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Dear Parents and Caregivers,
October is Learning Disabilities Awareness Month! This month, we bring awareness to students impacted by learning differences such as dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, ADHD, and executive function difficulties.
Coming this week:
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October 10: Brain Trauma, Concussion, and CTE: What Should Families Know?, Samantha Bureau, PhD, neuroscientist, Concussion Legacy Foundation
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October 12: Work, Parent, Thrive: Rethinking Rest, Yael Schonbrun, PhD, author, Work, Parent, Thrive, and Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, PhD, author, Rest
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October 13: Parent Forum #26 (English) - Strengthening Trust and Goodwill with Your Child/Teen, Eran Magen, PhD
Join us for two special events focused on student mental health and well-being:
1) How can we teach our kids to strive towards excellence without crushing them? In her new book, Never Enough, NY Times bestselling author Jennifer Breheny Wallace investigates the deep roots of toxic achievement culture (October 18).
2) Too many youth are struggling with mental health. Child psychiatrists Dr. Steve Adelsheim and Dr. Shashank Joshi, Stanford Medicine Children's Health, present Youth Mental Health: Prevention Strategies, Resources, and Support (October 19).
NEW! How can we increase learning and joy while offering kids much-needed support? In Whole Child, Whole Life: 10 Ways to Help Kids Live, Learn & Thrive, Stephanie Malia Krauss offers a guidebook for parents everywhere (October 25).
NEW! In a three-part series, MY BODY TO LOVE, Emmy award-winning filmmaker Preeti Mankar Deb presents short films (6 min) that profile youth coming into their sexuality. Join us for Arjun's Story (Film + Discussion) on October 26.
We are proud to welcome two new members to The Parent Venture community! Say hello to Mercer Island Parent Edge, WA, and Orinda Union School District, CA.
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Warm wishes,
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-- Suzanne Zaino, Parent, Silicon Valley
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Brain Trauma, Concussion, and CTE: What Should Families Know?
Sequoia Healthcare District offers a Community Forum on brain trauma, concussion, and CTE in youth with neuroscientist Samantha Bureau, PhD, Concussion Legacy Foundation.
Tuesday, October 10, 2023
5:30pm β 6:30pm PT
Virtual Event (Live)
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Work, Parent, Thrive: Rethinking Rest
How do we find rest in our busy, daily lives? Join authors Yael Schonbrun, PhD, and Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, PhD, for an engaging conversation on work, rest, and parenting.
Thursday, October 12, 2023
5:30pm β 6:30pm PT
Virtual Event (Live)
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Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic -- And What We Can Do About It
In Never Enough, NY Times bestselling author and journalist Jennifer Breheny Wallace investigates the deep roots of toxic achievement culture and finds out what we must do to fight back.
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
5:30pm β 6:30pm PT
Virtual Event (Live)
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Youth Mental Health: Prevention Strategies, Resources, and Support
Child/adolescent psychiatrists Dr. Steve Adelsheim and Dr. Shashank Joshi, Stanford Medicine Children's Health, offer prevention strategies, tools, and resources to support the mental health of children and teens.
Thursday, October 19, 2023
5:30pm β 6:30pm PT
Virtual Event (Live)
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Whole Child, Whole Life: 10 Ways to Help Kids Live, Learn & Thrive
NEW! How can we increase learning and joy for children? Join Stephanie Malia Krauss, educator, social worker, and author of Whole Child, Whole Life.
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
5:30pm β 6:30pm PT
Virtual Event (Live)
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My Body to Love: Arjun's Story
NEW! Emmy award-winning filmmaker Preeti Mankar Deb offers stories of youth coming into their sexuality. Preeti will be joined by health educators Arjun Sheth and Vanessa Kellam.
Thursday, October 26, 2023
5:30pm β 6:30pm PT
Virtual Event (Live)
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Parent Forum #26 (English) - Strengthening Trust and Goodwill with Your Child/Teen
How can you strengthen parent-child relationships to encourage trust and goodwill? Join Eran Magen, PhD, founder of Parenting for Humans, for a new Parent Forum (English).
Friday, October 13, 2023
12:00pm β 1:00pm PT
Virtual Event (Live)
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Whole Child, Whole Life: 10 Ways to Help Kids Live, Learn & Thrive
Providing practical advice, stories, and time-tested strategies to help kids thrive, Stephanie Malia Krauss' new book, Whole Child, Whole Life, is required reading for anyone working with, caring for, or raising young people.
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Being 13
What's it like being 13 in the age of social media? Anna, London and Addi β three girls from three states, who, at 13, were legally able to join social media, and whose cellphones were always close at hand.
β The New York Times (Gift Article)
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Harry Potter Train in Real Life
Ride the Hogwarts Express with The Jacobite steam train in Scotland, described as the greatest railway journey in the world. All aboard!
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Growing Up in Public: Coming of Age in a Digital World
In her new book, Growing Up in Public, digital media expert Devorah Heitner, PhD, shows parents how to help tweens and teens navigate boundaries, identity, privacy, and reputation in their digital world.
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