Negotiating with Children

Last week we talked about how to make change happen in government  Today we talk about how you can make change happen in your family.  Join me and my guest Mark Kleiman, mediator, as we talk about how to talk with your kids about anything.

Mark is a former staff attorney for the Juvenile Rights Division of Legal Aid Society who left the court system to found and become executive director of Community Mediation Services, Inc. in Queens.

From an initial mentoring program, CMS has developed court diversion programs across the city since 1983 in the areas of juvenile justice, community and family mediation, education, child welfare, youth development and homelessness.

He is a founding board member of the New York City and State divorce mediation councils, a former board member of NYSDRA and of the National Association for Community Mediation. A NYS court certified mediation trainer in community, custody and parent-teen mediation, co-wrote the only Office of Court Administration funded custody/visitation mediation curriculum.

He co-designed the conflict resolution curriculum for Americorps and a curriculum on program development for NAFCM as well as many other systemic applications including a definitive mediation model called Value Centered Mediation.

If you have a teenager (or know someone who has one) you won't want miss this show.