Campbell Hall | Parent Education

September 24, 2019

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Fatherhood Dialogue

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DATE: September 24, 2019
TIME: 7:00 pm
LOCATION: Mildred E. Hawks Building (MEH)
SPEAKER: Dr. Gary Groch

During this fun and interactive evening among fathers of students in elementary, middle and high schools, psychologist Dr. Gary Groch will lead an important conversation about the joys and challenges of fatherhood. Dr. Groch is a psychologist with a thriving practice in the San Fernando Valley and has helped thousands of children and families over the course of his 4 decades-long career. He has also served as the consulting psychologist for Campbell Hall since 1991. Join us for good food, great beer, and the beginning of lasting friendships.

October 1, 2019

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Sex, Teens & Everything in Between: The New and Necessary Conversations Today’s Teenagers Need to Have About Consent, Sexual Harassment, Healthy Relationships, Love, and More
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DATE: October 1, 2019
TIME: 7:00 pm
LOCATION: Lower Gym
SPEAKER: Shafia Zaloom

Shafia Zaloom is a health educator and consultant whose work centers on human development, community building, ethics, and social justice. In her 25-year career, Shafia has worked with thousands of children and their families and developed curricula and trainings for schools across the country. Many American teens are steeped in a culture that sends unsettling messages about sex, through everything from politics to music to the normalization of pornography. In today’s environment, it’s crucial that teens be able to ask hard questions about how to take care of themselves, make decisions that reflect their values, and stay safe. In this presentation, Shafia will guide us to have these “new and necessary” conversations with our teens, including:
- How to get and give consent
- What is means to have “good” sex
- How to stay safe in difficult situations
- The legal consequences of sexual harassment and assault

October 16, 2019

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Permission to Feel: Unlocking the Power of Emotions to Help our Kids, Ourselves, and Our Society Thrive
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DATE: October 16, 2019
TIME: 7:00 pm
LOCATION: Oakwood School
SPEAKER: Marc Brackett

This event is co-sponsored by Campbell Hall + Oakwood School.

Marc Brackett is a professor at Yale University’s Child Study Center and founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. In his 25 years as an emotion scientist, he has developed a remarkably effective plan to improve the lives of children and adults – a blueprint for understanding our emotions and using them wisely so that they help, rather than hinder, our success and well-being. Marc has led large research teams and raised tens of millions of dollars to investigate the roots of emotional well-being. His resulting prescription for healthy children (and their parents, teachers, and schools) is a system called RULER, a high-impact and fast-effect approach to understanding and mastering emotions that has been proven to reduce stress and burnout, improve school climate, and enhance academic achievement. In this presentation, Marc will share the strategies and skills his vast research has revealed lead to a healthier, more fulfilling life.

November 12, 2019

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Real American: How I Learned to Love My Black and Biracial Self in a Country Where Black Lives Weren’t Meant to Matter
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DATE: November 12, 2019
TIME: 7:00 pm
LOCATION: Lower Gym
SPEAKER: Julie Lythcott-Haims

Julie will speak to our community about the experiences she details in her critically acclaimed memoir Real American about her personal battle with the low self-esteem that American racism routinely inflicts on people of color. The child of an African-American father and a white British mother, Julie shows how microaggressions in addition to blunt-force insults can puncture a person’s inner life with a thousand sharp cuts. Real American expresses also, through Julie’s path to self-acceptance, the healing power of community in overcoming the hurtful isolation of being incessantly considered “the other.”

Former corporate lawyer and Stanford University Dean, Julie Lythcott-Haims is the author of the New York Times best-selling book How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success (2015) and Real American: A Memoir (2017). Her work has appeared throughout the media including in the New York Times, The Atlantic, Parents, the PBS News Hour, and numerous podcasts and radio shows. She is deeply interested in what prevents people from living meaningful, fulfilling lives.

February 18, 2020

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The Opposite of Spoiled: Raising Kids Who Are Grounded, Generous, and Smart About Money
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DATE: February 18, 2020
TIME: 7:00 pm
LOCATION: Lower Gym
SPEAKER: Ron Lieber

New York Times “Your Money” columnist Ron Lieber will speak to our community about why, when and how to talk to kids about money. He will explain how having these conversations openly can help parents raise modest, patient, grounded young adults who are financially wise beyond their years. Children are hyper-aware of money, and they have scores of questions about its nuances. But when parents shy away from the topic, they lose a tremendous opportunity—not just to model the basic financial behaviors that are increasingly important for young adults but also to imprint lessons about what the family truly values. You will leave this talk with a blueprint for the best ways to handle the basics: the tooth fairy, allowance, chores, charity, saving, birthdays, holidays, cell phones, checking accounts, clothing, cars, part-time jobs, and college tuition, as well as an understanding of the traits and virtues that embody the “opposite of spoiled.”

March 10, 2020

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Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity
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DATE: March 10, 2020
TIME: 7:00 pm
LOCATION: Lower Gym
SPEAKER: Peggy Orenstein

This event is co-sponsored by Campbell Hall + Oakwood School.

Today’s young men are subject to the same cultural forces as their female peers. They are steeped in the distorted media images and binary stereotypes of female sexiness and toxic masculinity which shape how they, too, navigate sexual and emotional relationships. In Boys & Sex, Orenstein uses the same fascinating mix of anecdote and research as her previous bestseller Girls & Sex to reveal how young men understand and negotiate the new rules of physical and emotional intimacy. Drawing on comprehensive interviews with young men, psychologists, academics, and experts in the field, Orenstein takes an unprecedented look at the myriad factors that are shaping boys’ ideas of sex, girls, and masculinity including:
- locker room talk
- how the word “hilarious” robs boys of empathy
- pornography as the new sex education
- hookup culture and consent
- Bro culture and #metoo
- excessive drinking and frat parties
- boys’ experience as victims and perpetrators of sexual violence
By exploring the complexity of young men’s attitudes, beliefs, and experiences, Orenstein unravels the hidden truths, hard lessons, and important realities of boys’ sex lives today. The result is a provocative and paradigm-shifting presentation that offers a much-needed vision of how boys can truly move forward as better men.

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Fatherhood Dialogue

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October 1, 2019

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Sex, Teens & Everything in Between: The New and Necessary Conversations Today’s Teenagers Need to Have About Consent, Sexual Harassment, Healthy Relationships, Love, and More

October 16, 2019

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Permission to Feel: Unlocking the Power of Emotions to Help our Kids, Ourselves, and Our Society Thrive

November 12, 2019

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Real American: How I Learned to Love My Black and Biracial Self in a Country Where Black Lives Weren’t Meant to Matter

February 18, 2020

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The Opposite of Spoiled: Raising Kids Who Are Grounded, Generous, and Smart About Money

March 10, 2020

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Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity