| Molly Brown Koch |
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I joined a Child Study group when Jessie was a year old and from that point on I was hooked on groups. A few years later, inspired by the late Marguerite Nussbaum, the state coordinator for the Parent and Family Life Education Program of the Baltimore County Pupil Personnel Department of Baltimore County Schools, I was invited to train to lead groups. At the age of 81 (2009) I'm still facilitating groups and training others to do so. In 2008, with a generous grant from the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, we launched a pilot KEEP THE CONNECTION WORKSHOP for Parents and Other Caregivers in one Baltimore city school. In 2009, the program expanded into four more schools. It is based on "27 Secrets to Raising Amazing Children." In addition to my work with parent groups, I taught religious school for 25 years, conducted workshops for teachers on teacher-student relationships, did outreach work with alienated teenagers, and for over 30 years I counseled hundreds of parents whose children were members of destructive cults. All of my work has involved children and families. I love helping parents discover the expert parent within themselves. And I loved reuniting families split apart because of their differences. From time to time I attracted a little attention and received a few awards here and there:
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Bill and I were married 1947and sixty-one years later we're still glad about it. Our daughter Jessie was born 1948, followed by our daughter Andrea in 1952, and our son Richard rounded out the family in 1956. Marriage and parenting were both works-in-progress for us from the start and we're still working at it. We're grandparents, too. Sam was born 1987, Ben in 1991, and Sara 1994.