The Artist’s Way for Parents + Age of Opportunity

Julia Cameron, author of The Artist’s Way for Parents.

Topic: Raising creative children.

Issues: Awaken your children’s sense of wonder–and reawaken your own in the process; help your children turn their passions into art; encouraging self-expression; replenishing your own creative stores while nurturing those of your children; cultivate a lifelong passion for creativity and the creative process.

Laurence Steinberg, author of Age of Opportunity.

Topic: Lessons from the new science of adolescence.

Issues: Why adolescence lasts three times longer than it did back in the 1950s; the adolescent brain is still developing–and growing; how adolescents think; protecting adolescents from themselves; the importance of self-regulation; how can parents make a difference; are adolescents legally responsible for their behavior?