Read more about the following events:

Raising Sexually Healthy Children in Challenging Times, April 30
Treasure to Trash - San Francisco Day Museum of Art, May 7 & 8
Library: Dates to Remember, April 30, May 16 & 23, June 2 & 9
Talent Share Season, May 9 & 16
Midsummer Night's Dream, May 20
Upcoming Service Learning Opportunities, April 26, May 11, 17 & 31
JCC presents Mary Pipher, May 5

Raising Sexually Healthy Children in Challenging Times
with Debra Haffner, M.Div., MPH
Wednesday, April 30, 2008

 9:00-10:30am, Mineah Theater, Marin Country Day School OR
7:00-8:30 p.m. JCC in San Francisco

Marin Country Day School and San Francisco Day School are pleased to bring Debra Haffner to the Bay Area. Debra Haffner, author of From Diapers to Dating and Beyond the Big Talk, has been at the forefront of sexuality education for the past 25 years. For this talk Debra will focus on her most recent book What Every 21st - Century Parent Needs to Know: Facing Today's Challenges with Wisdom and Heart. She will be addressing the many parenting challenges of today - stress, internet safety, cell phones, bulling, depression, drugs and sexuality.

Reverend Debra Haffner has been featured in Time, Newsweek, USA today and on Oprah, Dateline, CBS This Morning, Weekend Today and CNN. Her talks are energizing, reassuring, informative and practical. Bring your questions and your checkbooks! We will be selling all three of Dr. Haffner's books. To learn more about Debra you can look at her website at www.21stcenturyparent.com.

Treasure to Trash
San Francisco Day Museum of Art

Upper School Art Show              Lower School Art Show
May 7th, 5:00-7:00pm                 May 8th, 5:00-7:00pm

Trash to Treasure ideas and themes include:

• Most Compostable
• Most Recycled
• Most Renewable
• Most Colorful
• Most Educational
• And more!

Library: Dates to Remember
April 30       Trenton Lee Stewart book signing in the library at 3:00pm
May 16        Last day to check-out books
May 23        All books due!
June 2        Summer Reading List
June 9        Summer check-out

Talent Share Season
Talent Shares are an opportunity for students who work with an adult outside of school to share their talent and the results of hours of preparation and practice. If your child studies music or dance after school hours, please encourage her or him to perform.

Friday, May 9 - 2nd and 3rd grade Talent Share
Friday, May 16 - Kindergarten, 1st and 4th grade Talent Share

Midsummer Night's Dream
May 20th, 10:00am
Upper School Music Room

Students will put on an in-class showing of scenes from Shakespear's Midsummer Night's Dream. This will be an informal performance. Sixth grade parents are welcome to attend.

Upcoming Service Learning Opportunities
Ronald McDonald House
Sunday, May 11 - Dinner Prep, 6:00-8:00pm
Saturday, May 31 - Breakfast Prep, 9:00-11:00am

SF Food Bank
Saturday April 26, 9:00-12:00pm - 8 years and older
Saturday May 17, 9:00-12:00pm - 8 years and older

For more information, check out the Service Learning page.

Parent Education Recommends the Upcoming Event
The JCC presents Mary Pipher, author of the 1994 best seller Reviving Ophelia, the book that opened America's eyes to the psychological toll that adolescent girls face growing up in a country rife with sexual abuse, school violence and an overwhelming pressure to be thin.

Her second book, The Shelter of Each Other: Rebuilding Our Families, explores the loss of community in America that encourages people to develop their own family structures rather than rely on popular culture to do it for them, and urges them to be selective in the media they allow to enter their lives.

The lecture is Monday, May 5 at 6: 30 p.m.  $15 member, $20 public. Go to the JCC website to purchase tickets.