by kbeck-pf | Jan 9, 2025 | Voices of Parents Forum Newsletter
Acquiring the skills Parents Forum offers for managing interpersonal conflicts can be life-changing, especially in early adulthood. Sometimes, a friendship or a challenging work situation can be transformed by one person finding the right words to deliver a message to...
by kbeck-pf | Oct 29, 2024 | Voices of Parents Forum Newsletter
Parents Forum invites YOU to our online workshop on developing emotional awareness which will be presented twice in November: Saturday, November 2, from 10 to 11:30 am Eastern (US) and Saturday, November 16, at the same time. To sign up send an email to...
by kbeck-pf | Apr 22, 2024 | Voices of Parents Forum Newsletter
Earlier this year my daughter, Fumani Sithole, was given an assignment to come up with a speech to deliver at her school. I saw this as opportunity to teach my daughter to take care of our planet. Knowing that her favorite water animal is a dolphin, my daughter and I...
by kbeck-pf | Feb 14, 2024 | Voices of Parents Forum Newsletter
In my current work as participant coordinator for a health research project in Boston, I met Parents Forum founder Eve Sullivan – one of our participants – when she called in to the project. Eve and I spoke enthusiastically about experiences we have each had serving...
by kbeck-pf | Aug 1, 2023 | Voices of Parents Forum Newsletter
Happy Respect for Parents Day! Parents Forum certainly plays an important part in promoting this worthy social value. I took this snapshot on Saturday at an outstanding community garden called Cloudesley which I visited for a meeting of a small charity I support. It...
by kbeck-pf | Jun 1, 2023 | Voices of Parents Forum Newsletter
When I joined Parents Forum three years ago to create this newsletter — in the very early days of the pandemic — I was not expecting to make life-long friends through only an online connection. My initial volunteering became a learning process that...
