I'm still wondering about...

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 Strategies for encouraging independence and overcoming/allowing failures

 How can we change this over-parenting culture; how to be the outlier parent

 How do we stop parenting from a place of fear

 As technology progresses, how do you provide periods of “down time” or quiet? i.e. fill the boredom with imagination & reactive pursuits

 Short-term fun vs. long-term solution

 How to find the balance of support and overdoing as they get older

 How do I reclaim my life for myself (as an example for my kids)

 How can school and parents work together

 How do we instill the lines of open communication through college and beyond

 How can we communicate to the district our concerns about how the FM school district’s policies support over-parenting

 How can we communicate these ideas to parents not present

 What can we do to start teaching coping skills earlier (as parents? In school?)

 How do we turn things around in today’s society/culture

 How do we lower student and parent stress

 How to get more parent participation

 More need to learn about this (empowerment)

 Why kids don’t ride the bus

 How to encourage more independence

 Natural consequences

 Continue conversation next year… future

 How do we mitigate the “arms race” (tutor, private sports coaching, etc.)

 Where is the line of let them be sad and work through it and where is the line of intervening in serious/dangerous behavior or depression

 My ability to stick to it

 Societal norms and how it influences parenting

 School expectations (e.g. technology)

 Self-driven kids/parents role

 How to manage warring siblings

 Where will we be in 10/20 years without change

 the Adderall problem

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