FOSTERING RESILIENCE IN CHILDREN AND TEENS (AND WHY IT MATTERS)
On October 20, 2017, over 900 people gathered for the 14th annual parent education event at Stanford University. This year’s event featured Dr. Kenneth Ginsburg, along with Challenge Success Co-Founders Dr. Denise Pope and Dr. Madeline Levine, and provided attendees with the opportunity to explore two big questions:
1. How do we love our children unconditionally and still hold them to high expectations?
2. How do we protect our children while letting them learn life lessons?
A video of the event is below, and we invite you to watch it in its entirety and/or to visit the sections that you find most useful. We also invite you to share the link, as well as what you learn and find meaningful, with others in your family and community.
To watch the full program, allow 90 minutes. If you’d like to skip to particular sections, please reference the topic areas and timestamps below.
On October 20, 2017, over 900 people gathered for the 14th annual parent education event at Stanford University. This year’s event featured Dr. Kenneth Ginsburg, along with Challenge Success Co-Founders Dr. Denise Pope and Dr. Madeline Levine, and provided attendees with the opportunity to explore two big questions:
1. How do we love our children unconditionally and still hold them to high expectations?
2. How do we protect our children while letting them learn life lessons?
A video of the event is below, and we invite you to watch it in its entirety and/or to visit the sections that you find most useful. We also invite you to share the link, as well as what you learn and find meaningful, with others in your family and community.
To watch the full program, allow 90 minutes. If you’d like to skip to particular sections, please reference the topic areas and timestamps below.
- Welcome by Challenge Success Executive Director, Kathy Koo
- Video: Challenge Success Student Team Members at La Canada High School (2:02)
- Comments by Challenge Success Co-Founders, Dr. Madeline Levine and Dr. Denise Pope (6:32)
- Introduction of Dr. Ken Ginsburg by Dr. Denise Pope (17:25)
- Keynote: Dr. Ken Ginsburg
- Introduction: Fostering Resilience in Children & Teens and Why it Matters (18:38)
- How do we love our children unconditionally, but still hold them to high expectations? (30:23)
- How do we protect our children while letting them learn life lessons? (48:19)
- Panel Discussion: Dr. Ken Ginsburg, Dr. Denise Pope, and Dr. Madeline Levine (1:03:47)
- Scenario 1: To AP or not to AP? (1:04:29)
- Scenario 2: Athletic Ambition (1:13:19)
- Closing Comments by Speakers (1:21:33)
Challenging our ideas of success to help our students thrive
What's happening at colleges and universities?
Important Information About Teen Stress
Does your student need more study skills?
Resources to help you help your student plan each year's schedule:
If you're thinking about helping your student applying to college, you might be interested in these resources:
What have other schools tried?
Here's what happened at Dover-Sherborn High School in Boston.
Here's what a Seattle high school has done.
Our Survey Results
2015 Stanford Survey of Adolescent School Experiences
Recommended books
Helpful Links
- Harvard's Groundbreaking Making Caring Common Report
- Teens and younger children need PDF every day - play time, down time, and family time
- TED Talk: How to Raise Successful Kids Without Overparenting
- Want your kids to be resilient? Here's what NOT to do.
What's happening at colleges and universities?
- Yale's Most Popular Class Ever
- College Student Anxiety and Depression
- Mental Health in College: What Parents Need to Know
Important Information About Teen Stress
- Do You Know? Fascinating research findings on high school students shared by Challenge Success
- Do You Know? More research findings from Challenge Success, this time about middle school students
Does your student need more study skills?
- Amazing, useful NEW information at Healthy Chaps provided by WHS EdTechs - all about studying at Westlake
- This list has proven methods that might surprise you.
- These tips are focused on study methods for students with ADHD, but they'll work for everyone.
Resources to help you help your student plan each year's schedule:
- How much activity is too much activity?
- Teens and younger children need PDF every day - play time, down time, and family time
- The WHS Time Management form to be used when students register for classes with the WHS Course Hours sheets: #1 and #2 (to be updated for Spring 2018 registration
- What's the difference between anxiety and stress?
- Reclaiming students' health and happiness
- How much activity is too much?
- Step Away from Your Over-Scheduled High School Student: How to help teenagers learn how to juggle their competing classes and extracurriculars
- 6 Strategies for Soothing a Perfectionist
If you're thinking about helping your student applying to college, you might be interested in these resources:
- What do colleges really think about weighted GPAs?
- Harvard's Making Caring Common Report on many colleges' new priorities for admissions
- Where the Westlake Class of 2017 applied and is attending
- Where the Westlake Class of 2016 applied and is attending
- Help Students Assess Their 5Is and Assess Colleges' 4Cs - great questions to ask when thinking of where to apply
- Reflections on Rejections Read at least the introduction.
What have other schools tried?
Here's what happened at Dover-Sherborn High School in Boston.
Here's what a Seattle high school has done.
Our Survey Results
2015 Stanford Survey of Adolescent School Experiences
Recommended books
- How Children Succeed by Paul Tough
- How to Raise an Adult: Break Free from the Overparenting Trap and Prepare your Kid for Success by Julie Lythcott-Haims
- Building Resilience in Children and Teens by Kenneth R. Ginsburg
- Grit by Angela Duckworth
- Colleges that Change Lives by Loren Pope
- Where You Go is Not Who You'll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania by Frank Bruni
- The Gift of Failure by Jessica Lahey
- Social Media Wellness: Helping Tweens and Teens Thrive in an Unbalanced Digital World by Ana Homayoun
- Challenge Success recommended book list
Helpful Links