Book Talk Breakfast with Claire Lerner: Big Reactors
January 23, 2026 @ 9:15 am - 10:15 am
Join us for a special workshop with Claire Lerner, author of the new book Big Reactors: Practical Strategies for Parenting Highly Sensitive Children. Drawing on more than 35 years of hands-on work with children and families, Claire will:
- Describe the key traits and challenges of highly sensitive kids
- Reveal the process—the “detective work”—she guides parents through to understand the root cause of their child’s challenges and to come up with sensitive, effective strategies that work in real life, not just in theory.
- Provide a reality-based roadmap for how parents and other caregivers can find solutions to their unique experiences with their extraordinary kids that take into consideration that every child and family is different, and that there is not a one-size-fits-all approach.
The session will include ample time for Q&A.
Excerpts from the book can be found here.
About Claire Lerner
Claire is a nationally recognized child development and parenting expert with more than three decades of experience in education and direct practice. Claire partners with parents to decode their children’s behavior and solve their most vexing childrearing challenges. She also trains pediatric residents in child development and parenting, and provides mental health consultation at DC area preschools. In addition to her clinical work with families, Claire led the parenting division of Zero to Three for nearly 20 years, translating the science of early childhood for parents. Claire is the author of hundreds of parenting resources, including blogs, podcasts, videos.