Tips on how to “drug-proof” your teenagers will be one of strategies revealed at this year’s Family Expo at The University of Queensland.
International and Australian family experts will speak at the one-day conference designed to strengthen marriage and family relationships.
Organiser and Family Council of Queensland President Alan Baker said more than 2000 people were expected for the conference on Saturday, July 24 at the UQ Centre.
“Parents need all the help they can get in bringing up their kids in today’s world,” Mr Baker said.
“We live in a family-toxic world. Parenting has become too complex to be left to intuition, conventional wisdom or trial and error. Parents must have skills.
“The environment is no longer on our side as it was for our parents.”
Five key speakers, such as American counsellors Professor Wally Goddard and Dr Brent Yorgason, will speak about:
– The Perils and Passions of Positive Parenting
– Are Children Angels, Devils or Clay? Working With Human Nature
– The Frightful and Joyous Journey of Family Life
– How to Drug-Proof Your Kids
– Languages of Love: More Than Saying I Love You
– Does Working on Your Marriage Work? Five Things You Can Work on and Five Things You Cannot; and
– Making Marriage Magic.
Clinical psychology Associate Professor Alan Ralph, from UQ’s Parenting and Family Support Centre, will speak about raising confident, competent children.
Australian Governor-General Major General Michael Jeffery will open the third annual expo which will also have a range of family and government exhibitors.
UQ is sponsoring the expo and the Queensland Department of Communities will display parental tip sheets on everything from dealing with fussy toddlers to helping teenagers handle peer pressure.
Mr Baker, a financial planner, said he founded the expo as a non-religious community service after visiting a similar conference in the United States with his wife in 2000.
To register online, visit www.familyexpo.net, or phone 07 3855 3711.
Earlybird prices apply before June 30 and prices vary from $25 for a half-day single to $90 a couple for a full day, after June 30.
For more information, contact Alan Baker (phone 07 3221 1641, 0412 265 157, email: info@familyexpo.net or Miguel Holland at UQ Communications (phone: 3365 2619, email: m.holland@uq.edu.au)
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