Practical Ideas for Raising & Understanding Children
Raising children comes with questions, and good guidance can make a real difference. Throughout the year, WHPS offers free Parent Masterclasses for current, prospective, and alumni families, bringing thoughtful experts in child development, education, and family life directly to our community.
The topics come from the questions families 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.
Real Questions, Useful Conversations
Recent sessions have helped families understand children more deeply, build independence without overstepping, and approach 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.
Parenting Changes as Children Grow, and the Questions Do, Too
Some subjects return because families keep asking about them. Others emerge from what children and parents are navigating right now. The series is intentionally flexible, so it can stay useful rather than simply repeat the same program each year.
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 advice is everywhere. What is harder to find is thoughtful guidance from professionals who understand children and can turn research and experience into ideas families can actually use.
Sessions may include psychologists, therapists, educators, occupational therapists, school leaders, and other specialists, depending on the topic.
School and Family, Learning Together
Parent Masterclasses bring families and educators into the same conversation, with opportunities to ask questions, learn from knowledgeable professionals, 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.
Because Raising Children Is a Learning Process, Too
WHPS Parent Masterclasses are one more way we invest in the partnership between school and family, with practical ideas, trusted experts, and conversations that continue as children grow.