Dr. Devorah Heitner offers tips to help young people manage their digital world at March 7 2023 GPS event

On March 7 the Glenbard Parent Series hosted Screenwise author and cultural historian Dr. Devorah Heitner in a program titled Growing Up in Public: Helping Kids Navigate Privacy and Reputation Online.

Heitner returned to GPS to discuss her most recent book, “Growing Up Public.” Her presentation guided adults in helping young people, who have a digital reputation/footprint, develop healthy boundaries and safeguard privacy in an increasingly screen-centered world. She offered tips that encourage young people to generate content that is constructive and sensitive to the feelings of others.

Heitner is a media technology specialist and founded Raising Digital Natives. Her first book, “Screenwise: Helping Kids Thrive (and Survive) in their Digital World,” was  written for parents and educators seeking advice on how to help children flourish in a world of constant connectedness. 

Click HERE for a Q and A of the program.

Take Away 

Marquardt School District 15  Communications Coordinator Lindsay Diehl co hosted the event and shared the following takeaway:

Dr. Heitner's incredible research in online media shows us how important it is to encourage positive content, healthy boundaries, and open conversations with our children about their digital reputation. Since the pandemic, technology has trickled down to younger ages. During this time of learning about their own digital footprint, we should allow our young people "do-overs", while we as adults model doing the right thing. Friends are a real, two-way relationship, but social media followers are not. Knowing that there is someone on the other side of the screen is an important lesson in empathy. Stay calm and give grace during this heavily digital age. It's critical that we show compassion to them and to ourselves.

Resources

Devorah Heitner's web site HERE

Devorah Heitner's Instagram HERE 

HEITNER'S - A Dozen Tips To Help Your Family Thrive in the Digital Age Raising Digital Natives HERE

The Parental Compass Podcast: Raising Children in a Digital Age with guest Dr. Devorah Heitner (2022) HERE

Digital Families Podcast: Managing Your Child's Screentime with Dr. Heitner (2021) HERE

TIME for Kids article: 8 Questions for Devorah Heitner, October 12, 2021 HERE

Relationship School Podcast: Screen Time & Keeping Your Kids Safe Online - Devorah Heitner, Ph.D. (2021) HERE

List of articles by Dr. Devorah Heitner with links  HERE

The Challenges of Raising a Digital Native | Devorah Heitner, Ph.D. | TEDxNaperville (2014)  HERE

GPS event with Dr. Jessica Minahan presents Practical Strategies for Reducing Anxiety and Challenging Behavior in Students

The Glenbard Parent Series: (GPS) Navigating Healthy Families presented Practical Strategies for Reducing Anxiety and Challenging Behavior in Students with Jessica Minahan during two webinars on  Tuesday, March 14.

With anxiety and challenging behaviors on the rise, adults need effective and easy-to-implement strategies to help young people process critical thoughts and interrupt negative behavior patterns. Using case studies, humorous stories and examples of common challenging situations, Minahan delivered a systematic approach to enhance adolescent coping skills and provide tools and interventions for reducing students’ anxiety and increasing their self-regulation and flexible thinking. 

Minahan is a licensed and board-certified behavior analyst, special educator and internationally known school consultant. She works with students who struggle with emotional and behavioral disabilities, anxiety disorders, high-functioning autism or mental health issues. She is the author of “The Behavior Code: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Teaching the Most Challenging Students,” and “The Behavior Code Companion: Strategies, Tools, and Interventions for Supporting Students with Anxiety-Related or Oppositional Behavior.” 

TAKE -AWAY 

Mary Furbush, Executive Director CASE: Cooperative Association for Special Education shared the following take-away:

"Dr. Minahan shared her systematic approach for understanding the cause and pattern of anxiety and difficult behaviors, which are often due to a lack of underdeveloped skills.  Students behave if they can. Misbehavior is a symptom of an underlying cause, and that behavior communicates a need. We should look for the patterns occurring before and after the behavior. We should ask ourselves, What is the student getting from the behavior? Anxiety often follows, which can then lead to distorted perceptions, inflexible thinking, and working memory challenges. When anxiety goes down, the ability to acquire skills goes up. Technology has impacted the skill of waiting, delayed gratification and taken time away from the development of social skills. We should focus on reinforcing positive behaviors, offer choices, provide the rationale first, and validate their feelings to assist with de-escalation. We should say "pause" not "stop" to ease transition and focus on the development of skills over incentives. Lastly, the only behavior we adults can control is our own."

