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This Sunday we are starting a new seminar called CRASH: Surviving Adolescence.
Basically it’s Ray and I putting together over 30+ years of mistakes in the same place so hopefully others will not make the same ones.
I’m pumped for the seminar for a couple of reasons.
First, it’s giving me face time with over 20 parents for 4 straight weeks. That’s a huge deal.
Second reason, my job is to facilitate discussion and sometimes the best advice doesn’t come from me but from a parent who has been there/done that and now is vulnerable enough to talk about it. That’s priceless.
Parenting is hard. Sometimes I think we make it harder by not being real about our junk. I’m hoping this provides an arena for us to be real.
The last reason I’m pumped about it - it’s going to allow me to blatantly steal the incredible series of post that Marko has just finished doing called “Thoughts For Parents Of Young Teens”. Here’s the latest post.
If you are interested - shoot me an email or comment.
6 responses so far ↓
1 Kitty // Jan 3, 2007 at 12:02 pm
Are you going to record this? We could REALLY use it!
2 wayne // Jan 3, 2007 at 6:06 pm
yeah, if you podcast it I might actually listen to it
3 Rowland // Jan 3, 2007 at 6:20 pm
If you run out of “mistakes”, email me and I’ll shoot you a couple of hundred real quick from my adolescence.
4 Linda // Jan 3, 2007 at 7:39 pm
I am the mom of a college kid, a high schooler, and a grade schooler. There are no answers! Because you never know what is going to come your way.
In the past few years we have dealt with: teenage break-up, my straight A student getting a D, death of best friends, other friends having parents die, freshmen move-in day, spending most of basketball season on the bench, trips to state in sports and music, schoarships and awards. The ups and downs are never ending. But I would not trade it for anything, because even on the worst of days its good to be the mom.
5 kris // Jan 4, 2007 at 6:59 am
amen to Linda! G, your seminar sounds like a really good idea … just get people talking, asking questions, listening … hope you get a great turn out!
6 Grant // Jan 4, 2007 at 2:45 pm
We’ve got 11 parents - 22 people. I think I’m going to close it for now. If the thing gets too big - it becomes more of a class than a depot of swapping stories and encouraging each other.
Linda - WOW. What great insight (maturity) to see the light in the middle of much darkness.
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