What We Do

Equipping families with ideas, insight, and community to help them thrive.

This year we're partnering with The Parent Venture non-profit organization to showcase their line-up of well-known authors, speakers and parenting experts focusing on topics of highest interest to MI families.

What does that mean for you? These events will be accessible in a few ways:

  • Live webinar
  • Recorded programs (over 25 programs this year) and a large library of past programs
  • Spotlighted Parent Edge programming
  • In-Person, follow up group conversations

Featured Themes for 2023-24:

  1. Achievement Pressure
  2. Technology and Digital Lives
  3. Social and Emotional Skill Building

Mercer Island Parent Edge is a non-profit organization which is part of the Mercer Island PTA Council. We coordinate events and programs for parents, students, educators and our community. Our goal is to encourage dialogue and share best practices.

2023-24 Programs and Events

 

Join Us: Parent Circle "Technology and Digital Lives"

March 19th, 12PM
Location: MI Library

Continue the conversation about "Technology and Digital Lives" and join us for an informal, ongoing community discussion and how to support parents create a healthy family culture around tech and digital use.

 

Watch the webinar Growing Up in Public with Devorah Heitner here.
 
Webinar and recording presented by our program partner, The Parent Venture.

*Haven't watched the webinar yet? Come anyway! There is no a requirement to join discussion, just a willingness to learn.



Who is Devorah Heitner?

Dr. Devorah Heitner is the author of Growing Up in Public: Coming of Age in a Digital World and Screenwise: Helping Kids Thrive (and Survive) in Their Digital World. Her work has appeared in the New York TimesThe Washington PostThe Wall Street Journal, and CNN Opinion. She has a Ph.D. in Media/Technology & Society from Northwestern University and has taught at DePaul and Northwestern. She is delighted to be raising her own teenager and she lives with her family in Chicagoland. You can follow her on Substack and on Instagram @devorahheitnerphd.



*Registration is requested by not required. 

 

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