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Teen conference notes - Jennifer Ballen 5/2/00
Breakout 1- Family
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WASHINGTON
Breakout 1:
Janice LaChance: intro herself -
- as pt. of direct. of OPM important to give
fams Feex work schedules
- give kids BILL opp to reach full potential
- gout is largest employer- - can serve
as role model to help parenting be easier
- -launched OPM office of wk llife progs.
-take agencies 2000 calls/month fm. people in
- 24 hrs. unpaid leave for school
Functions
- feex schedules, wk fm. home
- drafting new reqs on taking 12 wks
Sick leave to care for sick fam. member
- supportive of volunteer wk. - -encourage
comm. involvemt.
- employs. more likely to stay in jobs-
policies improve morale, compassion
workplace, more productive environmt.
- -by being successful model employer, can
hopefully influence other businesses
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- has to leave early - Ann will take over
when she leaves
intro speakers:
Laworence Steinberg: Temple adslescents U. expert on
Canfield: Fathering initiative
Botts: Bell Atlantic - perspect on ingling
work + family
Mabnes: "movie stars" - highlight leave
policies
Swisher: First Day Foundation
Dir. LaChance
Ann O'leary: intro Elben Coalinsky -running
campaign
introd this an
Dr. Steinberg: write for various pubs, father of
15 yr. old
- not easy, but if you go into it wl knowldge
+ understing, can be rewarding
+ exhilarating time
- we do know a number of things for
sure about this relationship
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- how to get into parents
3 principles:
1) despite sterestypes of kids moving away,
research shows kids needing involvemt
of parents - parents kids that M have
involved parents are better off
on lots of indicators:
2) love is not enough- kids need
firm rules + expectations in place
- even though then are mature,
to an extent
adults still need to manage more lives
3) kids need parents to talk to them,
listen - not lecture, overcentral,
-need advice, guidance
-this takes time, work
- for one of most important things
understand this
campaign - get parents to
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- have looked at this across types of
Families and homes - can be pretty
confident in saying if parents can
be more involved, communicative,
can have POS. results in kids'
mental health
- believe we need public health
campaign ained at parents - can
have an effect - look @ "Back to
Sleep" campaign
- what are impediments@gething
we have to parents
Dir. la Chance: helpful to see it reduced to
simple action items
Dr. proceedings Canfield: very encouraged w/ today's
representing Am's fathers - Lidden resource
- lots of studies showing impact of
father involvement
- in 1994, Led way@Family Revnion conference
1995, memorandum
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-since then, many states have started
initiatives
- commend Acluin. on what they ive been
able to do
- challenge is to frame this in a reciprocal
way - involvemt dips in adolescence,
but involvemt can demonstrate tangible
rewards as help tens through rites
of passage
- essay contest yearly - 150.000 this yr.
"I don't know what is to have father.
wish I did - feel empty inside"
"Admire my dad - not rich, attlete."
Coxamples of essays)
- most powerful motivator on
fathers is voices of children
reaching
Dir. LaChance: can see clearly how
import. dads are
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Mr.Botts: Corp. Amer. can help
-@3ell Atlantic, involved in many ways
-all they do is driver by values,
code of conduct, vision
-values are key to many issues facing
kids - eucov rage. amployees to have
balance in work/home life
-integrity
- respect
excellence
-customer commitment
- external affairs does many things
- -motivational speaker in D.C. pub.
schools re. violence - imed. way
to help address issue
- corporate Foundation- - ed tech is
primary focus
- work-life + families org. -work w/
major union - program sent to
140,000 employees on accessing
information of all kinds on
parenting, tough issues, etc.
-also circulate through
Company organs 6 (paper, etc.)
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- personal efforts in Montq. Cty. schools
+
putting ethics programs in schools
- Seneca Valley HS - ethics wk.-gren
Speakers, materials, etc.
-try to be there for parents, kids,
Speakers
- public service
great experience
for kids
-thought Bell Atlantic wasn't doing
much, but 88% % of companies don't
Is anything
- chairman has annual award for comm.
service - he won last year - big deal
- -company doing lots of things - has
sample mats. for what they're doing
for employees
- did one initiative that was Co ntroversial
(AIDS, sextrans diseases) - did it
after hours for parents + kids
Dir. LaCh. what about impact on product?
- - there's a balance
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Druid Hill,
Mr. Malone: two hats - exce. dir.
YMCA
- father of 4
Battimok
- somary kids come through Y each
day - surregate Father
- honesty
-respect
4 values of Y
- caring
responsibity
-Fridays - teen day - have Fizza, computer,
Swim, gym classes
-deal wl teens on variety of issues
'expose kids to mentors
/ working w/ middle school kids
'notjust gym - tutoring, etc.
' pulling in resources for teens
- as parents, panicking
- -lack of time
- want to simplify lives
- aggrements - not enough time to relax
- -teens isolating selves in rooms
- need to have some time to come
together as a -Family, esp. w/ teenagers
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-don't need to besuperparents - so many
things pulling
- has been great to be here
Mrs. Malone: schoolteacher Kinder. - as teacher,
need to spend time w/ kids - she spends
more time w/ kids them parents do
- age where they need lots of love + attention
- _at that age, parents make time
- as become teenagers, become forgotten
age - what do Ids wl teenagers?
- 13- is hardest age - lost
- as mother w/ such an age gap- realized
Litte ones don't need So much - teens
have real issues + need more time
- need even more help. + input
- want to find more ways to balance
home + work
- mentoring progs, wl companies for
teens can help
- when do we begin to realize we
need to help save this lost age?
