Tonight!

Jan 06, 2009

Parenting Workshop
by Steph DeRosa

Aside from maintaining the porta-potties during a summer weekend festival in the Everglades of Florida, parenting is by far the most tiring and thankless job known to man. Or woman. Or grandparent.

Unfortunately, not all parents can be as perfectly flawless in the upbringing of their children as I am. That’s why the first Tuesday of every month Olympia’s Hands On Children’s Museum hosts a class appropriately named, “Parenting Approaches that Work!” This Tuesday, Jan. 6, from 6-8:30 pm, HOCM brings in Howard Winkler (no relation to Henry Winkler, sorry) and Shelly Willis from Family Education and Support Services to help parents decipher all the parenting advice being given out in the world these days. Winkler and Willis plan to provide participants with research-based information and end all parenting myths.

Pre-registration is required and easily done by simply calling the Hands On Children’s Museum or visiting their Web site. Don’t worry about finding a sitter, either. Bring the kids and let them play while you better yourself as a parent. Somebody’s got to keep your kids off the pole and out of the clink in their adulthood. Let it be you.

[Hands On Children’s Museum, 6-8:30 p.m., $6.95-$7.95, 106 11th Ave. S.W., OIlympia, 360.956.0818]