with Dr. David Yeager, professor of psychology and author of “10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People: A Groundbreaking Approach to Leading the Next Generation ― And Making Your Own Life Easier."
GPS is generously sponsored by the Emmy Gaffey Foundation, Cebrin Goodman Center, Prevention Leadership Team of the DuPage County Health Department, Duly Health and Care, Glenbard Early Childhood Collaborative, Cooperative Association for Special Education (CASE), College of DuPage, KidsMatter, Endeavor Health, Community Consolidated School District 93 Birth to 5 Coalition, DuPage Regional Office of Education, and Webb-Hutter Family Fund of DuPage Foundation.
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