Parents Forum

Parents Forum Our mission is to foster honest, respectful, and caring communications in families.... We look forward to hearing from you!

Parents Forum is a non-profit, community-based organization that provides workshops focusing on emotional awareness. We help individuals and agencies develop strong support networks and helpful resources for parents and other caregivers. Parents Forum was founded on the principles that raising children connects all families, regardless of background or social status, and that all families can be s

trengthened by improving communication and increasing emotional awareness. Parents Forum accomplishes these goals by:
= Modeling and teaching effective communication skills to parents through workshops and the program handbook Where the Heart Listens
= Partnering with community organizations to provide the Parents Forum curriculum to its constituents
= Offering opportunities for individuals to get advice, support and information through parent support groups. Our mission is to foster honest, respectful and caring communications in families. Parents Forum has developed creative, practical solutions to the challenges of contemporary parenting: Parents Forum can be a valuable resource for you and can help you make a positive difference in the lives of others in your community.

11/12/2025

Another event coming up!

Saturday, November 22, 2025, online, 10 am Eastern:
“How To Tell Somebody Something They’d Rather Not Hear”, a free Parents Forum mini-workshop, just 30 minutes!
Sign-up required: [email protected], please put WORKSHOP SIGNUP in the subject line of your message to receive the link to attend.

11/12/2025

Hi Y’all
An important and exciting-event! Thursday, November 20, at 5:30 and at 6:00 pm at the KiOSK in Harvard Square, Cambridge, in person, learn “How To Tell Somebody Something They’d Rather Not Hear”, at a free Parents Forum mini-workshop, just 30 minutes!

SIGN-UP requested but not required, by email: [email protected] or phone: 617-864-3802.

It’s Good Neighbor Day this coming Tuesday October 1st. . . and Parents Forum invites you to the Cambridge Public Librar...
09/29/2024

It’s Good Neighbor Day this coming Tuesday October 1st. . . and Parents Forum invites you to the Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway, just a couple of blocks from Harvard Square: https://bit.ly/3XI5mmo. Parking is available under the library. If your schedule allows, please come! It is a drop in event, chatting and community building affair, no formal program.

Good Neighbor Day aims to strengthen community bonds by bringing together people of all ages to share experiences, learn from each other, and build connections. Join us and your neighbors for a collaborative art project, intergenerational conversations for older children and adults, and story time f...

Parents Forum launches Love and Luck Fundraising Every contribution, big or small, makes a difference. Together, we can ...
03/09/2024

Parents Forum launches Love and Luck Fundraising

Every contribution, big or small, makes a difference. Together, we can create a stronger, more vibrant community where parents and children can find the support and encouragement they need.

Please consider donating to our Parents Forum today.


Parents Forum needs your support to expand our work to strengthen families and communities

02/24/2024

Parents Forum is counting on you!!

Parents Forum is running Love and Luck Fundraising
Every contribution makes a difference

Please consider donating to our Parents Forum today.

Please text "LoveLuck24" to 844-844-6844 to receive a link to our donation page.

From Valentine’s Day to St. Patrick’s Day Parents Forum is holding its annual fundraiser “Love and Luck” https:/...
02/19/2024

From Valentine’s Day to St. Patrick’s Day Parents Forum is holding its annual fundraiser “Love and Luck”

https://mtyc.co/hqia4g

Parents Forum new board chair, Kevin Brathwaite, said “Effective parenting is vital if young people are to achieve their full potential in school, life and work.” Children and youth today are in the grip of a mental health crisis, suffering anxiety and depression at increasing rates and at younger ages.

Parents and caregivers need the skills that Parents Forum teaches in order to help their young people meet the challenges of today’s often confusing, sometimes violent world and help create the strong communities on which we all depend.

Please text "LoveLuck24" to 844-844-6844 to receive a link to our donation page.

Parents Forum needs your support to expand our work to strengthen families and communities

Good news and happy 🍁 fall!Despite summer fun and recent distractions, which include considerable time spent watching th...
09/21/2022

Good news and happy 🍁 fall!

Despite summer fun and recent distractions, which include considerable time spent watching the events following Queen Elizabeth’s passing . . . may she rest in peace . . . I can report that I have been writing and, good news, got some ‘ink’ for Parents Forum.

Our latest newsletter is here with a message from our new board chair Sierrah Chavis in Virginia. In case you do not already subscribe, please do!!
https://mailchi.mp/56838cd21bf5/parents-forum-newsletter-12141211

I got letter in the New York Times … how about that!?
https://nyti.ms/3qGKImK
…commenting on David Brooks article about the importance of talking to strangers:
https://nyti.ms/3RwB41t

And a letter in the September-October issue of Harvard Magazine
https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2022/09/letter-so22
…responding to the June-July cover article on youth mental health
https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2022/07/feature-childrens-mental-health

Finally I was able to contribute an article, ‘Naming feelings: a dependable “dimmer” for conflict,’ to the fall issue of Contemporary Family.
https://contemporaryfamilymagazine.com
The theme of the issue was high conflict in families. I tried and tried to preview the issue but had no luck, so I will give you the closing bit of the article here.
If we consider feelings, acknowledge them and name them for ourselves, and encourage those whom we work with, serve and care for to do the same, I believe we have a good chance of reducing the intensity of interpersonal conflict. We won’t eliminate it, of course, but we have a chance of building better habits of communication and thereby mitigating the negative effects of high conflict.

I’ll be happy to read any comments on any of the above!

Cheers,

Eve
Cambridge Mass.

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