RESOURCES

Handout: Parents-Practical Strategies to Reduce Anxiety in Kids HERE

Handout: Educators-Practical Strategies to Reduce Anxiety and Challenging Behavior in Students HERE

Jessica Minahan's Collection of School Resources Includes academic and social emotional resources for educators HERE

Jessica Minahan's Collection of Social/Emotional Resources and more HERE

Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast episode #107 with Jessica Minahan on "The Behavior Code: Understanding/Teaching the Most Challenging Students" HERE

Learn more about Jessica Minahan (website) HERE

Learn more about the Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast HERE

20 Tips to Help De-escalate Interactions With Anxious or Defiant Students with Minahan HERE

Behaviorbabe Podcast: Jessica Minahan on Treating Anxiety & Trauma in Public Schools HERE

Behaviorbabe Podcast: Jessica Minahan on Understanding the Impact of Anxiety on Behavior HERE

A Summary of Minahan’s Work:  A F.A.I.R. Plan by Elise M. Frangos, Ed.D.  HERE

Gina Biegel shares skills for staying positive, reducing stress and living your best life

The Glenbard Parent Series: (GPS) Navigating Healthy Families will presented Take in the Good: Skills for Staying Positive, Reducing Stress and Living Your Best Life with Gina Biegel for two programs on Wednesday, Feb. 15 via Zoom. 

Whether young people encounter sensory overload from electronic devices, cyberbullying or academic pressures, they would benefit from practicing self-care.

Choosing to focus on positive experiences has beneficial lasting benefits. Acquiring skills in mindfulness techniques will help young people feel empowered to take control of their well-being. Making self-care practices part of their routine, teens will discover life-hacks that bring relief during even the toughest days. Biegel’s teaching will help students increase self-esteem and live life with renewed hope and enthusiasm.

Biegel is a psychotherapist, researcher, speaker and author who specializes in mindfulness-based work with adolescents. She is founder of Stressed Teens, which offers mindfulness-based stress reduction for teens and author of several books, including “Be Mindful & Stress Less.”

Video of this event HERE

Takeaway

Assistant Principal of Student Services Debra Cartwright co -hosted the event and shared the following takeaway:

"Stress is our body responding to a threat or demand -it provides us with information, something is not the way it should be. Next identify the best way to support yourself, utilize healthy resources (gratitude, letting go, music, spending time with positive people exercise, asking for help, self care-it is not selfish).  Mindfulness is noticing your thoughts, and feelings in the present moment without harmful judgement-giving us time to pause-reflect, rather than react.  We get to choose where we put our attention. We can train/change our brain by tilting our attention to positive experiences. Where attention goes energy flows. Even in the hardest moments, remember to let your child know they are loved every day, give them the benefit of the doubt. Help them feel safe, secure, connected, and that they are enough. Love is not conditional".

Resources

Stressed Teens web site: HERE

Stressed Teens Toolbox:  HERE

U.S. News article with Gina Biegel: Managing High School Stress HERE

Mindful Kids Peace Summit interview with Gina Biegel of Stressed Teens VIDEO HERE

Dr. Catherine Newman discusses essential skills for young people at Feb 8 GPS events

 

The Glenbard Parent Series: (GPS) Navigating Healthy Families presented Essential Communication and Life Skills: A Kid's Guide to Growing Up with author Catherine Newman in two webinars on February 8, via Zoom. 

Dr. Catherine Newman, witty parenting writer and etiquette columnist, provided adults with tips and advice to nudge children into independence and teach them how to master chores, express themselves clearly and behave generously toward others. 

Newman has authored novels, nonfiction and articles about children, parents, teenagers and relationships. She is the etiquette columnist at Real Simple and the academic department coordinator of the Creative Writing Center at Amherst College.

Dr Newman shared the habits and skills we need to teach our children, and practice ourselves:

• Look up, and put the phone down. 
• Teach your child to be curious about others and lean into your curiosity about them. 
• Pay attention -think about what it feels like when someone is really listening.
• Give everyone the benefit of the doubt, assume the best, give others the space to make a mistake.
• Get good at compromising. Other people are different than you. 
• Problem solve rather than battling it out. Practice saying 'maybe I was wrong'. Cultivate an attitude of helpfulness, be your most generous self. You will make mistakes, apologize and move forward. The parent-child relationship 
• Your child is always growing, and changing -practice flexibility. Work to build trust, your relationship is more important than being right.

