Glenbard Parent Series to present Positive Parenting: Mastering Motivation, Attitude & Responsibility

The Glenbard Parent Series: (GPS) Navigating Healthy Families will present Positive Parenting: Mastering Motivation, Attitude and Responsibility: Practical Strategies to Impart Independence, Problem Solving and Self-control with Randy Sprick on Monday, Oct. 12.

Do your children sometimes drive you crazy? Do you sometimes feel unsure about how to discipline your children? Would you like your children to be more motivated and cooperative? Do you want to feel better about yourself as a parent? If you answered yes to any of these questions, plan to join us for this evening with Sprick. Sprick is a parent, grandparent, director of Teaching Strategies, Inc. and lead consultant for Safe and Civil Schools in Eugene, Oregon.

This free GPS event will begin at 7 p.m. Oct. 12 in the auditorium at Glenbard South High School, 23W200 Butterfield Rd. in Glen Ellyn. Please join us for a pre-meeting dinner at 6:30 p.m.

Sprick will discuss things parents can do to help their children learn to behave responsibly and respectfully. Attendees will learn:

• How to inspire children to be motivated

• How to create clear expectations for positive behavior

• How and when to use consequences for misbehavior

• How and when to use praise

CPDUs are available for education professionals.

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 information regarding GPS programs, visit facebook.com/glenbardparentseries or contact Gilda Ross, Glenbard District 87 student and community projects coordinator, at 942-7668 or gilda_ross