Speaker Series Special Event! Po Bronson - #1 New York Times best selling author of Nurture Shock: New Thinking About Children Wednesday, April 14th from 7-9pm (doors open at 6:30pm, book signing to follow presentation) Aragon High School - Small Theater 900 Alameda de las Pulgas, San Mateo This BMC event is not to be missed!! Po Bronson is coming to speak about his thought provoking new book, Nurture Shock: New Thinking About Children. Seating is limited, so purchase your tickets online early. Tickets will NOT be available for purchase at the door.

Books, Inc., on Burlingame Avenue is offering BMC members a 15% discount on Bronson's book between now and the event. Just show your BMC newsletter and mention "BMC Book Club." Po Bronson will also have a book signing following the presentation.

See what people are saying about this book and it's author at www.nurtureshock.com and www.pobronson.com.

Editorial Review from Publisher's Weekly:
The central premise of this book by Bronson (What Should I Do with My Life?) and Merryman, a Washington Post journalist, is that many of modern society's most popular strategies for raising children are in fact backfiring because key points in the science of child development and behavior have been overlooked. Two errant assumptions are responsible for current distorted child-rearing habits, dysfunctional school programs and wrongheaded social policies: first, things work in children the same way they work in adults and, second, positive traits necessarily oppose and ward off negative behavior. These myths, and others, are addressed in 10 provocative chapters that cover such issues as the inverse power of praise (effort counts more than results); why insufficient sleep adversely affects kids' capacity to learn; why white parents don't talk about race; why kids lie; that evaluation methods for giftedness and accompanying programs don't work; why siblings really fight (to get closer). Grownups who trust in old-fashioned common-sense child-rearing - the definitely un-PC variety, with no negotiation or parent-child equality - will have less patience for this book than those who fear they lack innate parenting instincts. The chatty reportage and plentiful anecdotes belie the thorough research backing up numerous cited case studies, experts' findings and examination of successful progressive programs at work in schools. (Sept.) Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Purchase Tickets:

Tickets WILL NOT be sold at the door so you must make your purchase online through PayPal. No PayPal account is necessary.

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BMC Members, $10.00 per ticket:

Non-Members/General Public, $20.00 per ticket: