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Start: 7:00 pm
Grattan School and The Booksmith
invite you to hearPO BRONSONdiscussing NURTURESHOCK: New Thinking About Children Monday, May 17 at
7:00 PMGrattan School Auditorium165 Grattan Street between Cole and ShraderDoors open at 6:30 for purchase of books, coffee, and
sweets Award-winning
journalist Po Bronson presents the research behind his latest book, Nurtureshock,
providing a revolutionary perspective on childhood that upends a
library's worth of conventional wisdom. Many of society's strategies for
nurturing children are backfiring because key twists in the science
have been overlooked. Tips from Po Bronson on "How Not to Helicopter": Praise children less and help
them develop accurate awareness of how well they're doing -- don't try
to spin them into believing they're better than they are. Protect
their sleep hours fiercely. When young children hurt each
other's feelings, give them a chance to come back together on their own.
You might not see apologies or overt repair, but scientists are
learning that repair can be implicitly implied when kids end up
side-by-side again. Choose schools that don't assign too much
homework (more than an hour in middle school is too much), and the
schools will finally get the message. Protect play time, and as
children mature, help make sure they still have outlets for fantasy. By
the time a child is 11, don't encourage or expect her to tell you
everything. Some things need to be none of your business. Set a few
rules and enforce them, but in other domains encourage independence and
autonomy. Copies of
Nurtureshock will be available for purchase, courtesy of The
Booksmith, and 50% of the profits will be donated back to Grattan
School. MAKE
FRIENDS. RAISE MONEY FOR SCHOOL. LEARN NEW STUFF. Po
Bronson on NPR
Start: 7:30 pm
Peter Schrag's Not Fit for Our Society: Nativism and Immigration is a book of deep and
telling ironies. Peter provides essential background for understanding the
fractious debate over immigration. Covering the earliest days of the Republic
to current events, Schrag sets the modern immigration
controversy within the context of three centuries of debate over the same
questions about who exactly is fit for citizenship.
Tyche Hendricks' The Wind Doesn't Need a Passport: Stories
from the U.S.-Mexico Border
is also a look at immigration. Award-winning journalist Tyche
Hendricks has explored the U.S.-Mexico borderlands by car and by foot, on
horseback, and in the back of a pickup truck. She has shared meals with border
residents, listened to their stories, and visited their homes, churches,
hospitals, farms, and jails. In this dazzling portrait of one of the least understood
and most debated regions in the country, Hendricks introduces us to the
ordinary Americans and Mexicans who live there—cowboys and Indians, factory
workers and physicians, naturalists and nuns.
Peter Schrag, for many years the editorial page editor
and later a weekly columnist for the Sacramento Bee, currently
contributes to The Nation, Harper's, The Los Angeles Times, and other
publications. He is a visiting scholar at the Institute for Governmental
Studies at the University of California at Berkeley
and the author of several books, including Paradise Lost and California:
America's High-Stakes Experiment and Final Test: The Battle
for Adequacy in America's
Schools.
Tyche Hendricks is a reporter who spent a dozen years at the
San Francisco Chronicle where she covered immigration and demographics. She
is a lecturer at the Graduate School of Journalism at the UC Berkeley.
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