Parent Education Series
The BCD Parent Education Series offers free, public presentations designed to help parents navigate their roles and responsibilities in the face of an increasingly complex world.
Speakers and topics are selected based on current relevance to children and parents. Past topics include: Media and Internet Safety, Understanding the Gifted & Talented personality, Healthy Eating Habits, and Anti-Bullying.
Most events are open to the public and all are free or require a minimal fee. Please review the schedule below and come join us.
2025-26 Event Schedule
December 2, 8:00am-9:15am
Support your Pre-teen in Thriving Through the Middle Years
This event is open to the public.
Parental support plays an important part in helping preteens and teens succeed in middle school. But as students grow more independent during these years, it can be hard for parents to know which situations call for involvement and which call for a more behind-the-scenes approach.
Join us as Deb Rubin, LCSW helps us to understand the pre-teen/teen brain and offer us guidance on how to best support our children of this age as they confront new challenges from the changing academic demands to today’s more nuanced social pressures. Deb will help us to decipher normal teen behavior from problematic and offer tips on supporting your child to not only survive, but to thrive through this time.
December 3, 2025 - 8:30am - 9:45am
The Nine-Year Change with Deb Rubin and BCD Elementary Teachers
For BCD families only.
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Deb Rubin, will be joining us to present the ‘Nine Year Old Change.’ This parenting session will cover the developmental and psychological changes specific to the 9 year change. One of the biggest themes is that children revisit the push pull dynamic (similar to the 2 year change), but at 9 it is a lot more complicated. A lot is happening in their little brains. Some of the changes are very subtle and when parents can be prepared and knowledgeable about what is happening, it can help parents not take things so personally; it can be very comforting for parents to know they are not alone. Ms. Rubin will seek to clarify the normalcy of some of the behaviors children display and give some tips on how to make this phase more compassionate for all involved.
While this event is geared towards dynamics that occur around age 9, all BCD elementary parents are invited to attend.
Note: This is a late start morning.