High Meadows School invites you to a special community program:
An Evening with Dr. Wendy Mogel
New York Times bestselling author of
The Blessing of a Skinned Knee
&
The Blessing of a B Minus
Wednesday, October 29
7:30 – 8:30 p.m.
High Meadows School
Community Center
Join us to hear Dr. Mogel discuss how parents can raise self-reliant, appreciative children in an entitled and nervous world.
Dr. Mogel will host a book signing immediately following the presentation. Books will be available for purchase.
This event is open to the public. Tell your friends, and feel free to forward this email!
Admission is free, but donations will be accepted with gratitude at the door.
About Dr. Wendy Mogel
Dr. Mogel is an internationally acclaimed psychologist, author and public speaker. Publisher’s Weekly gave her — now classic — parenting book, “The Blessing of a Skinned Knee,” a starred review, calling it “impassioned, lyrical and eminently practical…a real treasure.” Her revelatory second release, “The Blessing of a B Minus,” addresses the challenge of parenting adolescents in a culture of anxiety and entitlement. Publisher’s Weekly raved, “Mogel’s compassion and authenticity will ring true with parents of all faiths facing the tumultuous teen years.”
Currently, she is working on a third book — a guide for teenagers rather than their parents — aimed at helping them develop the critical skills of self-knowledge, self-discipline and self-assurance in our highly pressured and rapidly changing world.
Dr. Mogel’s disarming candor, quick wit, and signature use of cutting-edge psychological research coupled with timeless Jewish wisdom, guides parents through the rough waters of child-rearing, adding a measure of joy and humor to their voyage. Drawing on insights from her thirty-five year career in clinical psychology, hilarious anecdotes (and sound advice) from school and camp counselors, and eye-opening conversations with middle and high school students, Dr. Mogel unravels the paradox of good-intentioned, devoted parenting gone astray. She explains how over-protection, over-scheduling, over-indulgence and perfectionism undermine children’s intrinsic motivation, resilience, and pride in their achievements. Parents are freed to adopt a kinder, firmer, and ultimately more effective approach to the trenches of daily family life.
Dr. Mogel is known for her enlightening, frank, and deft approach to “parenting” parents by supporting and guiding them in raising their children and coaching them into becoming mature stakeholders in our schools.
A graduate of Middlebury College, Wendy Mogel completed an internship and post-doctoral fellowship in Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. She currently serves as a research and policy advisor for Challenge Success–a program of the Stanford University School of Education, and serves on the scientific advisory board of Parents Magazine, and on the board of the Counsel for Spiritual and Ethical Education-a century old inter-faith organization serving private schools. She contributes articles to a variety of publications including Independent School Magazine, Parents Magazine, and Camping Magazine and is regularly featured as a guest expert by The TODAY Show, and in interviews by reporters from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Newsweek, The Chicago Tribune, CNN, and NPR.
In 2006, The New York Times Sunday Magazine published a profile by Dr. Mogel and her work: “So the Torah is a Parenting Guide” by Emily Bazelon. It was the most emailed article on the Times site for a month.
An interesting and little known fact — Dr. Mogel was born in a car under the 59th Street Bridge in Manhattan. She currently lives and practices in Los Angeles.
www.wendymogel.com
