Parenting with Wit and Wisdom: Raising Responsible, Resourceful, Resilient, Compassionate Human Beings
– Presented by Barbara Coloroso, MA

This presentation will offer solid, practical advice for parents on how to create a home environment in which children can become self-disciplined, compassionate, responsible, resourceful, and resilient, able to act in their own best interest, stand up for themselves, and exercise their own rights while respecting the rights and legitimate needs of others. The presenter will discuss the keys to good parenting: treating children with respect; giving them a sense of positive power in their own lives; giving them opportunities to make decisions, take responsibility for their actions, and learn from their successes and mistakes.

Barbara Coloroso is a bestselling author and internationally recognized speaker and consultant on parenting, teaching, school discipline, positive school climate, bullying, grieving, nonviolent conflict resolution and restorative justice.  Her uniquely effective parenting and teaching strategies were developed through her years of training in sociology, special education, and philosophy, as well as field-tested through her extensive experiences as a classroom teacher, laboratory school instructor, university instructor, seminar leader, volunteer in Rwanda, and mother of three grown children.