GRATTAN SCHOOL BENEFIT with PO BRONSON discussing NURTURESHOCK

 

 

Grattan School Auditorium

165 Grattan Street between Cole and Shrader

Doors 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.