• Over-Scheduled Families by Robin Ordan, LCSW
• Your Child’s Mental Health – When is it Time to Get Help? by Erica Freed, PsyD
• Smart Phones: Smart Parenting by Lee Bowbeer, LCSW
• Promoting Adolescent Wellness by Sara Buchdahl Levine, MD, MPH, FAAP
• Teething to Teens – Preventive Dentistry Starts at Home by Alireza Namjoo, DDS
• Bully or Bullied? by Jody Breakell
• Greenwich Youth Services Coordinator’s Corner by Jenny Byxbee
• The Parent’s Together Newsletter – A Thirty Year Legacy Come to an End by Lori Jackson and Eileen Bartels, Co-Chairs, Parents Together
  

In this issue:

• Stranger Danger – Teaching Kids to Stay Safe by Kristen Tomasiewicz
• Fostering a Love of Reading in Young Children by Alice Sherwood
• Preschool to Kindergarten Transition – It Takes a “Community” by Dolores Kenny
• Embracing Differences – A Parenting Role by Lolli Ross and Luis Velazquez
• The Changing Face of the American Family by Linda Ziac
• Financial Dogpaddling by Stacia Morris
• Have a Job? Need a Job? Student Employment at GHS
• Prevention of Adolescent Sports Injuries by Michael Beecher
• The Coordinator’s Corner by Jenny Byxbee
• Thank you to our donors!

• Overscheduled Familes
• Teens, Tooth Decay and Teaching Healthy Habits for Toddler Teeth
• Smart Phones 
• Promoting Adolescent Wellness
• Supporting Your Childs Emotional Health

Greenwich Alliance for Education invites you to a discussion by Parent to Parent College Connection “College Planning Tips”.  Parent to Parent College Connection is a group of parents whose students recently graduated from Greenwich High School and are now attending colleges and universities throughout the country. Our mission is to be an experienced parent resource by providing support to parents through the college admissions process. We are a group of parents offering a parents’ perspective in an informal setting; we are not professional college counselors.

Our Goals:

• To offer practical tips  
• To share our own experiences
• To help reduce stress for Parents of Freshmen & Sophomores
• College Planning Tips for Parents of Freshmen & SophomoresWhen: Wednesday, October 13, 2010
  Time: 7:00 p.m.
  Where: Greenwich Library 101 West Putnam Ave
  2nd floor Conference Room
  Click here to download flyer
  Space is limited! Please RSVP before October 10 to: p2pcollegeconnection@gmail.com

The Cone Room, Greenwich Town Hall

They Only Get To Grow Up Once: Preventing Your Child’s Future Drug and Alcohol Use

Alison Birnbaum, LCSW, “Ask the Expert” at www.theAntiDrug.com,

See details in Past Events page – click here to view.

The Cone Room, Greenwich Town Hall

Avoiding Bullying, Cliques and Exclusion

by Meg Domino, MPH, CHES, Exec. Director, New Canaan Cares

Beginning in elementary school and escalating in middle school, aggression (generally physical with boys and emotional with girls) results in bullying, cliques, and exclusion. Learn how and why this happens and what you can do to prevent your child from being victim or aggressor.  Meg’s strategy session will provide you with a sampling of what our children fear, feel, and believe regarding friendships and social behaviors as well as offer tools to help build pro-social behaviors and avoid bullying. Click here for printable flyer.

• Teaching Compassion – The Right Thing To Do
  by Stuart Adelberg, parent and CEO & President of
  Greenwich United Way
• Be Involved in Your Child’s Education by Dr. Sydney Freund, Superintendent, Greenwich Public Schools
• Young Children and Anger by Suzanne Adam, Director, Domestic Abuse Services, Greenwich YWCA
• Why You Should Do Less for Kids by Dr. Paul J. Donahue, nationally recognized child and family psychologist
• Internet Safety – A Digital Dilemma by Richard J. Colangelo, Jr.,
  CT Senior Assistant State’s Attorney
• Sexting – Not for Your Eyes Only by Jody-Lynn Breakell,
  PT Newsletter Co-Publisher and B&B Consulting
• Teens and Dating Relationships – A Parent Primer by Suzanne Adam,
  Director, Domestic Abuse Services, Greenwich YWCA
• Family Fire Safety During the Holidays by Sheri Frost, American Red Cross
• Lock Your Meds by Jenny Byxbee, Greenwich Youth Services Coordinator for the
  Town of Greenwich and Greenwich United Way