An Inspirational Parenting Panel

If you think of parenthood as a journey of learning, hope, love, and resilience, it’s hard to imagine a more inspiring or instructive panel discussion than the one assembled by the Flawless Foundation, which champions programs that “discover and nurture the perfection in every child,” next Saturday, April 9, at 4:30 p.m. Brought together by their mission to help children with brain differences, the panel includes two pioneering clinicians and educators, Harold S. Koplewicz, M.D., of the Child Mind Institute, and Stuart Ablon, Ph.D., director of Think: Kids in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital; Shonda Schilling, wife of baseball legend Curt Schilling and bestselling author of “The Best Kind of Different: Our Family’s Journey with Asperger’s Syndrome;” and Shari and Garen Staglin, who, inspired by their son’s diagnosis of schizophrenia, created The Music Festival for Mental Health and the International Mental Health Research Organization. The panel discussion includes a follow-up cocktail reception catered by Chef David Burke. It is part of a fundraising evening chaired by Congressman Patrick Kennedy for The Flawless Foundation. Interested New York Family readers can pay half off the ticket price–or a total of $125–to attend the panel discussion and cocktail party. For more info and to purchase tickets, visit flawlessfoundation.org.