Practical Ideas for Raising & Understanding Children.
Each year, WHPS offers a rotating series of free Parent Masterclasses for current, prospective, and alumni families, bringing experts in child development, education, and family life directly to our community.
Across the year, families are invited to sessions on the questions parents are actually navigating, from resilience, anxiety, and executive function to giftedness, neurodiversity, school transitions, and more.
Upcoming Masterclass invitations are shared through our monthly newsletter.
Conversations Families Are Having Right Now.
Recent sessions have focused on understanding children more deeply, building independence, and helping families navigate important decisions with greater confidence.
Learning & Developmental Assessments
How psychoeducational, neuropsychological, and other evaluations can help families understand a child’s strengths, needs, timing, and possible next steps.
Resilience & Independence
Practical ways to help children tolerate frustration, solve problems, build confidence, persevere through challenges, and become increasingly independent.
Middle School Selection
Helping families understand local middle-school options, visits, admissions, the ISEE, and how to approach the transition thoughtfully.
The Questions Change. The Need for Good Guidance Doesn’t.
Some subjects return because families continue to ask about them. Others reflect new questions, new speakers, and what children and parents are navigating right now.
Executive Function
Planning, organization, independence, focus, and follow-through.
Emotional Regulation
Understanding big feelings and helping children build lasting coping skills.
Neurodiversity
Understanding different learning, thinking, and developmental profiles.
Giftedness
Asynchronous development, intensity, advanced learning, and support.
Anxiety
Recognizing anxiety and helping children develop useful strategies.
Big Emotions
Helping younger children and parents navigate strong emotional responses.
Resilience
Building confidence, persistence, problem-solving, and independence.
Parenting With Perspective
Knowing when to help, when to step back, and how children grow through challenge.
Less Noise. More Useful Conversation.
Parenting information is everywhere. Our Masterclasses create something more useful: time with professionals who understand children and can translate research and experience into practical ideas for family life.
Sessions may include psychologists, therapists, educators, occupational therapists, school leaders, and other specialists, depending on the topic.
A Year-Round Resource for Families.
Parent Masterclasses are one of the ways WHPS supports families beyond the classroom. Throughout the year, we create opportunities to learn from knowledgeable professionals, ask questions, and better understand the children we are raising and teaching.
Parent Masterclasses are offered as a resource to the community.
Current, prospective, and alumni WHPS families are welcome.
Free childcare is available for many in-person Masterclasses.