PTA Meeting W/Guest Speaker Tuesday, Oct 20

[Aspen Creek PTA]

Please Join the Aspen Creek PTA for our next meeting on Tuesday,
October 20th. Dinner will be at 6, the business meeting starts at
6:30. Dinner will be sloppy joes, salad, chips, dessert and drink.
Cost is $3 for adults and $2 for kids.

The business portion of our meeting will be short, so we will have
plenty of time to listen to acclaimed local author and guest speaker
Dr. Joanne Stern. Her book, "Parenting is a Contact Sport: 8 Ways to
Stay Connected to Your Kids For Life" has been rated 5 stars on
Amazon.com.

She will speak on the following topics:


What it Really Means to Have a Good Relationship with Your Kids and
Why You Want to Have One

The Greatest Gift You Can Give Your Kids – Communication

Effective Discipline Through Relationship

Promoting Your Kids’ Self-Esteem – How Important is Your Role?


In PARENTING IS A CONTACT SPORT: 8 Ways To Stay Connected To Your Kids
For Life, author and psychotherapist, Dr. Joanne Stern helps parents
build permanent and powerful relationships with their children that
will see them through many tough challenges. Skillfully balancing
information from her twenty years as a therapist and her experience as
the mother of two girls, the author guides the reader through the
biggest problem areas of parenting, including communication,
discipline, belonging, honesty and self-esteem. Readers will learn
that the key is to establish a connection through physical, verbal and
even unspoken contact. Parenting Is A Contact Sport will stimulate
thinking about families and provide courage to improve, renew, or
repair damaged relationships. With specific behavioral advice
supported by anecdotal material, Dr. Stern coaches readers through the
tough spots of making contact and deepening bonds – in the present and
for the future.

Dr. Joanne Stern has been a psychotherapist for more than twenty years
and a parent for thirty-three years, including five as a single mom.
As an expert in family relationships and communication, she has taught
parenting classes and worked with families and their children. She
holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Northwestern University, a
double Master’s in counseling and theology from Fuller Theological
Seminary and a PhD in human and organizational systems from Fielding
Graduate University.

Her website is www.PARENTINGISACONTACTSPORT.com

The book PARENTING IS A CONTACT SPORT: 8 Ways To Stay Connected To
Your Kids For Life will be available for purchase at the meeting for
$14.95.

Hope to see you there!

Aspen Creek PTA Board of Directors