Programs

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.

parenting safe children

Saturdays: April 6th and April 13th, 2024 from 9:00am - 11:30am via Zoom 

We are pleased to once again offer the critically important workshop Parenting Safe Children: Empowering Adults to Keep Children Safe from Sexual Abuse conducted by Feather Berkower of www.ParentingSafeChildren.com, a renowned expert in the field since 1985.

Parents will learn:
  • What makes children vulnerable to sexual abuse.
  • What body-safety rules you can teach your children to keep them safe.
  • How you can talk about your child’s body safety with teachers, coaches, nannies, family members, faith leaders and other parents.
“Parenting Safe Children is the single most worthwhile parenting class I’ve ever attended. In fact, going to this workshop was the best thing I’ve ever done for my children. And, Feather Berkower is amazing!”
             - Workshop Attendee

Registration coming soon. 

Kate Fagan on The Purpose of Youth Sports and How Parents Can Support Their Athletes

May 15, 2024 from 6:00-7:30pm in person

Today’s youth face a much different athletics experience than prior generations. From a different level of parental involvement to the ‘always-on’ pressure that social media creates, today’s athletes face the mounting pressures of our performance culture.

Kate Fagan has been speaking on the experience of the female athlete and the mental health concerns generated by today’s achievement focused youth sports environment and how coaches, parents, and caring adults can lean into the positive and be mindful of the harmful. Ms. Fagan is a sportscaster, an Emmy-award winning journalist, and the author of the No. 1 New York Times bestselling book, WHAT MADE MADDY RUN, which takes a closer look at the inside life of a successful young athlete whose life ended in suicide. 

Ms. Fagan also candidly documented her own journey of self discovery as an athlete and an individual in writing of her journey to accept herself through coming to terms with who she is when everyone around her was telling her she was wrong in her memoir, THE REAPPEARING ACT. Ms. Fagan is also a former CU Women’s Basketball teammate of BCD’s very own, Randie Wirt.

Ms. Fagan will share insights from her personal and professional experiences and bolster parents in their role as supporters of the real goal of youth sports. 

Click here to register.

Resource List from prior PES events

Whole Family Resilience presented by Dr. Deb Sorensen - February 2021

BCD Faculty share ideas on how to Bring Responsive Classroom Home.

Presentation by Brian Dino
, Media Program Coordinator of Common Sense Media on social media, cell phone use, and internet safety.

Video of Dr. Dan Siegel's presentation on the Adolescent Mind.

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Boulder Country Day School    4820 Nautilus Court North • Boulder, Colorado 80301 • Phone - 303.527.4931 • info@bouldercountryday.org
Boulder Country Day School, where academic distinction meets education with character. BCD is a top rated, accredited private school in Boulder, Colorado where every child has the opportunity to discover their own unique excellence. Distinguished by small class sizes, outstanding faculty, engaging academics and a focus on community, our preschool, elementary and IB middle school teachers strive to create a well-rounded educational environment that balances traditional subjects with the arts, world languages, athletics and knowledge based units.

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