Raising Happy and Confident Children in the Digital Era

Today’s fast-paced world, combined with unhealthy multimedia messages, confuses children about what is important for their personal health and family happiness. This panel of family experts will inform you on how to raise children who are happy, responsible for themselves, and respectful of your household’s values.

This panel will teach you how to nurture cooperative relationships with your children to handle the toughest issues of parenting, including drugs, sex, homework, and dating. Parents will learn ways to let children develop their own individual perspectives without losing authority. Participants will have the opportunity to ask their most difficult questions to the panel.

	Dr. Mark Schillinger, Moderator, is an authority in personal growth and male adolescence. His articles have been published in parenting magazines and he teaches family educational workshops. He is the founder of The Young Men’s Ultimate Weekend, a modern rites of passage initiation for young men.
	Brent Zeller, is the author of Evolutionary Education: Moving Beyond Our Competitive Compulsion, a book that creates a clear vision for our species’ survival and transcendence through a paradigm shift in education. For four decades, Brent has devoted his life to developing the ideal learning environment.
	Beth Hossfeld, MFT, is a licensed therapist and co-founder of Girls Circle, a nationally recognized model. Viewing the quality of girls’ relationships as key to their identity and healthy development, Beth works with teens, families, and organizations to develop their strengths and increase relationship well-being.
	Beth Halbert, PsyD, is a reputable clinical psychologist and visionary “Teenologist™” with a passion for empowering families. Her methods open doors for effective communication that honors differences, encourages unconditional acceptance, builds healthy boundaries, and creates more interactive and connected relationships. Visit Dr. Beth at www.drbeth.com.
	Richard Platt, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist and Certified Professional Coach, founded Teen Solutions to support families to raise effective and responsible young men. He has helped hundreds of teens discover their individuality and their time-honored role of serving and protecting our community.
	Warren Farrell, Ph.D., is author of the bestseller “Why Men Are the Way They Are,” plus “Women Can’t Hear What Men Don’t Say” on couples’ communication, as well as other books translated into 15 languages in 50 countries. He has been chosen by the “Financial Times” as one of the world’s top 100 “thought leaders” and has appeared repeatedly on Oprah and Barbara, and by Larry King and Peter Jennings. He has been featured repeatedly on 20/20 and in The New York Times, in People and on Real People, in men’s journals and The Wall Street Journal, and on the Today Show, the Tomorrow Show, and even To Tell The Truth. and more than 1,000 TV and radio shows. See www.warrenfarrell.com. Dr. Warren Farrell began his research on gender issues in the ‘60s. His first book, The Liberated Man, was published in 1974. It was from the women’s perspective and the feminist perspective. By the ‘80s, he began noticing that men were feeling misrepresented, and his award-winning national best-seller, Why Men Are The Way They Are, was written to answer women’s questions about men in a way that rings true for men. The New York Post calls it “the most important book ever written about love, sex, and intimacy.”