FREE PANEL DISCUSSION INSPIRED BY GOD OF CARNAGE
Sunday, October 23 at 4pm
How are parents of today doing? How do contemporary parents differ from parents in the 50's and 60's? How has technology changed the parent-child dynamic when your child is teaching you how to work your computer or cell phone? Join the conversation.
Terry Gildea (Moderator) is the KUER 90.1 News Director. He comes to KUER from San Antonio where he spent four years as a reporter and host at Texas Public Radio. While at KSTX, he created, produced and hosted the station's first local talk show, The Source. He covered San Antonio's military community for the station and for NPR's Impact of War Project. Terry's features on wounded warriors, families on the home front and veterans navigating life after war have aired on Morning Edition, Weekend Edition and All Things Considered. His half-hour radio documentary exploring the burn unit at Brooke Army Medical Center was honored by the Houston Press and the Texas Associated Press Broadcasters. Prior to his position in San Antonio, Terry covered Congress for two years with Capitol News Connection and Public Radio International . He holds a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Washington and a master's degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. Terry enjoys spending time with his wife and two young sons, fixing bicycles and rooting for his hometown Seattle Mariners.
Matthew Davies, Ph.D, (Panelist) is a licensed psychologist who has been working with children, adolescents and families for over 30 years. He attended the University of Utah and trained primarily at The Children's Center in Salt Lake City where he worked with emotionally and behaviorally challenged preschool and latency age children and their families for nearly 12 years. He entered private practice in 1986 and has been working exclusively with children, adolescents and their families since. In addition to seeing children and adolescents therapeutically, he routinely conducts psychological and parental fitness evaluations for the court and has been conducting custody and time sharing evaluations since 1987. He has been actively involved in promoting children's rights and, in 2000, was appointed to the Standing Committee on Child and Family Law where he served as the Chair of the Child Custody Subcommittee for over two years.
Muffy Mead-Ferro is the author of the best-selling Confessions of a Slacker Mom and Confessions of a Slacker Wife. Ms. Mead-Ferro has written for two essay anthologies as well as Child Magazine and The New York Times, among others. Muffy and her work have been featured in the media on shows such as Oprah, The Today Show and Talk of the Nation and in publications such as The Atlantic and The London Times. She has recently finished a memoir/family history titled One Foot in Wyoming which will be released by Globe Pequot in 2012, and is working on a western novel set in Wyoming. She and her husband Michael along with kids Belle and Joe reside in Salt Lake City during the school year and in Alta, Wyoming during the summer.
Joe and Melanie Borgenicht have been married for 13 years (together for 16). They have two sons, 10 and 6. Occasionally, they all take turns getting on each other's nerves but at the end of the day they all love each other deeply. During the day, the boys go to 5th and 1st grades and Joe and Melanie go to work. Joe is a writer (on pause) and a golf accessory inventor. Melanie is a scenic painter and interior designer. All of their original parents have been divorced though they both idealize Joe's maternal grandparents who were together for an astounding 70 years! As parents, they've fought about sleep, feeding, diaper changing, school, conflict, friends, homework, making mistakes, fights, mental abuse of the older brother over the younger, cleaning up, health, medicine, schedules, and dogs. They have different approaches to parenting and those approaches collide every once in a while, but mostly Melanie is right.
Panel will be moderated by Utah celebrity to be announced.
