Parenting Series: “Gender Diversity in Kids & Teens”

Parenting Series 2024-25: “What Parents Should Know about Gender Diversity in Kids and Teens” There has been increasing awareness and recognition of transgender and gender diverse identities in children, adolescents, and adults.  This talk will provide parents and caregivers with information about diverse gender identities and best practices for supporting gender expansive youth.  It will dispel misconceptions...

Parenting Series 2024-2025: “The Ins and Outs of Paternity Leave”

The Parenting Series is an Office for Women’s Careers initiative focused on well-being and work-life balance for MGH faculty and trainee parents. This panel will present the logistics as well as the lived experience of taking paternity leave, a benefit that has received less attention than maternity leave but that is also of crucial value...

Beth Frates

Parenting Series 2024-2025: “Taking a COACH Approach to Parenting”

The Parenting Series is an Office for Women’s Careers initiative focused on well-being and work-life balance for MGH faculty and trainee parents. This talk will provide you with some basic coaching skills that you can use when parenting. Dr. Frates has been coaching since 2008 and has two grown children 23 and 25. With her...

Parental Wellness Program Summer Series

Introducing the Faculty Parental Wellness Program’s Summer Series! Parents with kids of all ages – join us for 3 talks this summer with MGB pediatricians who will give some practical tips, resources, and answer audience questions. If you have any questions ahead of time, please add them when you register using the links below: Tuesday,...

Parenting Series: “The Phenomenon of College Student Isolation & Disengagement”

Parenting Series 2023-2024: “The Phenomenon of College Student Isolation and Disengagement: Insights and Advice from Experts” The Parenting Series is an Office for Women’s Careers initiative focused on well-being and work-life balance for MGH faculty and trainee parents. Our panelists, two of whom work in college settings, provided an inside view of the current atmosphere...

Parenting Series 2023-2024: “The Crucial C’s & Family Meetings”

The Parenting Series is an Office for Women’s Careers initiative focused on well-being and work-life balance for MGH faculty and trainee parents. Professional Parent Educator Vicki Hoefle introduced concepts and strategies for building and maintaining a cooperative, engaging, and respectful environment for both adults and children, especially when challenging behaviors arise. She introduced the helpful...

Managing (and Preventing) Anxiety & Depression in Our Children

Parenting Series 2023-2024: “Managing (and Preventing) Anxiety and Depression in Our Children: Teaching Skills to Step into the Future” The Parenting Series is an Office for Women’s Careers initiative focused on well-being and work-life balance for MGH faculty and trainee parents. Anxiety feels and looks powerful and messy, but it’s not complicated once you understand...

Parenting Series 2023-2024: “Encouraging Independence in Kids”

The Parenting Series is an Office for Women’s Careers initiative focused on well-being and work-life balance for MGH faculty and trainee parents. This talk explored questions about how parents can foster independence in their children. Questions addressed included when and how children should be encouraged to take on certain responsibilities, as well as specific parenting...

Parenting Series 2023-2024: “Looking Ahead to College”

The Parenting Series is an Office for Women’s Careers initiative focused on well-being and work-life balance for MGH faculty and trainee parents. Each session includes a panel of people with lived experience sharing their thoughts as well as an expert in the field to stimulate discussion and share information on a topic relevant to managing...

Chasing Childhood

Parenting Series 2022-2023: “Chasing Childhood Documentary Screening & Discussion”

The Parenting Series is an Office for Women’s Careers initiative focused on the well-being and work-life balance for MGH faculty and trainee parents. Each session includes people with lived experience sharing their thoughts as well as an expert in the field to stimulate discussion and share information on a topic relevant to managing parenthood. This...

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