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LCI Resources for Parents

Growing in your noble vocation

LCI Resources for Parents

Growing in your noble vocation


EXPERT RESOURCES FOR PARENTS

For parents within and outside the Montrose community, the LifeCompass Institute (LCI) hosts a variety of learning opportunities and events, including the LCI Speaker Series for Parents, parent coffees with the Director of Wellness & Formation and other school leaders, and practical workshops on topics that impact girls.

In addition, LCI partners with other organizations offering additional resources for parents.

 

SPEAKER SERIES for parents

The LifeCompass Speaker Series for Parents hosts speakers throughout the year, usually in the evening, to support the School's aim to build authentic, collaborative relationships with parents and offer parent enrichment. These seminars are designed to offer expert information and resources to parents. The LCI Speaker Series for Parents is open to the public and free of charge.

Speaker Series for Students

The LifeCompass Speaker Series for students was established to bring to campus speakers whose inspirational stories give witness to greatness of mind, heart and character in action.

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The life portraits of our speakers become part of our ongoing conversation about what matters most in life and the call to respond nobly to the challenges and opportunities before us. 

 

Recent LCI speakers include:

Kerry Cronin on "Friendship and Dating"

In an era of texting, social media and swiping left or right, has dating for young people become outdated?

Montrose hosted an evening with Dr. Cronin of Boston College, star of the documentary The Dating Project. After a screening of the 70-minute film, Dr. Cronin discussed how we can help young people bring back the “social script” of dating.  Earlier in the day, Dr. Cronin met with groups of upper school students and spoke with them about friendship and dating. "One thing that I really admire about Montrose...is the beautiful vision of education and of personal and intellectual and spiritual flourishing here," she told Montrose Podcast host Mary Cahill Farella.

Listen more on Montrose Podcast. 

A popular and frequently requested speaker, Dr. Cronin is known on the Boston College campus as “the dating professor.” Her assignment for students to ask someone out on a date has been covered in the Washington Post, Boston Globe and Chicago Tribune. Dr. Cronin is the Associate Director of BC’s Lonergan Institute and Philosophy Fellow at the Center for Student Formation.
Dr. Leonard Sax on "Instagram Ate My Daughter"

Recent research demonstrates that the more time a girl spends on social media, the more likely she is to become anxious or depressed.

Dr. Sax addressed why this effect is so strong for most girls and what parents need to know - and do - about how their daughters are using social media, as well as a variety of other questions on adolescent development. Dr. Sax is an internationally sought-after speaker and author of four books on child and adolescent development, including Girls on the Edge and Boys Adrift. He has appeared on the Today Show, CNN, NPR, PBS, Fox News and other international news outlets. A graduate of MIT with an MD and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Sax maintains a clinical family practice in Chester County, PA.

 

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PRACTICAL WISDOM FOR PARENTS AND EDUCATORS


PARENTING ARTICLES by lci and partners

How to Help Girls Reframe Anxiety and Strengthen Resilience 8 Tips for Promoting Dialogue in a Climate of Division
The World Awaits Your Impact Help Children Find the Power of Awe

LCI Parent Resources 

LCI BLOG Parents' independent school network (PIN)
Int'l Federation for Family development  PARENTHOOD365

IN THIS SECTION

Renowned Harvard social scientist and New York Times bestselling author Arthur Brooks speaks on "The Most Important Thing in Life."

Montrose School hosted Dr. Brooks for an afternoon and evening of presentations on his widely acclaimed book, Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt.

Montrose juniors and seniors joined Dr. Brooks for a roundtable discussion on everything from building bridges across the political divide to the radical prospect of really “loving your enemies.” He also spoke to the wider parent community about “The Most Important Thing in Life” and captivated the audience with his wit, his moving stories, and his research into how expressing love can help us forge deeper, more meaningful connections with friends, family, and strangers -- and those we struggle to embrace.

Dr. Brooks is Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School and Arthur C. Patterson Faculty Fellow at the Harvard Business School and columnist for The Washington Post.

Hear more from Dr. Brooks on Montrose Podcast.

Before joining the Harvard faculty in July 2019, he served for ten years as president of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a public policy think tank in Washington, DC. An economist by training, he has spent decades studying culture and public policy. His work in topics from technical economics to the sources of human happiness has established his reputation as a bestselling author, a prolific social scientist, and an original thinker.