- DATE: 09 January 2021
- TIME: 10:00 - 12:00
- LOCATION: Online
‘Parenting the demanding generation’ by Dr Aric Sigman
We are delighted to welcome you to our first virtual Positive Parenting workshop.
This talk addresses the importance of authority and boundaries in child development and standing up to our demanding children based on Dr Sigman’s book The Spoilt Generation. Contrary to popular understanding, ‘authoritative’ parenting leads to better-adjusted, more competent children at different developmental periods including preschool, school age and adolescence. This talk explains why and how this has implications for a wide range of issues including alcohol, drugs, underage pregnancy and mental health. Parenting includes not only parents, but ‘extended parents’ – the other figures of authority in a child’s life, including teachers and emphasises the importance of a more joined-up approach to dealing with children today.
Please note: This is an online event. All those who have registered for this workshop will be sent a Zoom link a few days before the event.
Dr Aric Sigman
Dr Sigman, from the US, lectures on PSHE health education to children, parents and staff at schools as well as at medical schools.His areas of expertise include: Screen time/dependence, Alcohol, ‘Soft’ drugs & vaping, Preventing mental health problems in children and Body image.
He is a member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on a Fit and Healthy Childhood and co-author of two of its latest reports on mental health in childhood. He is also the author of five books on PSHE-related topics, including The Spoilt Generation and Getting Physical, which won The Times Educational Supplement’s Information Book Award.
Dr Sigman has twice been invited to address the European Parliament Working Group on the Quality of Childhood in the EU in Brussels which published his reports on reducing alcohol misuse among children and adolescents, and on the impact of electronic media and screen dependency. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, and a Chartered Scientist awarded by the Science Council.