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Tackling Your Tweens Safety- Together!

"Tackling Your Tweens Safety.. Together!"


A Workshop for parents and their Tween 4th/5th/6th/7th graders


7PM - 8:15 PM

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Your tween is growing and wanting more independence. Although panic inducing to parents, it is a normal part of growing up. This workshop will help you and your tween create a safety plan that you can both live with.


PARENTS will gain tips and tools to help you explore your tweens readiness for more independence.

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TWEEN'S will gain solid safety steps that they will need to help navigate through this very exciting chapter of their lives.


Tweens will brainstorm:



  • Home alone readiness and safety

  • Ideas on how to get out of risky peer situations

  • Cellphones

  • Identifying the top things that are freaking your parents out and how you can help calm them down


 


Building a safety plan together will help open up communication and will reduce their risk of sexual abuse, bullying and abduction. 


(Ticket Price includes registration for 1 adult + 1 Tween)


Workshop date 12/05/2012 -  PREREGISTRATION REQUIRED!


Parents MUST attend with their Tween!


Child must be 9 years old to attend

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