After a gestation period of over 6 months, the site is up, the speakers are confirmed, and registration is open! Click here if you want to register right away, or read on to find out more.

You won’t want to miss this free online event. I’ve spent months finding speakers to cover a wide range of topics. Many of them have important, transformational tips that most parents do not know about. Information is power, and in the cyber age we live in, we can’t afford to be ignorant. The risk to our family of what you don’t know is too big to be ignored.

The expert speakers cover topics including:

• Conscious relationships from one of the world’s top experts! She is often called "The Therapist’s Therapist" and most of you will already know her. She shares tips on parenting and relationships that are incredibly powerful.
• Internet and personal safety, including cyber and live bullying.
• Raising your children to be leaders, including encouraging them in business
• How to deal with the issues that happen in blended or step-families
• Perfectionism, the unknown indicators and how it erodes parenting and harms children
• The importance of your own personal development as a parent
• Dealing with sensitive and anxious children
• How to be a great parent of a child with ADD/ADHD

A Surprise Addition!

After months of  contact, one of the top brain researchers has just indicated his interest in being part of The Parenting Summit. Assuming we can iron out the details, I will be adding another speaker to the list ! You need to know his information if you want to keep your child’s most precious resource, his brain, working at its optimum.

Bonuses not yet on the Registration Page!

I also have bonus speakers that I will be announcing. Parenting experts with whom I’d worked before, started contacting this week, wanting to be on The Summit. Although each of them could be main speakers, I don’t have time to fit in any more interviews. So I decided to add them as bonus audios so that you get their valuable information .

To register, see the speaker’s bios, and read more about The Parenting Summit, click here .

Thanks for being part of the transformation of parenting across the world!

Last night, as I gathered with my friends prior to the teleseminar conference I’m at, Lisa Nichols, star of The Secret, walked in. I had called her office earlier in the week to ask her to be on The Parenting Summit that starts in 2 weeks. She does amazing work with teens, and has her own personal success going fromstruggling single mom to the highly acclaimed and sought-after speaker that she is. It turns out that she is a surprise guest at our small conference, and so we’ll be seeing her all weekend.

For Valentine’s Day, I wrote a blog post about 14 gifts of love that we can give to our children. As I write this, in the lobby of the Marriott in San Francisco, overlooking the ocean, I know I am giving one of those gifts to my children. I am giving them the gift of a happy, fulfilled mom who does not need to live vicariously through her children. Instead I can applaud their successes, while cexperiencing my own.

The gift I’m giving my kids by doing the work I’m doing, is the gift of a happy, fulfilled mom. I don’t like leaving my family for even 4 days, but by doing so, when I return, I have that much more to offer them. To use Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, I am self-actualizing, and showing my kids that adulthood can be exciting and fulfilling, not just full of the mundane and the routine.

So getting back to Lisa Nichols, she said we’d talk more today about my request to have her on The Parenting Summit! I hope we can meet her requirements, and that she can find 45 minutes in her busy schedule. Success breeds success, and she is such an amazing powerhouse! All of us parents could learn from her work with over 210,000 teens, as well as with her own son.

I’ve been having a great time working on the details for TheParentingSummit.com! The big picture has been in development since last fall, but booking the experts, finding the sponsors and getting the website up has taken a lot of time. Like parenting, going from gestation to launch is a big job!

Okay, I’ll admit it, much like parenting has taken way more work and skills than I thought it would, this project has been intense. Also like parenting, it has been immensely rewarding. We wouldn’t have it any other way once it is all done, right? Graduation is a magical time for parents, and the ceremony for TheParentingSummit.com is almost here!

If you want help for your parenting issues, and you have kids in the 10 to 14 year age group, you want to check out the experts and topics that will be covered in this 8 day event. I’ll be sending out an email to my list early next week with details, as well as posting more information.

In the meantime, feel free to leave comments about topics you want to hear more about, or suggestions for experts you’d like to have me interview. I will resume my monthly interview series soon, and so if the topic or expert isn’t in the summit lineup, I can interview them afterward.

Thanks for being part of the great parenting transformation!

1. Love is committing ourselves to becoming better people for the sake of our children.
2. Love is being patient with them and with ourselves as we slowly or quickly move towards making our intentions a reality.
3. Love is getting up early to exercise, finding time at lunch or finding time in the evening because we know that we are a better parent and a happier, healthier person when we are fit and have those wonderful endorphins coursing through our veins!
4. Love is cultivating our relationship with our partner if we have one, so that our children live in the overflow of our love.
5. Love is treating ourselves as the CEO of our own life, including finding ways to be creative and continue to learn and grow so that we have lots to give our kids, and so that we can let our kids fly and have their own lives when they are ready.
6. Love is asking for help from friends and family, or finding groups to join when parenting gets tough.
7. Love is finding moments to be affectionate and just enjoy each others company.
8. Love is finding ways to heal our wounds and deal with our issues so that we don’t pass them on to our kids.
9. Love is limiting our kids media time so that they develop other interests that are more fulfilling and will make them happier in life.
10. Love is making outside time and fitness part of our kids daily life, including getting out and being active with them even when we’d really like to watch tv, read a book or just putter at home.
11. Love is seeing our child struggle with something and waiting to see if they can do it on their own in order to build confidence, instead of always doing it for them.
12. Love is playing a game of Scrabble on Friday night because it is fun and a bonding experience.
13. Love is planning for the future and looking after our finances so that we can provide for our kids.
14. Love for our children is the biggest challenge and the best reward that we could ever imaging!

Our Love is Enough!

I’ve been very busy putting together details for The Parenting Summit! I have expert authors  lined up such as Dr. Kathlyn Hendricks (http://Hendricks.com ) and Jennifer Kolari (http://connectedparenting.com )I have experts on blended families (Shirley Dudley), Internet and personal safety (Kelly Rudolph http://PositiveWomenRock.com ) and spiritual parenting (Kellie Frazier http://kelliefrazier.com ).

I wanted to take a minute to comment about Kellie Frazier’s powerful article in response to Oprah’s recent show on child abuse. (Check out the full article on her site: http://kelliefrazier.com ) Oprah had the courage to feature child molesters in an attempt to teach parents how to keep their kids safe. Her show is gripping, and should be compulsory viewing for parents.

Unfortunately, many parents who most need to hear this are too busy and are convinced that their family is immune. Unfortunately, many dual-income families, including professionals, are too busy to notice that there kids are needy and in danger. I know this because I was one of those teens who was looking for validation and love. I know the truth of Oprah’s words that abuse changes who we are. Yet my parents are upstanding members of the city I grew up in and have 6 degrees between us. Educated parents does not guarantee anything, nor does income or neighborhood.

Check out the show Oprah did, Kellie Frazier’s blog and leave comments here. I also love that Kellie added that most parents don’t know how to connect with their kids. I know that to be true, and yet a connected family is one of the highest gifts that we can give ourselves. If your child gets abused now because you were oblivious, you will pay heavily. The fact that you are reading this blog suggests that you are not liable to be one of those parents, because you clearly want to connect with your family.