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| Our children live in a high-stakes, high-pressure world
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The Challenge Success program addresses the concern that children and adolescents often compromise their mental and physical health, integrity, and engagement in learning as they contend with performance pressure in and out of school. We challenge the conventional, high-pressure, and narrow path to success and offer practical alternatives to pursue a broader definition of success. |
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| | | | Parental Anxiety - a great interview of Madeline Levine on NBC Bay Area
more... | | | | | | | Denise Pope is interviewed for the Huffington Post.
more... | | | | | | | Denise Pope "stole the show", Jonathan Martin of Connected Principals
more... | | | | | | | Amy Chua's new book, "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother," is raising a lot of debate. Our Madeline Levine has a response worth noting.
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| Highlights from our YouTube Video Channel
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Ken Ginsburg, M.D., M.S. Ed, a good friend of Challenge Success and an Advisory Board member, has just published "Letting Go with Love and Confidence." Ken is a pediatrician specializing in adolescent medicine at The Children's Hospital in Philadelphia and is a nationally known expert on building resilience in children and teens. Regularly voted a "Top Doc" by Philadelphia magazine, he speaks across the country and we are delighted that he will be joining us as our keynote speaker at our 2011 fall conference at Stanford.
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Coming July 12
Pre-Order Available
A sensible and considerate resource to navigating your teen to adulthood, making the transformation, and transforming a traditional time of strife into an opportunity for positive growth for both the parent and child. more... |
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Available Now
Second Edition
Families, schools, and communities can prepare children and teens to THRIVE through both good and challenging times. Building Resilience in Children and Teens offers strategies to help kids from 18 months to 18 years build seven crucial “Cs” — competence, confidence, connection, character, contribution, coping, and control — so they can excel in life and bounce back from challenges. more... |
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To learn more about Ken Ginsburg: http://www.fosteringresilience.com/ |
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Dr. Wendy Mogel, a good friend of Challenge Success and a Research and Policy Advisory Board member, has a new book out, The Blessing of a B Minus. Wendy is an internationally known clinical psychologist, author of the New York Times bestselling parenting book, The Blessing of a Skinned Knee and was the Keynote speaker at our 2010 fall conference at Stanford.
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Available Now
Social-clinical psychologist Wendy Mogel concentrates on the hidden blessings of raising teenagers in this engaging follow-up to The Blessing of a Skinned Knee. Intermingling wisdom and guidelines from Judaism and adolescent psychology, Mogel compares the teen years to the journey from Egypt to the Promised Land. As kids wander in the "desert" of adolescence, she advises parents to offer counsel and guidance, demonstrate empathy without entanglement, and resist the urge to intervene or rescue. more... |
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| We need a broader vision of success
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 Our current educational system and parenting practices are out of alignment with the well-documented needs of children. As a result, we are seeing rising and debilitating levels of emotional problems and educational distress. Experts are documenting high levels of anxiety disorders, depression, stress, disengagement from learning, cheating, and boredom. This is as true for the student struggling to pass the high school exit exam, as it is for the student who is overloaded with AP courses and extracurricular activities.
Our culture’s current configuration of success is too narrow – focused primarily on a limited number of academic skills. In the world our students are about to enter, success comes in many forms. Without an appropriately broad notion of success, many students are working to the point of exhaustion, while many more are simply disengaging from a system that doesn’t address the diversity of skills, interests, and capacities that different children have. The tragedy is that many of these tolls on children are preventable. The Challenge Success vision is to develop a plan to prevent these tolls and allow all youth to thrive.
We work with schools, parents and youth to develop and implement action plans to improve student well-being and engagement with learning.
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