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(Dir. LaChance leave)
Ms. Swisher: First Day
of School Holiday
Hemmings Motor News started
-parents get day off frn. work to go to
school wl kids
- schools have seen luge increases in
PTA involvement
Hemmings MN - pub for old car entensiasts
Terry Erick - publisher - gave everyone
2 paid days off for academic
participation
- people who were intimidated by
School weren't using days of
-Terry joined Employers for learning
@ a us Dept. of Ed, America Goes Back
to School initiative - got involved
nationally
- 1997 started initiative in Bennington, VT
- 1998 went to 65 schools in VT
- 1999 200 schools 5 states
- employers give employees day off-
School does something for parents
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- has increased to involve more fathers,
and up grade levels
- mid + high schools have set up tracks
for parents separate from kids
re. curriculum, etc.
Ann O'leary:
- what do we do re. public education,
policies re. teenagers?
-needs to be research-based-have
that information
- how dowe make Sure we're listening
to teens, hearing their voices
1 as was reaching out, talked to
Ellen Galinsky re. businesses
-most who heard from were freused
on parents of you kids-not
much for parents of teens
- have real needs as kids growup
- Malones highlighted needs - there
aren't many afterschool activities,
esp. for early teens (11-13) 13)
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-heard that are many institutions need to
be reached" out to
DebSilcox- YMCA central MD - w/a Sons
Ruth Wooden- parent of Kyr. old
Nat'/ Parenting Assoc.
Lisa - - working Mother mag.
Janet Chen-Parenting Mag. - -foundation
- what should build up
for having
to that
a teenager
Shirley Igo- Nat'l PTA - 6.5 mill members
- have e Parent-teach-stad.org. Parent - teach -stud.org.
to offer leadership opps to students
BillDoherty-fac. @ U.of Minn. - written
about family rituals, family time
Family Life First orgs.
Drew Silcox - Freshmn.
Kristen Hurdle- - YMCA nat'l office inDC
-worked on poll released this am
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Tamika Malone - 9th grade
Nakia Malone - 11th grade
Christive - - reporter mag.
Ann: what can we do
Ruth Wooden: talk about being parent of
teen as a jail sentence - do n't have a
context that teens are much more than
trouble. - teens can be a lot of fun,
can do all sents of things
- -until we reframe that concept, pub. ed.
campaign will make it sound Like a jail
Sent. 1 need to change lense
Dr. Steinburg - pub. ed. camp. should be about
educating parents what adolesc. is
all about - if talk about teens as
nothing but trouble, then teens not in
trouble are seen as fine - needs to be
about what other needs of teens are
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Wooden:
Lisa: isn't just born in media- - studies
fivel that - alot of this staff has been
put into context
Ann: reflection on what WH has been doing
-fowsing just on violence post Littleton
-need to expand to youth service, etc.
Amy: reframe-these are years you
are laying groundwork for lifetime
of friendship wl adult children
- need friendships to see as building adult
Canfield: humility+ humor goes hand in hand
- adults need to mature first in this process
- Fathers feel like they are bsing their
teens, influences mainly through media + peer
- how to build positive media relationships
Janet: can't you expand that to mothers?
Canfield: yes, but fathers are task oriented
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- need to breath simplicity
Doherty - parental peer pressure - excellence
standard - my kid will do well
- we encourage them to excel, but
we are surrendering children to a
frenetic pace
- -kids want time to hang out
- hyperparenting - -parenting m.sidelines
- how busy is your family
Cliristine - defense of media - trying to
context brain research more -trying to
really bridge goop
- how to bridge emotional gap w/ kids,
but also what about business guilt
there -as good employee, I need to be
Botts - try to encourage employees to see that
it's important to balance life - not
all about work
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Janet: campaign shouldn + be simplified
to past "spend time w/ teenager"
but I think that alot of that needs to
be in there - it's the doing nothing
that's so important - needs to be
can be
communicated - parenting easy
Dr. Steinberg: part of problem is work expanding
into evenings + whends
-
what
how can parents tell employers
no
Doherty: coach practice on Thanks. is demand
too
Ellen Cealinsky - if going to try and change
public's opinion, are clear about some
things, not others
- know it takes a lot of time - 7-10 yrs.
- need to work on different levels
-apinion + chang. behavior are different
- natil + local media, comm. orgs:, etc.
- need to see issue more clearly
- doing study w/ Ruth Wooden on work
impressions
-
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least clear
- understand issues of how to say no
to employers - show you are committed
to job, want to balance
- -but how do you make a business case
on need to be involved?
- voices of children
- people are ready to move away
from diclestomous way of
looking at issue
- need to be unexpected messengers
- takes time -is important, will need
help
- astaing kids what they think about
these issues
- have been able to change perception
of 0-3 age range importance, but
what is business case to public?
- have to show that costs of change
are worth the change
Amy - if parents are more involved, kids do
better in school, better in school= = better
economy - not short term
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Ellen -for a parent - -reed to make case
Cliristive:
Doherty: insecurity on being a parent
went to wife @ PTA netg- how do you say
no to a teenager
- never any parent
Shirley Igo: teams spend most of time in
schools - need to work w/ schools + bus.
to
improve
break down barriers
Ruth: parents of teens need to feel more
confident in going to employers to say
need more time - should be more
explicit. this teenager thing is harder
Ann - - can all shape this campaign
Coalition Lots of followup - Ellen spearheading
- will figure this out in next
2 a wks - don't want to point fingers
parents - all sorts of factors here
- as you leave, think on this + will
be able to give input
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