[CCHS] Presentation Wednesday 3-31-10 7-9 pm Alcott School: Laura Kastner - Getting to Calm: Parenting Strategies with Teens

[Linda Miller]

Getting to Calm:  Parenting strategies with teens
Laura Kastner, Ph.D.

 

Alcott School - Wednesday, March 31, 2010 7 pm - 9 pm



*	Despite your best parenting efforts, has your sunny, delightful
child become more surly, lazy and unreliable? 
The disrespectful, defiant, moody phase is nothing new.  What is new is the
science of why. 

 

*	Recent brain-imaging studies have documented how the thinking part
of the brain is literally "under construction" during the teen years.
During this process of brain maturation, neural connections are wiped out,
giving way to a period of high vulnerability for emotional volatility, poor
reasoning skills and parental button-pushing.  

 

*	If you find yourself longing for the good old preschool days, take
heart!  Adolescence is also a time of great opportunity for developing
essential cognitive and emotional skills. Come develop tools you can use to
navigate the rocky times with your teens, meet your parenting goals and
enhance your parent-teen relationships.

 

Dr. Laura Kastner, Ph.D., will discuss illuminative research on teen brain
changes and the dynamics of emotional regulation.  She will enable us to use
this information for more effective parenting and provide useful tips for
keeping "cool-headed" so we can choose how to best handle the classic
challenges of adolescence. 


Dr. Kastner is a clinical associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral
science at the University of Washington and a nationally-recognized expert
on teen development and behavior.  She is also a practicing clinical
psychologist and co-author, with Jennifer F. Wyatt, of The Seven Year
Stretch: How Families Work Together To Grow Through Adolescence, The
Launching Years:  Strategic Parenting From the Senior Year to College Life,
and Getting to Calm:  Cool-Headed Strategies for Parenting Teens and Tweens.

See her web site: www.gettingtocalm.com. 

 

 

This Program is sponsored by the Concord-Carlisle Parents Initiative

 

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