The full-length video of this event can be found on our YouTube channel HERE

TAKEAWAY

Glenbard Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources Josh Chambers co -hosted the event and shared the following takeaway:

"Dr Newman shared the habits and skills we need to teach our children, and practice ourselves.

 Be present. Pay attention -think about what it feels like when someone is really listening. Look up, and put the phone down. Teach your child to be curious about others and lean into your curiosity about them. Give everyone the benefit of the doubt, assume the best, and give others the space to make a mistake. Get good at compromising. Other people are different than you. Problem solve rather than battling it out. Practice saying 'maybe I was wrong'. Cultivate an attitude of helpfulness, be your most generous self. You will make mistakes, apologize and move forward. The parent-child relationship child is always growing, and changing -practice flexibility. Work to build trust,your relationship is more important than being right." 

RESOURCES

Catherine Newman’s website HERE

The Morning Books Show: What Can I Say By Catherine Newman HERE

Shauna Shapiro discusses enhancing well-being and increasing joy

On November 9 the Glenbard Parent Series welcomed clinical psychologist and internationally recognized expert in mindfulness and self-compassion Shauna Shapiro PhD, in a program titled Rewire the Brain for Calm, Clarity and Joy based on her bestselling books. She also shared practices that can rewire the brain for motivation, contentment and tranquility. The practice of mindfulness can reduce emotional reactivity and help teens and adults manage stress, enhance self-compassion and make healthy life choices.

Shapiro is a professor at Santa Clara University and an internationally recognized expert in mindfulness. Shapiro has published three critically acclaimed books, including: “Good Morning, I Love You,” “The Art and Science of Mindfulness: Integrating Mindfulness into Psychology and the Helping Professions,” and “Mindful Discipline: A Loving Approach to Setting Limits & Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child.”

Video of this event HERE

TAKE AWAY

Dr. Joseph Williams, Superintendent of Queen Bee School District 16 cohosted the program and shared the following takeaway:

Physical fitness AND mental fitness are powerful tools with significant health and learning benefits. The practice of mindfulness is a great tool to enhance mental fitness and re-architect the structure of your brain to decrease stress, increase concentration, and strengthen your sense of belonging. Mindfulness is made up of 3 elements; intention (connecting us to our hopes/values, what matters most, guiding us to what we care about), attention (being in the present moment,)

and attitude (having an openness to kindness, dismissing negative and intrusive thoughts).  Whatever has happened can't be changed, the important thing is what you do now. It is never too late to rewire our brain-you can start anytime. What you practice makes you stronger. Our children benefit when we treat ourselves with compassion, model gratitude, offer unconditional love, healthy boundaries, expect mistakes and commit to being present, listening deeply to our children moment by moment.

 

RESOURCES/VIDEO LINKS

Q&A from GPS Rewiring the Brain for Calm, Clarity and Joy with Shauna Shapiro 11-9-22  HERE

Shauna Shapiro: Mindfulness Meditation and the Brain | Greater Good Science Center HERE

Shauna Shapiro: The IAA Model of Mindfulness | Greater Good Science Center HERE

The Power of Mindfulness: What You Practice Grows Stronger | Shauna Shapiro | TEDx Washington Square HERE

Dr. Shauna Shapiro website HERE

Susan Cain explains the Quiet Movement and the secret strength of introverts at Oct 13 event

On Oct. 13 the Glenbard Parent Series hosted award-winning author, Susan Cain in programs based on her bestseller Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking.  

Leadership is often associated with bold confidence and charisma, but many great leaders are deep thinkers, soft-spoken and shy. "Don't think of introversion as something that needs to be cured,” says Cain. Introverts make up about one third of the population, and Cain maintains that asking introverts to act like extroverts is a serious waste of talent and energy. Cain says illuminating the power of quietude will not only free introverts to be themselves, but will also contribute to positive advancements in leadership, parenting and the workforce.

Cain’s teaching changes how society sees introverts and how they see themselves. Cain started the Quiet Movement with her bestsellers “Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of Introverts,” and “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in A World That Can’t Stop Talking.” Her most recent book is “Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole.”

