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THE BIGGEST JOB - FREE TEEN PARENTING WORKSHOP WITH LAURA GAULD
Parents, educators, and professionals
interested in learning ways to address the myriad challenges adults face in
raising children and teenagers, and discovering essential skills that can
support and guide them in their efforts, will have two opportunities to attend
parenting coach Laura Gauld’s free workshop: Parenting: The Biggest Job We’ll Ever Have on Monday, March 24 (8:30-11:00am) at
Western Elementary School (100 Pine Street) in Naugatuck.
The interactive workshop, praised for its
high-energy and heartfelt, yet at times humorous approach, focuses on 10
Priorities outlined in the parenting book, The Biggest Job We’ll Ever Have
(Scribner), which Gauld co-wrote with her husband, Malcolm Gauld.
Gauld is the founder of the workshops; she is
also Executive Director of Hyde Schools, a network of public and private
schools, whose pioneering family-based character development philosophy has
been profiled on 60 Minutes, 20/20, Today, PBS and NPR.
She draws on three decades of experience as an education and parenting expert
to offer an upbeat, interactive workshop providing invaluable information on
issues affecting families and the critical roles of adults relative to those
issues.
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The workshops are focused on the common
pitfalls of parenting—what works, what doesn’t, and how shifting focus from the
child to the child’s attitude, character, and full potential can result in a
win-win for the entire family.
Gauld’s good humor and use of mantras in
recounting her own parenting blunders gives this workshop a burst of
inspiration and leaves her audience wanting more.
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To learn more about Parenting: The Biggest
Job, visit www.biggestjob.com.
For additional information, please contact Pam
Hardy at 207.504.6792 or phardy@hyde.edu
About
Parenting: The Biggest Job
The
Biggest Job parenting program, which reflects 40 years of collective experience
of Hyde School’s Family Program, has a simple philosophy: parents and guardians
are the primary teachers, and the home is the primary classroom. The job of
parenting asks us to accept and honor a commitment to develop the best in our
children, the best in our families and the best in ourselves. It is based
on 10 Priorities, designed to help us with our personal growth by offering a
framework to guide our efforts as parents. We find that focusing on ourselves
will often start a ripple effect that inspires those around us to do the same.
Our kids are never too old, nor too young, for us to become exceptional
parents. Learn more about the 10 Priorities at www.biggestjob.com.
