Glenbard Parent Series: How to Talk to Kids About Anything and Make Tough Talks Easier

Don't panic. While we know that the first step to connecting deeply with our kids is being able to communicate empathize and answer their biggest queries what do you do when that tricky-to-answer question comes out of the blue? Sometimes we just don't know what to say s......More

Don't panic. While we know that the first step to connecting deeply with our kids is being able to communicate empathize and answer their biggest queries what do you do when that tricky-to-answer question comes out of the blue? Sometimes we just don't know what to say so we simply change the subject or give a quick throwaway answer―and hope it doesn't come up again. Dr. Robyn Silverman host of the How to Talk to Kids About Anything Parenting Podcast gets it. A child development specialist and mom she'll stick with you every step of the way. In this book Dr. Robyn takes you through the whole spectrum of kids' curious questions giving you the strategies and scripts to prepare you for life's most challenging conversations. That way your kids get age-appropriate information straight from you their trusted source rather than from peers the media or the internet. You'll learn how to develop calm well-thought-out answers to tricky questions on subjects including death sex friendship divorce money and more.Dr. Robyn J.A. Silverman is an internationally recognized speaker author success coach & educator on Parenting Character Education and Body Image. She has been featured on numerous TV shows including The Today Show and Good Morning America and has contributed to various publications such as The Washington Post and Parents Magazine. With a Ph.D. in Child and Adolescent Development Dr. Silverman specializes in teaching social-emotional skills and character education to parents teachers and children. She has authored several books including &ldquo Good Girls Don't Get Fat&rdquo and &ldquo How to Talk to Kids About Anything&rdquo This free online presentation is part of the Glenbard Parent Series. More info: www.glenbardgps.org

Glenbard Parent Series: How to Talk to Kids About Anything and Make Tough Talks Easier

Don't panic. While we know that the first step to connecting deeply with our kids is being able to communicate empathize and answer their biggest queries what do you do when that tricky-to-answer question comes out of the blue? Sometimes we just don't know what to say s......More

Don't panic. While we know that the first step to connecting deeply with our kids is being able to communicate empathize and answer their biggest queries what do you do when that tricky-to-answer question comes out of the blue? Sometimes we just don't know what to say so we simply change the subject or give a quick throwaway answer―and hope it doesn't come up again. Dr. Robyn Silverman host of the How to Talk to Kids About Anything Parenting Podcast gets it. A child development specialist and mom she'll stick with you every step of the way. In this book Dr. Robyn takes you through the whole spectrum of kids' curious questions giving you the strategies and scripts to prepare you for life's most challenging conversations. That way your kids get age-appropriate information straight from you their trusted source rather than from peers the media or the internet. You'll learn how to develop calm well-thought-out answers to tricky questions on subjects including death sex friendship divorce money and more.Dr. Robyn J.A. Silverman is an internationally recognized speaker author success coach & educator on Parenting Character Education and Body Image. She has been featured on numerous TV shows including The Today Show and Good Morning America and has contributed to various publications such as The Washington Post and Parents Magazine. With a Ph.D. in Child and Adolescent Development Dr. Silverman specializes in teaching social-emotional skills and character education to parents teachers and children. She has authored several books including &ldquo Good Girls Don't Get Fat&rdquo and &ldquo How to Talk to Kids About Anything&rdquo This free online presentation is part of the Glenbard Parent Series. More info: www.glenbardgps.org

Full day of student attendance

April 29 was scheduled to be a School Improvement Day but it will now be a regular full day of attendance. (Any students who cannot attend due to previously scheduled events will have an excused absence.)That change will move the last day of the 2023-24 school year to a......More

April 29 was scheduled to be a School Improvement Day but it will now be a regular full day of attendance. (Any students who cannot attend due to previously scheduled events will have an excused absence.)That change will move the last day of the 2023-24 school year to a half day for students (morning attendance) on Friday, May 31. Student dismissal on the half-day will be at 11:15 a.m. for Glen Crest Middle School and 11:50 a.m. for elementary schools.The updated calendar can be viewed here: www.ccsd89.org/2324calendarRead more: https://bit.ly/3TI5PV1

Glenbard Parent Series: And Then They Stopped Talking to Me: Surviving Middle School

Through the stories of kids and parents in the middle school trenches Judith Warner reveals why these years are so painful how parents unwittingly make them worse and what we all need to do to grow up.The French have a name for the uniquely hellish years between element......More

