Warmhearted-Coolheaded Communication:
Turning Conflict into Kindness

Parenting Right in the Middle is a series of events for parents of tweens (kids in grade 5 through 8). By providing education, tools and gathering space, this project will help parents move beyond crisis mode and into a more positive and intentional approach to parenting. This project supports a positive, practice-based approach to parenting that will:

• Develop essential internal strengths in parents and kids
• Help parents learn to limit, love, listen and laugh

This event is a “learning lab” that will give parents tools for intentional parenting, a model that combines warmth, support, stability and emotional responsiveness (“warmhearted”) with limit setting and parents’ own self-regulation (“coolheaded”).

Parents will leave the class with Tools for Intentional Parenting (TIPs) that help them:

• Choose responsiveness and cool reactiveness
• Engage the "dos" of positive communications and avoid negativity, nagging, lecturing, etc.
• Discern when & how to stand firm and when & how to stand back
• Plan for positive outcomes
• Up joy and connection

Facilitated by Karolynn Flynn and Kathie McCarthy

This project is presented by three local organizations: the Bainbridge Island School District, Hyla Middle School, and Raising Resilience, and is funded by a grant from the Bainbridge Community Foundation.

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