Providing Support
Collegiate Parenting Network is a partnership between educators, medical professionals, community members, and parents to share knowledge and provide support with the goal of raising children who live lives of impact.
Through our Parenting Network, gain insight into best practices for raising children in today’s world, learn about the role of technology on developing brains, dive deeply and share in book study programs, and have meaningful discussions about navigating parenting. As a Collegiate parent, you have access to an archive of resources from previous Parent Network events and topics.
Past Parenting Network Events
| Symposium on Technology & Social Media |
| With the goal of helping this generation of children grow up healthy and resilient in this digitally driven world, educators, parents, and local experts shared insights, advice, recommendations, and resources with parents during an afternoon of conversation and learning. In addition to a parent panel that offered practical advice from real-life experience, the symposium featured several breakout sessions on a variety of topics, including social media, artificial intelligence, healthy habits, and skill development. |
| Getting Comfortable Being Uncomfortable: Helping Kids Engage in Productive Struggle and Civil Discourse |
| A group of our expert faculty from across all divisions shared age/developmentally appropriate insights and strategies on helping children persevere through their challenges and be able to know what to do when they don't know what to do. Panelists included Prekindergarten Teacher Maisy Abdul, 8th Grade Math Teacher Daniel Baker, Athletic Director Mitch Fiegel, 5th Grade History Teacher Martha Leaf, Humanities Teacher Kevin Mykel, and Lower School Science Teacher Jena Simms. |
| Parenting with Less Stress and More Joy |
There is no harder job than being a parent. Nothing else touches so much of a person so deeply—or so unpredictably—and there is no training for it. This was true pre-COVID, as the pace of life accelerated, media influences intensified, and the future grew less predictable. After four challenging years, it’s no wonder parents now find it harder to be confident and reduce their children’s stress — and their own. The Collegiate Parent Association (CPA) and the Wichita Collegiate Leadership team enjoyed partnering to bring nationally renowned psychologists, former teachers, and former child and family therapists Rob Evans and Michael Thompson to campus in September. Dr. Rob Evans and Dr. Michael Thompson outlined the dilemmas mentioned above and worked with both our parents and faculty to come up with concrete methods for successful coping. |
| The Expanding Playpen |
| Children today do not have as many opportunities to practice self-management, to make quick decisions, or to have adventures sans parents as other generations of children have had. With much of the freedom, independence, and family responsibility erased from centuries of childhood, our young people still need to practice these skills necessary for adolescence and adulthood. So, how do parents examine the gap and find opportunities for this to happen? During the workshop, former WCS teacher and administrator Bunny Hill discussed several topics, including experiences that uncover strengths and talents, relationships that are rich and diverse, habits that lead to productivity and achievements, consequences that are instructive, challenges that stretch your child/ren, routines and traditions, responsibilities at home, in the neighborhood, at school, in the community, and within your faith, and ways for parents to honor the expanding sense of self. |
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