Harvard Professor to Engage with Mount Vernon Parents
On Monday morning, September 26, during this year’s second installment of Parent University, Mount Vernon parents will have the opportunity to Skype with Richard Weissbourd, a child and family psychologist, Harvard professor, and author of The Parents We Mean To Be.
Mount Vernon’s newly inaugurated Parents University offers parents a variety of opportunities to learn and grow together as a community. To that end, Dr Kelli Bynum, Krissy King, Shelley Clifford, Jen Conrad, and Tyler Thigpen will be facilitating a book-study conversation surrounding Prof. Weissbourd’s award winning exploration of how well intended adults sometimes undermine children’s moral and emotional development.
Per his website, Prof Weissbourd, “approaches his subject as a psychologist and from the front lines of parenting as a father of three, and a former volunteer basketball coach. He is acutely aware of the daily challenges parents face in raising children, and his objective is to offer an encouraging road map to all that parents are doing right, and where they may consider correcting course. He writes, ‘What matters most as a parent is not whether my wife and I are ‘perfect’ role models or how much we talk about values, but the hundreds of ways – as living, breathing, imperfect human beings—we influence our children in the complex, messy relationships we have with them day to day.’”
The first installment of Parent University will occur Tuesday, September 13, at 8:15am in the Glenn Campus Media Center. The second, which involves Prof Weissbourd, will occur Monday, September 26, 8:45am in the Founders Campus Media Center.
All MVPS parents are invited!
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