A Putting Family First quiz and a package of popcorn was sent home with all Wayzata West Middle School students today. For those families visiting this site after taking our "quiz", please enter your quiz scores on our new Polls page. Thank you for taking the time to visit our website.

Posted by Susan at 5/28/2002 01:01:18 PM | Link

 
I've updated our Media page, adding lots of references to older articles that are no longer online. I've also created a TV coverage section. Email me if you're aware of any that we're missing.

Posted by Griff at 5/21/2002 11:19:16 AM | Link

 
The front page of today's Variety section in the Star Tribune (Twin Cities) has this article:

Scaling back activities can still feel risky to college applicants (Headline in print edition)

'Putting family first' works for one college applicant (Headline in online edition)

"The Richardses are part of Putting Family First, a grassroots group started three years ago in Wayzata by families who wanted to put the brakes on their youngsters' run-away schedules. And as it turns out, their daughter Lauren will enter a prestigious college this fall -- on a full-tuition scholarship."

See our Media Coverage page for links to other articles in the past two years.

Posted by Griff at 5/15/2002 09:57:24 AM | Link

 
Putting Family First met with over 25 Clergy and representives from area faith communities in two separate meetings in May. Together we explored the problem of hyperactive families. We asked why we think this problem exists and how things got to be like this? We talked about how "extreme busyness" has inflitrated our own lives and how we see it impacting our faith community families. Clergy agreed that they've seen the effects of families struggling with finding time to be together. They pointed out that they see that they are also part of the problem.

Putting Family First proposed a partnership with them, asking clergy to recruit at least 2 lay people to bridge from their communities to the grassroots citizen group of Putting Family First. The hope is that together we can encourage our families to find balance and sanity in their family life.

The launching workshop for this partnership is scheduled for Saturday June 22, 2002.

Posted by Gina at 5/14/2002 03:13:10 PM | Link

 

We are mentioned in Anna Quindlen's column in this week's issue of Newsweek magazine. Doing Nothing is Something: The overscheduled children of 21st-century America, deprived of the gift of boredom.

Posted by Griff at 5/09/2002 11:39:02 AM | Link