GPS Presents Essential Communication and Life Skills: A Kid’s Guide to Growing Up

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This event will be presented virtually.  The link to log in to this webinar from your computer, tablet or phone is https://glenbard.zoom.us/j/84247556321
 

Have you ever wished for a guidebook of essential life skills you could share with your tween or teen?  Witty parenting writer and etiquette columnist Catherine Newman is here to help with skill building to improve family work-life balance, nudge children to independence, and teach them what they need to know.

Here are tips, tricks, and advice to help youth master chores, brush up on communication skills, and behave generously around other humans. Participants will learn how to encourage children to be more dependable, free from parental nagging while assisting kids to develop the skills to express themselves clearly and succeed in the world.

Catherine Newman PhD has written about kids, parents, teenagers, and relationships in books (novels, and nonfiction) magazines, and newspapers, including The New York Times, O the Oprah Magazine, Self, and Parents. She is the etiquette columnist at Real Simple and the Academic Department Coordinator of the Creative Writing Center at Amherst College.