Woodinville Montessori School presents Laura Kastner, Ph.D.
Raising a happy and successful teenager is a challenge for any parent, even the most patient and wisest among us. Parenting adolescents requires all sorts of skills that most of us don't naturally possess. In this workshop you'll learn how to tap your “wise mind” to calmly navigate even the stormiest of parenting moments. You'll learn how to preserve your loving relationship while encouraging progress towards the seven essentials of happy, healthy teens: secure attachment to parents, self-control, academic success, social thriving, emotional flourishing, strong character, physical health.
With humor, wisdom and a deep understanding of the teenaged brain, Dr. Kastner, author of “Getting to Calm: Cool-Headed Strategies for Parenting Tweens and Teens,” provides clear and useful tools for parents, giving them effective new ways to manage their own emotions in the heat of the moment with their teen while maintaining—and even gaining—closeness.
Dr. Kastner is a clinical professor in the departments of Psychology and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington. She has written five books for parents on child development and parenting, numerous academic articles and many parenting articles. She also has a private practice. For more information, see www.laurakastnerphd.com.
