The NWS Parent Association presents three Parent Education Forums throughout the school year with themes relevant to raising middle school and high school students.
These evening events will be held in the Commons from 6:30–8:30 pm, unless otherwise indicated. Light refreshments and beverages will be served from 6:30–7:00, with the speaker promptly commencing at 7:00 pm.
Questions or Comments?
Please contact the Parent Education Chair, Susan Strauss
- Listen to Podcasts from our previous Parent Forums
2011–2012 Upcoming Parent Education Forums
NWS Co-Hosted Spring Event at Town Hall
Tuesday, March 6, 2012, 7:00 PM
Seattle Town Hall
Guest Speaker: Anthony Wolf, Ph.D.
Aliens on Planet Teen: A Survival Guide for Parents
Co-hosted with Seattle Academy of Arts and Sciences and University Prep
Join us and ParentMap for an enlightening evening. Dr. Anthony Wolf, a practicing clinical psychologist, speaker and author of many books on parenting, will talk about being marooned among volatile and seemingly incomprehensible aliens (aka teens and tweens), how to discover the drivers behind adolescent behavior, and offer insights for living together in peace at home. Dr. Wolf’s books include the best selling Get Out of My Life, but First Could You Drive Me & Cheryl to the Mall: A Parent’s Guide to the New Teenager and his newest book, I’d Listen to My Parents if They’d Just Shut Up: What to Say and Not Say When Parenting Teens. Known for rave reviews, knockout presentations and reassuring words, this is a great opportunity to make sure your parenting skills are keeping up with today’s teens.
Limited half price tickets, $10, available for purchase with NWS Coupon Code, see full event details below.
- Event Details
- Visit www.anthonywolf.com to learn more about Dr. Anthony Wolf
Spring Parent Education Forum with NWS Peer Mentors
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Guest Speaker: NWS Peer Mentors; Moderated by Amy Berner-Hays & Megan Reibel
Out of the Mouths of Babes: A Fishbowl with the NWS Peer Mentors
Come to the NWS fishbowl to hear the junior and senior peer mentors respond to parents' questions on a wide range of teen related topics. You will be amazed to hear the students talk candidly about all manners of relevant subjects such as: What does it really mean to "hook up"? How many teens really are experimenting with drugs and alcohol? Why do kids think it is crazy to keep parents posted on their whereabouts?
This event, moderated by the NWS school counselor, Megan Reibel, and Dean of Residential Life, Amy Berner-Hays, is certain be an informative, eye-opening session. The Fishbowl format is a great opportunity to gain insight into our teens’ viewpoint on parenting—what they want and what they need. You will leave this event with greater understanding and an enlightened perspective.
2011–2012 Past Parent Education Forums
Winter Parent Education Forum with Julie Metzger RN, MSN and Rob Lehman, MD
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Guest Speaker: Julie Metzger RN, MSN and Rob Lehman, MD
Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll—and Other Things—That Go Bump in the Night
As parents, it can be difficult to know how to communicate with our children about sex, sexuality and other high-risk behaviors. What information do our kids need to make smart decisions and form healthy relationships? What are the right questions to ask? How can we assess the risk and create a partnership of trust and respect? Julie Metzger and Rob Lehman, co-founders of Great Conversations, will share their insights on what teens are thinking, including gleanings from their work with our NWS 10th graders in the Fall 2011 sessions. They will discuss parental strategies that can help set the stage for open communication on critically important topics.
Julie Metzger, RN, MN is pediatric nurse, writer and educator. She is a well-respected and popular speaker, nurse consultant at Seattle Children’s Hospital and parent of three adolescent children. Julie is a co-founder of Great Conversations, a program focused on health education for families.
Robert Lehman, MD is a pediatrician specializing in Adolescent Medicine whose passion is promoting health care for teens as an educator, clinician, policy developer and writer. Over the years, Dr. Lehman has managed and practiced at teen clinics in a variety of settings. He has practiced and taught primary care, reproductive health, chronic care and other unique health care needs of youth to health care professionals from various disciplines. Robert is a co-founder of Great Conversations, a program focused on health education for families and is writing a book on puberty for boys.
Fall Parent Education Forum with Alan Braun
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Guest Speaker: Alan Braun, NWS Assistant Head of School
At Home in the World: Global Perspectives and The Northwest School Experience
Join Alan Braun, Assistant Head of School, for an evening of information, exploration, and discussion about what "global perspective" means at The Northwest School. By listening to the voices of international students and tapping into his own experiences living and teaching abroad, Alan will present insights and a framework for understanding The Northwest School's goal of "cultural competence." Alan will explore the idea that "cultural competence" is gained through experience and reflection, leading to the awareness and humility that allows one to move between cultures with agility.
Alan Braun was raised in Ghana, Africa interspersed with a year spent here and there in various places in the U.S. He is what sociologists term a “third culture kid”—children of diplomats, missionaries, career military officers, etc.—who have spent a significant portion of their formative years in cultures other than their parents’ native culture. Alan’s journey gives him a unique view on the concept of “culture”. We are fortunate to have Alan Braun, our Assistant Head of School, share his perspective and help shape our students’ high school experience at the NWS.