We're excited to announce our 2010 Parent University event will be held March 30, 6:30pm (registration at 5:45), at Science Museum Oklahoma and will feature Dawn Billings, LPC, parenting expert, family counselor, author of over 20 books, speaker with Love and Logic, and entrepreneur. The subject of her two-hour presentation is "Don't Feed the Gimme Monster: Raising Grateful Kids in an Entitled World." Tickets are now available! Get yours here.

Here is our press release about the event:

Parent University event provides practical tips on raising grateful, giving children

Parents, teachers, counselors and other family advocates will learn practical and powerful child development information and applicable how-tos at an upcoming workshop by Dawn Billings. The Parent University workshop, "Don't Feed the Gimme Monster: Raising Grateful Kids in an Entitled World," is being hosted by MetroFamily Magazine and sponsored by Providence Hall Classical School. Scheduled for Tuesday, March 30, 2010 from 6:30 to 9pm. (registration 5:45pm), it will be held at Science Museum Oklahoma (2100 NE 52nd, OKC, just west of OKC Zoo).

Dawn Billings, M.A., LPC, is a family counselor, entrepreneur, nationally-recognized speaker and author of over 20 books, including “Greatness and Children: Learn the Rules” and “From Innocence to Entitlement: A Love and Logic Cure for the Tragedy of Entitlement” with Love and Logic co-founder Jim Fay. Billings was recently named one of 80 emerging women leaders by O Magazine and The White House Project.

Topics presented at the workshop include:

• What destroys motivation and self-esteem in children
• The research behind raising happy and thriving children
• The birth and evolution of entitlement
• The secrets to winning the war on entitlement in your children/students
• Inspiring children to understand they are capable of greatness

Billings explains, “The main objective of this program is to educate the audience on effectively eliminating the negative culture entitlement creates and instead, establish a win-win environment within the home and classroom.”

Tickets for the workshop are $20 per person or $15 per person for those ordering two or more tickets. To help parents with the problem of “what to do with the kids” during the workshop, Science Museum Oklahoma is offering a mini-camp for 1st through 6th graders for just $15 a child.

For more details and ticket purchasing, go here. For further questions, contact MetroFamily at 405-340-1404.