Cain was in conversation with Dr. Marc Brackett. Dr. Brackett is a professor in Yale University’s Child Study Center and founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence.

TAKE-AWAYS

John Mensik Glenbard North Principal hosted the noon event and shared the following takeaway:

“It was very insightful listening to the profound conversion between Susan Cain and Dr. Mark Brackett. Their perspective on the power and strengths of introverts provided me with a greater understanding of the struggles some teens have in an increasingly extroverted world. They encouraged caregivers to see the child in front of them, as he/she is with all the gifts they were given. Each child is unique and needs to be celebrated and acknowledged for their special talents and contributions.

As Cain affirms-don't think of introversion as something that needs to be cured. Everyone shines, given the right lighting”

Antoine Anderson Glenbard East Principal hosted the evening presentation and shared the following takeaway :

“Susan Cain and Bruce Feiler provided wisdom for caregivers to best equip their introverts with the skills needed to flourish in an extroverted culture.

Help them figure out their core passions, so they can build mastery which is much more important than self-esteem. With mastery, they will find connection.

Give your introverted child a ‘longer runway’ that they can take off from. They will get there if we honor their inner temperament and go outward from there. Parents and teachers need to be cautious in their feedback, with less judgement,  to lay the framework and appreciation for who the child truly is. This will go a long way as we celebrate and encourage their gifts and the richness inside their minds, helping bring their extraordinary talents and abilities to the world".

RESOURCES

Q and A from the GPS program  HERE

Susan Cain's TEDTalk 2012  HERE

Susan Cain and Min Kym: The hidden power of sad songs and rainy days TEDSummit 2019  HERE

Susan Cain's web site  HERE

Susan Cain's blog  HERE

PODCAST Quiet: The Power of Introverts with Susan Cain  HERE

The Quiet Manifesto

1. There is a word for “people who are in their heads too much”—thinkers.
2. Solitude is a catalyst for innovation.
3. The next generation of quiet kids can and must be raised to know their own strengths.
4. Sometimes it helps to be a pretend-extrovert. There is always time to be quiet later.
5. But in the long run, staying true to your temperament is the key to finding work you love and work that matters.
6. One genuine relationship is worth a fistful of business cards.
7. It’s okay to cross the street to avoid making small talk.
8. “Quiet leadership” is not an oxymoron.
9. Love is essential; gregariousness is optional.
10. “In a gentle way, you can shake the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi

Dr. Harold Koplewicz addresses adolescent depression, suicide in GPS webinar on September 21

The Glenbard Parent Series: (GPS) Navigating Healthy Families  hosted Harold Koplewicz, MD, the President of the Child Mind Institute in a program based on his best-selling book, More Than Moody as part of Glenbard's Suicide Prevention Awareness Month programming. 

Koplewicz discussed the growing problem of teenage depression in America and offered help to adults differentiate clinical depression from normal teenage angst, disappointment and sadness. Koplewicz explained how to recognize the warning signs of depression and suicide. His presentation explained how adults can counteract general anxiety in children and explained how to best provide them with steady and warm emotional nourishment.

Koplewicz is widely recognized as an innovator and master clinician. He is president of The Child Mind Institute, an independent nonprofit organization exclusively dedicated to transforming mental healthcare for children.

Presentation slides from this event, More Than Moody: how to understand teen depression and raise resilient and secure kids, can be found HERE

Click HERE for a recording of the program.

TAKE-AWAY

Janet Cook, Assistant Superintend of Student Services hosted the event and shared the following takeaway:

"In addressing the growing problem of teenage depression and suicide, world-renowned psychiatrist Dr. Harold Koplewicz likened the role of parents and educators to that of scaffolding used in the "construction project" of building up children. The main pillars are structure, support, and encouragement, while the intersecting planks are monitoring, awareness, warmth, patience, and dispassion (with calm constructive honesty). He describes “swooping in” to fix or handle issues for teens as tantamount to saying “You are incompetent and can’t do it without me.” The goal is to eventually take the scaffolding down when our teens are ready to stand on their own.

Koplewicz advises we prioritize factors that protect kids from depression and suicide, including family and school connectedness, academic engagement, and having future plans and goals. At home, he recommends investing time and attention early on and implementing rituals that make it easy to talk. We also need to engage in kids’ individual interest and use labeled praise (giving specific examples) when kids do positive and helpful things.

