Description
Rosalind Wiseman is the co-founder of the Empower Program, a nonprofit organization that empowers youth to stop violence and reaches more than 10,000 youth and educators each year since its inception. This year's conference will be based on her most recent New York Times bestseller, Queen Bee Moms and Kingpin Dads: Dealing with the Parents, Teachers, Coaches and Counselors Who Can Make — Or Break — Your Child’s
Future. In it, Wiseman explores what happens to queen bees and wannabes when they grow up. She discusses how parents become involved in their children's conflicts for better or worse, and how even
the most well-adjusted moms and dads can experience peer pressure and conflicts with other adults such as teachers, coaches, and even other parents, that make them act like they’re back in seventh grade.
Wiseman decided to tackle her new subject after so many parents confided that dominating parents and cliques control schools at the adult level, too. Being a parent, Rosalind says, “taps into our deepest insecurities, makes us question our every ability and causes us to measure ourselves against everyone around us. In other words, it makes us feel like seventh-graders all over again.”
In her trademark style — engaging, funny, and unfailingly honest — Rosalind Wiseman gives us the tools to handle
difficult situations involving adolescents, teachers, and
our parental peers with grace. Her day-long workshop provides concrete, common sense strategies for any
educator, professional, or parent who works or lives
with children and teens, so that all participants can
walk away from the presentation with positive ways
to impact their community.
 PRESENTER
Rosalind has been profiled in the New York Times, People, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, USA Today, Oprah, Nightline, The Today Show, CNN, Good Morning America, and National Public Radio affiliates throughout the country and has recently become a columnist for Family Circle magazine. |
