A workshop for parents to help foster resilience and decrease anxiety in children.
Targeted to parents of children age birth-10, this workshop is designed to explore research around play and screen based childhoods and the impact both have on children. Parenting is hard, especially in the digital age. This workshop will provide strategies to help parents navigate fostering independence,encouraging free play and helping kids to have a healthy relationship with technology.
We will provide childcare in the Youth Room (the program will be held across the hall in the Periodicals Room). If you plan to bring your kids, please let us know more in the Google form linked above. Refreshments will be served.
Andrea Howell, M.Ed., is an experienced educator who has specialized in working with children and families for over 30 years. She brings together her knowledge and expertise in the areas of child development, positive parenting and social-emotional development to support parents in creating a sense of calm, confidence and connection within themselves and their families. A resident of Mount Desert Island, Maine for the last 21 years, Andrea specializes in positive behavior supports, conflict resolution, and encouraging developmentally appropriate independence. Her business website can be found at www.andreawilsonhowell.com.
Tara McKernan, M.Ed, LCPC is a local therapist who runs a private practice at The Counseling Collaborative. Prior to her work as a counselor, Tara worked for 24 years as a school counselor and special education teacher. Currently, she is also teaching a class on child development at The College of the Atlantic. Her clinical work has a strong focus on anxiety, ADHD, depression and trauma. With a deep background in social-emotional learning, Tara also works closely with children and families to help strengthen those skills. Tara and her family live and work on MDI and have loved calling it home for the past 25 years. Additional information on Tara can be found at: www.taramckernancounseling.com