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VIRTUAL: Fourteen Talks by Age Fourteen: The Essential Conversations You Need to Have with Your Kids, a FAN webinar featuring Michelle Icard, in conversation with Heidi Stevens

January 24, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Fourteen Talks by Age Fourteen from FAN’s  partner bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Icard and Stevens that will start immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.   

REGISTER: www.bit.ly/IcardFANWebinar

Trying to convince a middle schooler to listen to you can seem like a herculean task. At times, it can even  feel like the best option is to avoid talking! But keeping kids safe and prepared is all about having the right  conversations at the right time. And from a brain growth and emotional readiness perspective, there’s no  better time for this than during their tween years right up to when they enter high school. 

In Fourteen Talks by Age Fourteen: The Essential Conversations You Need to Have with Your Kids Before  They Start High School, speaker, author, and educator Michelle Icard distills her decades of experience  working with families to address those big, thorny topics, including friendship, sexuality, impulsivity, and  technology as well as unexpected conversations about creativity, hygiene, money, privilege, and contributing  to the family. 

Icard is a member of the TODAY show parenting team and NBC News Learn. The author of Middle School  Makeover, her work has been featured in the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, The Christian Science  Monitor, Redbook, Time, and People.  

Icard will be in conversation with Heidi Stevens, the creative director for Parent Nation, a new initiative at the  University of Chicago’s TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health. Prior to joining Parent Nation, Stevens  worked at the Chicago Tribune for 23 years, where she wrote a daily column called “Balancing Act.” She was  awarded the Anne Keegan Award for Distinguished Journalism in 2018. Stevens maintains a nationally  syndicated column once a week. 

This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on our website and YouTube channel. 

Sponsored by Family Action Network (FAN), in partnership with Baker Demonstration School, Beacon Academy,  Bennett Day School, Catherine Cook School, Chiaravalle Montessori School, Christ Church Winnetka, Compass  Health Center, Countryside Day School, Edgewood Middle School PTO, Family Service Center, Family Service of  Glencoe, Foundation 65, Fusion Academy, Glencoe D35, Haven Youth and Family Services, Highland Park Public  Library, Highwood Public Library and Community Center, Hyde Park Day School, Kenilworth D38, Lake Bluff D65,  Lake Forest Country Day School, Lake Forest D67, Lake Michigan Association of Independent Schools, Latin  School of Chicago, Loyola Academy, Mindful Psychology Associates, Near North Montessori School, New Trier  High School D203, New Trier Parents’ Association, North Shore Country Day, Pope John XXIII School, Regina  Dominican High School, Rogers Park Montessori School, Roycemore School, Sacred Heart Schools, School of  Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University, Science & Arts Academy, Spirit of 67, St. Athanasius  School, Stevenson High School D125, The Alliance for Early Childhood, The Avery Coonley School, The Family  Institute at Northwestern University, and the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools Parents’ Association. 

Details

Date:
January 24, 2022
Time:
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm