Conventional wisdom is that there is no manual on parenting. Yet the last two decades have seen a flood of books, articles, seminars, and workshops on how to parent or how to work with adolescents in the classroom. Research on brain development has also exploded in the last few years, promising to help us further fine-tune the way we understand and parent, especially adolescents.
Practical Help for Parents Workshops and Presentations are designed to help parents and educators make sense of this important material, to provide smart and quick—but not simplistic—research-based best practices on parenting adolescents and pre-adolescents. The workshops are available in one and two-hour formats to make scheduling easy, and in half or full-day formats for parents or educators who want more in-depth exploration of ideas and hands-on training.
One- and two-hour presentations would be suitable for:
 evening parent forum;
morning coffee;
keynote address;
monthly PTA meeting of the parent education committee;
parent or student assembly;
weekday in-service teacher training.
The following is a sample of our most popular workshops and presentations.
Downloadable program descriptions are available in PDF format as noted below. Workshop hand-outs include copies of the presentation, bibliographies, and ancillary materials such as research articles. Fees vary depending upon participant numbers and location. Please write for information not listed here.
A Primer for Parents on Adolescent Mental Health:
 Understanding Depression, Anxiety, Eating Disorders
and Self-Injury
A Primer for Parents on Adolescent Sexuality
A Primer for Parents on Drug Use and Abuse
A Primer for Parents on High School: A Year-by-Year Guide
of What To Expect
Academic Integrity in High School: Understanding and
Responding to Plagiarism and Cheating
Adolescent Brain Development: News from the Front*
Bullying, Harassment and Aggression in Middle School*
Bullying, Harassment and Aggression in High School*
Chatting, Gaming and Pornography: Understanding the
Challenges of the Online World*
Close the Door on the Way Out! Teens and Privacy
Fathers and Fathering: What Do Our Teens Need from Us
as Men?
Helping Your Teen Negotiate College Application Stress
Is There Only One Way to Succeed at Life? Teens and the
Misery of Maintaining Status
Learned Optimism: Is it Possible to Depression-Proof
Your Child?**
Parenting Teens: What’s Normal and Expectable?*
School Crisis Response: Is Your School Prepared for
Critical Incidents?**
Teaching Values and Responsibility
Teens, Drugs and Parties
American Teens and Raunch Culture: What's Happening to Sex?
Understanding Eating Disorders and Disordered Eating
Understanding Cutting and Other Forms of Self-Injury
Understanding Teens: Translating What Teens Mean to Say
But Can’t Say*
Understanding Your Middle-School Child
*Also available as a half-day workshop
**Also available as a full-day workshop
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