Brighton School Parent Teacher Organization hosts speaker and author, Gloria DeGaetano, who will talk on “Parenting Well in a Media/Digital World,” from 6:30-9 p.m., Jan. 30 at Brighton School (6717 212th St. SW. Lynnwood).

DeGaetano says that parents can expect to learn the following:

The new challenges, as well as opportunities, for parenting well in our complex, high-tech society.

Family activities that will help you control “screen-machines” and help your children manage and use TV, video, video games, and digital devices wisely, without compromising brain development or their real needs for optimal cognitive, emotional/social development.

Powerful real needs of your child’s brain and the best ways parents support the complex orchestration of brain growth and mental know-how.

Creative ways to give your children The Vital Five™—the five most important developmental needs that often get shortchanged in our hectic, mass media/digital society.

DeGaetano is the founder and CEO of The Parent Coaching Institute, (PCI), the originator of the parent coaching profession.  A best-selling author, she has written Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill: A Call to Action Against TV, Movie, and Video Game Violence (with Lt. Col. Dave Grossman) and numerous articles and several manuals. Her book Parenting Well in a Media Age, won the 2007 i-Parenting Media Award for excellence. Her latest book is small book of poems, Left To Their Devices, What’s Left? for parent contemplation and action.