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:
- Achievement Pressure
- Technology and Digital Lives
- 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"
Location: MI Library
Watch the webinar Growing Up in Public with Devorah Heitner here.
*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 Times, The Washington Post, The 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.