Dr. Madeline Levine - How to Talk to Your Kids About the Coronavirus
Join our partner, the Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta, for a Zoom Live event with New York Times bestselling author and clinical psychologist Dr. Madeline Levine, who will discuss one of today’s most important topics: how to talk to your kids about COVID-19.
The author of the bestselling parenting books, “The Price of Privilege” and “Teach Your Children Well,” will address your concerns and guide you on how to have age-appropriate discussions about the coronavirus with your children. She will also take questions following her presentation.
Join the Zoom event here on Wednesday, March 25, at 8:00 pm.
A Cappella Books has copies of “Ready or Not” available for pre-order and will provide local delivery to customers within a 10-mile radius of our store, as well as curbside pick-up and shipping.
About the Book
The New York Times bestselling author of “The Price of Privilege” and “Teach Your Children Well” explores how today’s parenting techniques and our myopic educational system are failing to prepare children for their certain-to-be-uncertain future—and how we can reverse course to ensure their lasting adaptability, resilience, health and happiness.
In “The Price of Privilege,” respected clinician, Madeline Levine was the first to correctly identify the deficits created by parents giving kids of privilege too much of the wrong things and not enough of the right things. Continuing to address the mistaken notions about what children need to thrive in “Teach Your Children Well,” Levine tore down the myth that good grades, high test scores, and college acceptances should define the parenting endgame. In “Ready or Not,” she continues the discussion, showing how these same parenting practices, combined with a desperate need to shelter children from discomfort and anxiety, are setting future generations up to fail spectacularly.
Increasingly, the world we know has become disturbing, unfamiliar, and even threatening. In the wake of uncertainty and rapid change, adults are doubling-down on the pressure-filled parenting style that pushes children to excel. Yet these daunting expectations, combined with the stress parents feel and unwittingly project onto their children, are leading to a generation of young people who are overwhelmed, exhausted, distressed—and unprepared for the future that awaits them. While these damaging effects are known, the world into which these children are coming of age is not. And continuing to focus primarily on grades and performance are leaving kids more ill-prepared than ever to navigate the challenges to come.
But there is hope. Using the latest developments in neuroscience and epigenetics (the intersection of genetics and environment), as well as extensive research gleaned from captains of industry, entrepreneurs, military leaders, scientists, academics, and futurists, Levine identifies the skills that children need to succeed in a tumultuous future: adaptability, mental agility, curiosity, collaboration, tolerance for failure, resilience, and optimism. Most important, Levine offers day-to-day solutions parents can use to raise kids who are prepared, enthusiastic, and ready to face an unknown future with confidence and optimism.
About the Author
Madeline Levine, PhD, is a psychologist, consultant, and educator; the author of the New York Times bestsellers “Teach Your Children Well” and “The Price of Privilege;” and a cofounder of Challenge Success, a project of the Stanford School of Education that addresses education reform, student well-being, and parent education. She is also a consultant to BDT & Company, a merchant bank that advises and invests in founder- and family-led companies. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and is the proud mother of three adult sons and a newly minted granddaughter.
