February Networking Hour: Helping Families Create
Paths to Co-Parenting
Friday, February 28th
9am PT / 12pm ET
Join us, along with expert Maria Natapov, to discuss co-parenting strategies in parent education. Who are co-parents? It depends who you ask!
Co-parents might include two married parents who want to explore sharing the child-rearing load more equitably. Co-parenting may also include divorced spouses, or two adults who share a child, but are no longer romantically connected. In some families, co-parenting goes beyond two adults to include one or more new step-parents or romantically connected partners who will have some child-rearing responsibility.
What do children need to thrive in any of these family structures? A team of adults who help them feel loved, safe, and secure. And that’s where parent educators come in!
Come and share your lessons learned, experience, and best practices for supporting the adults in a child’s life to co-parent effectively.
Maria Natapov is a stepparenting and co-parenting expert and trusted advisor to divorce professionals, financial advisors, and parenting coaches. She is Vice Chair of The Sparrow Collective, a non-profit dedicated to creating supportive housing for women and children going through divorce. Maria has supported numerous families through her VIP Stepparenting Breakthrough model and her podcast, Synergistic Stepparenting.
The National Parenting Education Network (NPEN) operates through the lens of equity and justice. We know the importance of social justice (racial, economic, educational, health, housing, employment, criminal, and environmental), diversity, equity, inclusion, access, and belonging within the parenting education field and our organization. We demonstrate our commitment to these realities by ensuring that our membership and leadership roles are open to parenting professionals of all ethnicities, socio-economic statuses, ages, abilities, religions, sexual orientations, nationalities, genders, and marital statuses.
Children learn about a just society through the words and actions of their parents, caregivers, and others. We assert that our anti-racism and anti-oppression parenting education and family advocacy work allows everyone to be heard and supported. Our work includes promoting diverse parenting educators and parenting education in our media, webinars, member communications, leadership opportunities, networking, conferences, trainings, and advocacy. By keeping racial justice, diversity, equity, inclusion, access, and belonging at the forefront, we create an environment within NPEN that supports parenting educators, parents, and caregivers, thereby, encouraging children’s healthy growth and development.
