Please mark your calendars Monday, December 8th, 7pm in Judd 126 for “Teaching Kindness: The Smart Love Approach”, with remarks and discussion by Dr. Martha Heineman Pieper, Ph. D. This presentation is for parents and teachers who are wondering how best to develop kindness in young children.

Dr. Pieper will present the Smart Love approach to teaching kindness.  Smart Love is a new and effective way to help children grow into caring adults. Its parenting and teaching strategies are based on an accurate understanding of children’s interpersonal capabilities at different ages. Dr. Pieper will also discuss how to help the overly aggressive child and the overly victimized child. A question and answer session will follow Dr. Pieper’s remarks. This is a presentation of Smart Love Family Services:  www.smartlovefamily.org.

Child care and homework monitoring by Lab After School staff will be available beginning at 6:45 PM in Judd 207 during this December 8th event for Lower and Middle School aged children only*. There will be separate rooms available to students depending on their age:  1) board games & art/reading, 2) recreation, and 3) homework.

Please register in advance for childcare to ensure we have enough coverage.  To register or if you have questions, please e-mail dec8childcare@gmail.com or, call Michelle Boraz at  or (773) 550-2806 at least 24 hours before the scheduled event.  Please provide the names and ages of the children, as well the activity you would like for them to do. This service has been arranged by the Parents’ Association for your convenience.

*Need a babysitter? You can pick up a list in the Lower School Office of current and former U-High students who are available to babysit, or you can email the Parents Association at parents@ucls.uchicago.edu to request a copy.

Dr. Pieper’s Bio:

Dr. Martha Heineman Pieper, Ph.D.

Dr. Martha Heineman Pieper, Ph.D. along with her husband, William J. Pieper, M.D. are two highly respected parenting and child psychology experts.  They are the authors of numerous articles and books, including Intrapsychic Humanism: An Introduction to a Comprehensive Psychology and Philosophy of Mind (Falcon II Press, 1990); The Smart Love Parent: The Compassionate Alternative to Discipline (Innova Publishing, 2004), and Addicted to Unhappiness: Free Yourself from Moods and Behaviors that Undermine Relationships, Work, and the Life You Want (McGraw-Hill, 2002, 2004). The Piepers’ most important discovery is that everyone is born with a desire to be happy (with the capacity to achieve a stable, pleasurable inner well-being) and that inner unhappiness is a learned response that can be unlearned rather than an inborn characteristic.  For over thirty years, the Piepers have conducted clinical research and been in private practice treating children, adolescents, and adults, counseling parents, and supervising other mental health professionals. Martha Heineman Pieper graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Magna Cum Laude from Radcliffe College, and received her Ph.D. in clinical social work from the University of Chicago. She has served on the editorial boards of professional journals such as Illinois Child Welfare, Social Work and Smith College Studies in Social Work and is on the Board of Directors of Smart Love Family Services. Dr. Pieper is a Lab School alum herself and several of her children attended Lab School including a daughter who is currently in the 12th grade.

Posted on November 17th, 2008 by mboraz
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