Parent University

Saturday, February 6, 2010 

8:00 a.m. - 2:15 p.m.
Neuqua Valley High School
$30/person for full day (half-day option available for $20/person)

Sponsored by Indian Prairie School District 204, Naperville School District 203 and the Collaborative Youth Team, Parent University is a day of workshops designed to share effective positive parenting strategies for children in preschool through high school.

The schedule for the 2010 Parent University is as follows (half day option is shaded):

Check-in/Continental Breakfast	8:00 AM
Introductions (15 minutes)	8:30-8:45 AM
Keynote Speaker (1 ½ hours)	8:45-10:15 AM
Session A Workshop (1 ½ hours)	10:25-11:55 AM
Lunch (45 minutes)	11:55 AM-12:40 PM
Session B Workshop (1 ½ hours)	12:40-2:10 PM
Turn in Evaluations	2:15 PM

Attendees at the 2010 Parent University will hear keynote speaker Gloria DeGaetano talk about “Parenting Well in a Media Age.”  Gloria is founder and CEO of The Parent Coaching Institute, (PCI) and an internationally and nationally acclaimed educator, author, and speaker.

Attendees will also be able to choose two workshops from 14 offerings presented by local child and adolescent development experts. During lunch, attendees will have the opportunity to chat informally with presenters and pick up information from a variety of community social service agencies regarding the health and well-being of children, youth and families.

To register, please click here to open the Parent University booket and registration form. Print, complete, and mail registration with payment as directed on the form.

A list of Parent University Frequently Asked Questions is also available.

Gloria DeGaetano

In our screen-saturated society parents are continually bombarded with choices—choices that are not always easy to make and choices that often have unintended consequences. Gloria DeGaetano has spent over 25 years addressing parents concerns about media related issues. In this keynote, she shares important information from her book, Parenting Well in a Media Age, showing how mass media impacts the emerging self-identity of our kids and how that, in turn, determines their behaviors, attitudes, and values. She will outline a “sane parenting plan” to make sure kids grow up in this media age with a strong sense of self and that they understand how to control screen technologies—not be controlled by them.

“Since the screen machine dominates so much of daily life, the tasks of parenting have changed significantly. While we are all in uncharted waters, I know that the solutions and framework I provide have significantly helped thousands of moms and dads,” DeGaetano states. In this presentation she will describe the new parenting tasks fundamental to our times, with a focus on what she has termed "The Vital Five™"— five developmental needs that often get shortchanged in a media-driven society — and show you how to how to meet those needs for your children and teens in daily decision-making.