If changes in typical behavior point to a possible mental health challenge, be direct with questions about self-harm. Stay calm. Listen to understand their feelings from their point of view, and offer hope that solutions exist. In his closing comments, in response to a question, Dr. Koplewicz welcomed us to use the educational videos below (California Healthy Minds, Thriving Kids Project, under Resources). . They wonderfully support our Glenbard initiatives for student engagement, and offer caregivers information on essential mental health skills." 

RESOURCES

The California Healthy Minds, Thriving Kids Project, provides evidence-based resources to spark important conversations and teach your kids a set of essential mental health skills. These videos feature an engaging host and interviews with a diverse group of real kids. They teach key skills while normalizing the challenges kids face and sparking productive conversations.  There are 5 episodes in the series, each teaching a different mental health skill. Corresponding activity sheets summarize and reinforce key ideas in each video. You can watch the entire series in one session, or watch each episode individually :

• Series for Kids in Elementary School HERE (Child Mind Institute)
• Series for Kids in Middle School HERE (Child Mind Institute)
• Series for Kids in High School HERE (Child Mind Institute)

Videos:

• Koplewicz interviewing actor Emma Stone on her experience with anxiety HERE (YouTube Oct 1, 2018)
• Taking Time for Your Child in 60 seconds by Dr. Harold Koplewicz HERE (YouTube Jun 29, 2017)
• GRIT - Part 2: Resilience – Dr. Harold Koplewicz HERE (YouTube May 5, 2015)

Links: 

• COVID and Kids Mental Health from Child Mind Institute HERE
• 2021 Annual Report, Answering the Call: Scaling Support for Children’s Mental Health HERE
• Child Mind Institute Family Resource Center HERE

Lisa Heffernan and Mary Dell Harrington offer advice on launching teens and young adults

On May 3, 2022, Glenbard Parent Series hosted Grown and Flown: How to Support your Teen, Stay Close as a Family and Raise Independent Adults authors Lisa Heffernan and Mary Dell Harrington in a webinar.

Research confirms the role parents play in the later part of their children’s lives — from the final days of childhood to the threshold of adulthood — is as important as any other life stage. As the college years loom, young people are constantly changing and how we parent them must change 

Heffernan and Harrington's presentation was based on their book, “Grown and Flown: How to Support Your Teen, Stay Close as a Family, and Raise Independent Adults,” which features insights from current and former GPS speakers Lisa Damour, Lori Gottlieb, Ken Ginsburg, Frank Bruni and Rachel Simmons. Heffernan and Harrington will offered perspective on parenting and launching teens and young adults. They will addressed family life, mental health, love, academics, separating and letting go and college life.

Heffernan and Harrington, who are writers, started the online community Grown and Flown seven years ago. They were parenting teens and often felt isolated with their problems. They discovered the teen and young-adult parenting years were conspicuously devoid of resources and community. Today, Grown and Flown is recognized as the No. 1 website and online community for parents of teens, college students, and young adults.

Click here for a recording of the program. 

Takeaway

Glenbard East librarian Gabe Gancarz attended the event and shared the following takeaway: 

"Resist the urge to make high school all about college-don't take their high school years away from them. Don't talk about college too soon, or too often it's ok to keep some things private regarding the college search in conversation with friends and neighbors. And get out of the 1990s, those norms no longer apply - learn the facts. Sometimes kids are not looking for a solution, they are looking for an ear. Caregivers will wage the battle between helping them too little and helping them too much all of their lives. 

Resources

Grown and Flown web site 

Link to Off to College Checklist

Recording of this event on May 3, 2022

GPS speaker and panel to discusses effects of dependency on youth and families on April 19

 

Stephen Hill and addiction psychologist ​Dr. ​Aaron Weiner, and ​clinical psychologist ​Dr. Doug Bolton joined us for a Alcohol Awareness Month presentation on April 19, 2022.  

How does one of four brothers, raised in the same home by loving and supportive parents, end up addicted to drugs for more than a decade while his siblings followed a path to a healthy lifestyle? Hill places a great deal of emphasis on “prevention through protection” and pinpoints potential threats and warning signs for families.

