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Jewish Family Service is proud to present
Dr. Ruth Nemzoff
author of
Don’t Bite Your Tongue, How to Foster Rewarding Relationships with Your Adult Children

Monday, December 14, 2009
1-2 pm or 7-8 pm
Mayerson JCC, 8485 Ridge Road, Amberley, OH 45236
$10, $15 at the door
Register online now

Dr. Nemzoff counters the popular belief that parents must let go of their adult children and silence themselves. Increasing life spans mean parents and children can spend as many as five or six decades as adults together.  Yet, at the same time families are confronting sensitive issues such as how to mix cultural traditions, religious practices, and even modes of communication. Dr. Nemzoff, who is a leading expert in family dynamics, empowers parents to create close relationships with their adult children, while respecting their independence.

She will address how to:

  • communicate at long distances
  • discuss financial issues without using money as a form of control 
  • speak up when disapproving of an adult child’s partner or childrearing practices
  • handle adult children's career choices or other midlife changes
  • navigate an adult child’s interreligious, interracial or homosexual union
     

Dr. Nemzoff is a resident scholar at Brandeis University’s Women’s Studies Research Center and an adjunct assistant Professor at Bentley University. Her academic training is in American Studies at Barnard College, in counseling at Columbia University and in Social Policy at Harvard University. She formerly held the position of Assistant Minority Leader of the New Hampshire Legislature and was New Hampshire’s first female Deputy Commissioner of Health and Welfare. 

This program has been generously supported by a gift from Louise and Alan Wolf

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For more information, please contact Sandee Golden at Jewish Family Service, 513-766-3352, sgolden@jfscinti.org