Harness The Power Of Parenting Groups To Lessen Your Workload While Helping Your Students And Parents Succeed In Tough Times
Managing The Teen And Tween Years As A School Professional Is Easier When You Have The Right Tools
- Do you feel overwhelmed, scattered between too many projects with too little time?
- Are your anxious about not being able or knowing how to help a student in need?
- Have you experienced the satisfaction that comes from taking preventative action but struggled to balance this with your day-to-day work?
Dear School Professional,
My name is Kathy Masarie. Over the past 27 years, I am humbled to share what I have learned… learning that has helped 1000s of school professionals and parents raise healthy and successful children through their pre-teen and teen years.
The secret?
- My easy-to-understand and field-tested parenting guides, Raising Our Sons and Raising Our Daughters
- Leveraging years of wisdom from parents through group discussion.
How Raising Our Sons/Daughters Parenting Groups Can Help And Why You Should Care
As a professional, you’ll get the following benefits:
- Have resources at your fingertips with research-based materials from over 500 sources and 120 authors.
- Educate groups of parents to parent effectively around child and adolescent issues rather than focusing on individual parents.
- Lessen the workload on your counselors, vice principals and other school staff by shifting parents from reactive parenting to proactive parenting.
- Promote preventative school counseling.
- Teach parents to prepare for the tween and teen years.
- Share with the parent and school communities the importance of kids being bonded to home and school in order to prevent high-risk adolescent behaviors.
- Build Developmental Assets for your school and community by sponsoring discussion groups based on our Guides.
- Give direction to your PTA or PTSA by involving them in setting up discussion groups.
- Help your school counselors or vice principal to participate with the local parent community by sponsoring Raising Our Sons and Raising Our Daughters groups.
Don’t take my word for it. Discover the power of Raising Our Sons and Raising Our Daughters parenting groups through the words of other school professionals:
Raising Our Sons and Raising Our Daughters Helped Me Become A Better Resource In My School
Maureen “Moe” Caryl, Child Development Specialist, Portland, Oregon
The Parenting Groups Were So Popular That We Had Six Different Groups Start In Two Years
“Raising Our Sons and Raising Our Daughters parenting groups were so popular in our middle school that we had six different groups start in two years. The best outcome is the connection that parents experience by being part of the groups—something that I, as a counselor, cannot give—it comes from being part of a community. Raising Our Sons and Raising Our Daughters promotes that over and over.”
Holly Van Edmunds, Middle-School Counselor and mother of two sons, Portland, Oregon
No One Else In The Community Has Gathered Such A Great Array Of Articles
Dana Goss, MPH, School Counselor, and parent of two sons and a daughter
This Collection Of Excellent Writings… Is A Powerful Springboard For Discussions (Between Parents)
“As a school counselor, I focus on creating a culture of respect and caring and find that Raising Our Sons and Raising Oour Daughters parent discussion groups are a very useful vehicle. This collection of excellent writings, organized around the developmental trajectory of childhood, is a powerful springboard for discussions. We rotated the leadership of the meetings, which led to every member feeling valued. The resulting relationships formed a great foundation for these parents to draw on for years to come.”
Anne Santa, PhD, School Counselor, parent of two adult sons, Yonkers, New York
I’m Interested, But How Do I Learn More About Each Parenting Guide?
No problem. Detailed information on each guide can be found from the following links:
Raising Our Daughters: The Ultimate Parenting Guide for Healthy Girls and Thriving Families
Raising Our Sons: The Ultimate Parenting Guide for Healthy Boys and Strong Families
To your professional success,
Kathy Masarie