Like other parents of youth addicts, Hill's parents experienced isolation, as well as emotional and financial hardship. Members of their community, friends, and family labeled their son with stigmas. After he hit rock bottom and entered his final treatment program, Hill began to put his life back together. Education, health, wellness and helping others became the top priorities in his life.

After completing his first year of sobriety, Hill was offered a full-time position to work at the same treatment program he went through. He returned to college and earned his J.D. from Brooklyn Law School. In May 2018, he published his memoir “A Journey to Recovery” which became a No. 1 new release in drug dependency on Amazon. 

Following Hill’s remarks, addiction psychologist Aaron Weiner and clinical psychologist Doug Bolton continued this important conversation, giving us  a better understanding of how to prevent and treat a substance use disorder.

For a video of the panel discussion and Q&A session from this event, click HERE 

Take-away

Jordan Esser, Community Initiatives Coordinator, DuPage County Health Department and Project Coordinator, DuPage County Prevention Leadership Team (PLT)

"As the Project Coordinator of the DuPage County Prevention Leadership Team (PLT), I focus primarily on substance use prevention and mental wellness for youth throughout DuPage. For that reason, the PLT is a proud sponsor and partner of the Glenbard Parent Series (GPS) and was happy to partner on the program on April 19th, Stephen Hill-A First Choice and a Second Chance. Stephen shared his truly compelling story about a young man who had an involved, supportive family, was a talented student athlete and good student but who went down a path that started with alcohol and marijuana use and high school and quickly escalated to an opioid addiction. His story is an example of how addiction can happen to anyone and can happen quickly. My main takeaway from this program is the importance of early prevention and talking with your kids about healthy choices, early and often. Although it may not always feel like it, research shows that over 80% of young people ages 10-18 say their parents are the leading influence on their decision whether to use alcohol and drugs. Our kids really do care what we think! That is why it is so important to have clear expectations about youth drug use and make those expectations known to your kids. Share facts with them about the health risks associated with alcohol and drug use during adolescent when their brains and bodies are still growing and the legal risks of underage drug use."

For more tips on how to have these important conversations with your teen, visit the DuPage County Prevention Leadership Team website at www.dupageplt.org. 

Resources

GPS Take 5 Preview of this event

Stephen Hill, Speak Sobriety web site

Web site for Dr. Aaron Weiner

Web site for Dr. Doug Bolton, Formative Psychological Services

Michele Icard provides a model for overcoming parent's language obstacles at GPS event on March 16, 2022

On March 16, the Glenbard Parent Series hosted Michelle Icard in programs based on her book, 14 Conversations You Need to Have by Age 14.

Author Michelle Icard provides a model for overcoming parent's language obstacles. Based on her most recent book, Fourteen Talks by Age Fourteen, Icard  guides parents of tweens and teens past their fears and challenges around covering “the important stuff” with their kids and into a confident enough position to have meaningful conversations where their kids will actually engage.  While the book covers fourteen topics, Icard included five from the book:  Becoming Independent, Keeping Creativity Alive, Taking Care of Yourself, Living with Technology, and Helping Others. 

Michelle Icard is a speaker, author, and educator who helps kids, 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 for the social and emotional changes parents and kids navigate when mid-life meets middle school under one roof.

Link here for a recording of the Q and A from the program:  https://youtu.be/ARDYsaKB76E

Community Consolidated School District 89 Superintendent Dr Emily Tammeru and Queen Bee School District 16 Superintendent Dr Joe Williams hosted the events and shared the following takeaway: 

"Icard calls the years from age 11-the mid 20s a ‘construction phase’.  It begins when tweens experience major changes to their brain, body and image, as their #1 fear becomes-am I normal? This period requires the adults in their lives to adapt, and be prepared for these normal, risk taking changes-as youth work to integrate with peers. They need us to pivot to the role of assistant manager, to ‘fix less and listen more’, empathize, get a hobby ('other than our children') and learn a new language in our communication with them: BRIEF, breathe, relate, interview, echo, give feedback. Try not to take these expected changes personally, and make time for fun, together."

RESOURCES

Web site for Michelle Icard

Lindsey Hein Podcast Episode 67: Michelle Icard – Fourteen Talks by Age Fourteen (Feb 8, 2022)

GPS Take 5: Parent Preview for this event with Michelle Icard

WGN interview with Icard  (Feb 26, 2021)