Join us as author Janis Johnston, Ed.D., offers an exploration of how our own childhood memories and needs influence and shape our parenting decisions as adults.

Offering tips, stories from a variety of families and step-by-step exercises, Dr. Johnston helps parents better understand and grasp the tools necessary to face parenting challenges head on, and to explore new ways of understanding ourselves, our children and our family interactions. She will also read from her book, It Takes a Child to Raise a Parent: Stories of Evolving Child and Parent Development.

This program is for expectant and current parents interested in understanding their own personality development, as well as the many moods of childhood, and their own children. Whether your children are still young or on their own as adults, or you just simply want to know more about yourself, Dr. Johnston will offer insights from which we can all benefit. Copies of her book will be available for sale at the event.

About Janis Clark Johnston, Ed.D.

Janis Clark Johnston, Ed.D. is a Counseling Psychologist with 40 years of experience as a school psychologist, an EAP therapist, a supervising psychologist at a mental health center, a private practice family therapist, a trainer for agencies, and an author of two books -- It Takes a Child to Raise a Parent (2013) and Midlife Maze: A Map to Recovery and Rediscovery after Loss (2017).

Her Master's degree in School Psychology and her Doctorate in Counseling Psychology are from Boston University. She is a regular speaker at national, state, and local conferences, and is active in several organizations that support children and families. In addition to augmenting and supporting personal growth in families, Johnston is a Master Gardener and loves nurturing growth in the plants in her yard. 

This program, presented by Friends of the Edgewater Library, is free and open to the public. Join us in the Betty A. Barclay Community Room on the second floor of the Edgewater Library at 6000 N. Broadway.