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Uploaded: Tuesday, September 25, 2012, 9:40 AM
Author to lecture on teen resilience this Friday
Theme of talk at Stanford is 'strategies for raising healthy, motivated kids'
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 | The community is invited to an evening of discussion about "strategies for raising healthy and motivated kids" this Friday, Sept. 28, at Stanford University.
The annual event, titled "The Knowledge to Navigate: Strategies for Raising Healthy and Motivated Kids," is sponsored by Challenge Success, a Stanford-based group that promotes strategies for raising resilient children without excessive focus on grades, test scores and performance.
This year's keynote speaker is author and educator Michael Riera, head of the Brentwood School, a K-12 independent school in Los Angeles and author of "Uncommon Sense for Parents with Teenagers" and "Staying Connected to Your Teenager."
Also speaking will be Challenge Success cofounders Denise Pope, a Stanford senior lecturer and author of "Doing School," and Marin County psychologist Madeline Levine, author of the New York Times best-seller "The Price of Privilege" and "Teach Your Children Well."
Attendees are asked to register at the Challenge Success website. A donation of $10 for individuals or $15 per family is suggested.— Palo Alto Weekly staff Are you receiving Express, our free daily e-mail edition? See a sample and sign-up for Express.
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Posted by kk, a resident of the Barron Park neighborhood, on Sep 25, 2012 at 10:30 pm STOP PUSHING KIDS AND PARENTS WITH THESE RIDICULOUS STRATEGY GUIDELINES. We don't need more parents pushing kids. YOU don't teach this, they are born this way. Its a personality trait. Is her next book on how to Raise a 'TYPE A" PERSONALITY???
Let the kids draw pictures and dream about dragons. We have enough perfect SAT scores (repeating the same garbage back like a parrot)...we need kids free to think and dream.
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Posted by Old Palo Alto, a resident of the Old Palo Alto neighborhood, on Sep 26, 2012 at 11:43 am 2 easy steps to raising good kids:
1. Set a good example.
2. Have something in common.
#1 is pretty straight forward.
#2 takes some effort. If you and your kid enjoy a sport(s) or hobby(ies) together, that's a great way to spend time together. If sports is the thing, focus on time together, not competition. More often than not parents focus on competing in sports and it ruins the whole reason for doing it.
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