{"id":1587,"date":"2013-01-08T12:02:25","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T17:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/?p=1587"},"modified":"2013-01-08T12:02:25","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T17:02:25","slug":"starting-the-new-year-with-confidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/starting-the-new-year-with-confidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting the New Year With Confidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a title=\"Catherine Sanderson at Williston 2012 by WillistonNorthampton, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willistonnorthampton\/sets\/72157632429834357\/with\/8346325894\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8491\/8346325386_6d3ee8c63d.jpg\" alt=\"Catherine Sanderson at Williston 2012\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Last Wednesday, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.williston.com\/parentsassociation\">Parent\u2019s Association<\/a> held our first meeting of 2013, and hosted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amherst.edu\/people\/facstaff\/casanderson\">Catherine Sanderson<\/a>, Associate Professor of Psychology at Amherst College, who presented a talk called \u201cFive Strategies for Parenting a More Confident Teenager: What the Most Current Research Shows.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We think we speak for everyone who was in the room when we say this was completely fascinating. Professor Sanderson is a gifted speaker, despite a post-cold touch of laryngitis, and captivated a crowd of concerned parents and faculty\/staff. \u00a0We will get personal for a moment, and put it right out there that being a parent of a preteen or adolescent involves tremendous effort\u2013with no reciprocal encouragement about 90 per cent of the time. Hearing Professor Sanderson identify our anxiety provoking and confusing \u00a0parenting moments as the norm was very comforting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/parentsassociation\/2013\/01\/08\/starting-the-new-year-with-confidence\/#more-163\">Continue reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Wednesday, the Parent\u2019s Association held our first meeting of 2013, and hosted Catherine Sanderson, Associate Professor of Psychology at Amherst College, who presented a talk called \u201cFive Strategies for Parenting a More Confident Teenager: What the Most Current Research Shows.\u201d We think we speak for everyone who was in the room when we say &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/starting-the-new-year-with-confidence\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Starting the New Year With Confidence<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[73,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parents-association","category-williston-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1588,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions\/1588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}