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GPS to present communication tips to increase family connection
Dr. Wendy Mogel speaks on Oct 29, 7pm at Glenbard South and Oct 30, noon at Marquardt Administration Center
The Glenbard Parent Series: (GPS) Navigating Healthy Families will present Voice Lessons for Parents: What to Say, How to Say it and When to Listen with
Wendy Mogel at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 29, at Glenbard South High School, 23W200 Butterfield Road in Glen Ellyn. This program will be repeated at noon Wednesday, Oct. 30, at Marquardt School District 15 administration center, 1860 Glen Ellyn Road in Glendale Heights.
Parents/caregivers sometimes find they use tone or body language that doesn’t create the desired outcome with their children. When teens are confronted with messages that come across as pleading, annoyed, condescending, wounded, or outraged, that delivery style overpowers the content of the message.
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Mogel has developed voice lessons to assist adults in communicating with children at every stage of life. She demonstrates how a shift in tone, tempo and body language can lead to children who respond by cooperating with greater eagerness and communicating with more warmth, respect, and sincerity. Mogel also will highlight the best way to talk about your child when speaking to teachers, coaches, grandparents and others. In addition, she will provide a guide to the art of talking to children distracted by digital devices.
Continuing professional development units are available.
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Mogel is a clinical psychologist and the author of several New York Times bestsellers, including “The Blessings of a B Minus,” and “The Blessings of a Skinned Knee.”
GPS is generously sponsored by the Birth to Five Community Coalition, Cebrin Goodman Center, Community Consolidated School District 93 Birth to 5 Community Coalition, Cooperative Association for Special Education (CASE), College of DuPage, DuPage Medical Group, Emmy Gaffey Foundation, Glenbard Early Childhood Collaborative, Holiday Inn/Carol Stream and Prevention Leadership Team of the DuPage County Health Department. Thanks also go to allied partners, Congregation Etz Chaim and St. Mark's Church, for their support of this event.
For further information, visit glenbardgps.org or contact Gilda Ross, Glenbard District 87 student and community projects coordinator, at 630-942-7668 or gilda_ross@glenbard.org.