Through the stories of kids and parents in the middle school trenches Judith Warner reveals why these years are so painful how parents unwittingly make them worse and what we all need to do to grow up.The French have a name for the uniquely hellish years between elementary school and high school: l'â ge ingrat or &ldquo the ugly age.&rdquo Characterized by a perfect storm of developmental changes&mdash physical psychological and social&mdash the middle school years are a time of great distress for children and parents alike marked by hurt isolation exclusion competition anxiety and often outright cruelty. Some of this is inevitable there are intrinsic challenges to early adolescence. But these years are harder than they need to be and Judith Warner believes that adults are complicit.With deep insight and compassion Warner walks us through a new understanding of the role that middle school plays in all our lives. She argues that today's helicopter parents are overly concerned with status and achievement&mdash in some ways a residual effect of their own middle school experiences&mdash and that this worsens the self-consciousness self-absorption and social &ldquo sorting&rdquo so typical of early adolescence.Tracing a century of research on middle childhood and bringing together the voices of social scientists psychologists educators and parents Warner's book shows how adults can be moral role models for children making them more empathetic caring and resilient. She encourages us to start treating middle schoolers as the complex people they are holding them to high standards of kindness and helping them see one another as more than &ldquo jocks and mean girls nerds and sluts.&rdquo Judith Warner author of the new book And Then They Stopped Talking to Me: Making Sense of Middle School is best known for her 2005 New York Times best-seller Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety and New York Times column &ldquo Domestic Disturbances.&rdquo She is a Journalism Fellow for the Women Donors Network's Reflective Democracy Campaign and recently co-authored The New Campaign Playbook: Bold Ideas for Running Winning and Transforming America with Miti Sathe and Will Levitt of Square One Politics.A former special correspondent for Newsweek in Paris she hosted &ldquo The Judith Warner Show&rdquo on XM satellite radio from 2005 to 2007 and wrote the 1993 best-seller Hillary Clinton: The Inside Story as well as several other books.This free online presentation is part of the Glenbard Parent Series. More info: www.glenbardgps.org

Glenbard Parent Series: And Then They Stopped Talking to Me: Surviving Middle School

Through the stories of kids and parents in the middle school trenches Judith Warner reveals why these years are so painful how parents unwittingly make them worse and what we all need to do to grow up.The French have a name for the uniquely hellish years between element......More

Through the stories of kids and parents in the middle school trenches Judith Warner reveals why these years are so painful how parents unwittingly make them worse and what we all need to do to grow up.The French have a name for the uniquely hellish years between elementary school and high school: l'â ge ingrat or &ldquo the ugly age.&rdquo Characterized by a perfect storm of developmental changes&mdash physical psychological and social&mdash the middle school years are a time of great distress for children and parents alike marked by hurt isolation exclusion competition anxiety and often outright cruelty. Some of this is inevitable there are intrinsic challenges to early adolescence. But these years are harder than they need to be and Judith Warner believes that adults are complicit.With deep insight and compassion Warner walks us through a new understanding of the role that middle school plays in all our lives. She argues that today's helicopter parents are overly concerned with status and achievement&mdash in some ways a residual effect of their own middle school experiences&mdash and that this worsens the self-consciousness self-absorption and social &ldquo sorting&rdquo so typical of early adolescence.Tracing a century of research on middle childhood and bringing together the voices of social scientists psychologists educators and parents Warner's book shows how adults can be moral role models for children making them more empathetic caring and resilient. She encourages us to start treating middle schoolers as the complex people they are holding them to high standards of kindness and helping them see one another as more than &ldquo jocks and mean girls nerds and sluts.&rdquo Judith Warner author of the new book And Then They Stopped Talking to Me: Making Sense of Middle School is best known for her 2005 New York Times best-seller Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety and New York Times column &ldquo Domestic Disturbances.&rdquo She is a Journalism Fellow for the Women Donors Network's Reflective Democracy Campaign and recently co-authored The New Campaign Playbook: Bold Ideas for Running Winning and Transforming America with Miti Sathe and Will Levitt of Square One Politics.A former special correspondent for Newsweek in Paris she hosted &ldquo The Judith Warner Show&rdquo on XM satellite radio from 2005 to 2007 and wrote the 1993 best-seller Hillary Clinton: The Inside Story as well as several other books.This free online presentation is part of the Glenbard Parent Series. More info: www.glenbardgps.org

CCSD 89 spring orchestra concerts at Glenbard South

At Glenbard South High School

Spring chorus concert at Glen Crest

Board of Education meeting

The Board will meet at 7 p.m. Monday, May 20, in the district office at 22W600 Butterfield Road, Glen Ellyn. All meetings are open to the public. Links to board meeting broadcasts are available at www.ccsd89.org/domain/3870Full agendas and minutes for all board meetings......More

The Board will meet at 7 p.m. Monday, May 20, in the district office at 22W600 Butterfield Road, Glen Ellyn. All meetings are open to the public. Links to board meeting broadcasts are available at www.ccsd89.org/domain/3870Full agendas and minutes for all board meetings can be found at www.ccsd89.org/board

CCSD 89 spring band concert at Glen Crest

NO SCHOOL (Memorial Day)

All CCSD 89 schools will be closed for Memorial Day. School will resume on a regular schedule on Tuesday, May 28.

Last day of school

The last day of the 2023-24 school year is a half day for students (morning attendance) on Friday, May 31. Student dismissal on the half-day will be at 11:15 a.m. for Glen Crest Middle School and 11:50 a.m. for elementary schools.The updated calendar can be viewed here:......More

The last day of the 2023-24 school year is a half day for students (morning attendance) on Friday, May 31. Student dismissal on the half-day will be at 11:15 a.m. for Glen Crest Middle School and 11:50 a.m. for elementary schools.The updated calendar can be viewed here: www.ccsd89.org/2324calendarRead more: https://bit.ly/3TI5PV1