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The WPC begins its contribution to the Parent to Parent Network's mental health awareness campaign with a book club on The Price of Privilege beginning in January, followed by an author visit in April.
Why Focus on Mental Health?
Learn more about the P2PN campaign on their web site. <more>.
Review the WPC December Newsletter for more about the WPC campaign.
Book Club Selection
The Price of Privilege :
How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating
a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids by Madeline Levine, Ph. D.
"In this controversial look at privileged families, Levine offers thoughtful, practical advice as she explodes one child-rearing myth after another. With empathy and candor, she identifies parenting practices that are toxic to healthy self-development and that have contributed to epidemic levels of depression, anxiety, and substance abuse in the most unlikely place - the affluent family."
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The Price of Privilege Book Jacket
"Levine's fresh and important ideas about parenting in the age of affluence will help parents teach their children what they most need to learn - how to manage their emotions and impulses, form healthy relationships, think for themselves, and become useful, well-adjusted, moral people."
- Mary Pipher, Ph. D.
Price of Privilege Web Site
Book Review from US News and World Report
Join our Book Club
January through March at Border's at the Promenade
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Blog with Us
Have you ever read a book and wished you had someone to talk to about the ideas the author presented? Or attended a book club discussion only to come up with a question you wish you had thought of earlier? Then the WPC Blog is the place to go.
For those of you reading The Price of Privilege, we hope you will think critically about what the author has to say. Post your thoughts. Comment on what you read. Ask questions and compare notes. Your thoughts will help us all think more, question more, ponder more....learn more. You can sign your name or remain anonymous.
Price of Privilege Blog
Author Visit
Madeline is coming to Westlake
April 1, 7:00 pm, Westlake Schools Performing Arts Center
Admission is FREE and open to the public
Over 550 people enjoyed the informative, timely, and empowering talk by child psychologist and author Dr. Madeline Levine. Thank you again to our many sponsors for making this program possible.
Photos from the Event
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