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Dr. Shimi Kang - Raising Healthy, Happy, and Motivated Kids
Tuesday, September 30, 7:00 pm
Senior School Auditorium
We are the most informed generation of parents that have ever walked the planet, yet we are raising children with rising rates of stress, obesity, diabetes, and mental illness. Medical history was recently made when being from a higher socioeconomic class was cited as a risk factor for adolescent anxiety, depression, and substance use. Dr. Shimi Kang has witnessed firsthand how today’s trend of over-scheduling and overprotecting are seriously underpreparing our children for real life and standing in the way of their self-motivation.
Senior School Auditorium
We are the most informed generation of parents that have ever walked the planet, yet we are raising children with rising rates of stress, obesity, diabetes, and mental illness. Medical history was recently made when being from a higher socioeconomic class was cited as a risk factor for adolescent anxiety, depression, and substance use. Dr. Shimi Kang has witnessed firsthand how today’s trend of over-scheduling and overprotecting are seriously underpreparing our children for real life and standing in the way of their self-motivation.
Shimi will provide a compelling guide to the art and science of inspiring children to develop their own internal drive and a lifelong love of learning. Drawing on the latest neuroscience and behavioral research, Shimi proposes a powerful new parenting metaphor: the intelligent, joyful, and highly social dolphin. Dolphins are not authoritarian tiger parents who push and hover, nor are they permissive jellyfish parents. Dolphin parents use balance to guide their children towards self-motivation.
Biography: Dr. Shimi Kang
Dr. Shimi Kang is an award winning, Harvard-trained doctor, bestselling author, and researcher/lecturer on human motivation. She is the Medical Director for Child and Youth Mental Health for Vancouver community, a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia and the founder of the Provincial Youth Concurrent (mental health and addiction) Disorders Program at BC Children’s Hospital.
Shimi is the author of the number one Canadian bestseller The Dolphin Way: A Parent’s Guide to Raising Healthy, Happy, and Motivated Kids Without Turning Into A Tiger (Penguin Books 2014). Her articles have appeared on the Huffington Post, Psychology Today and TIME Magazine. In 2012, Dr. Kang received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for her years of outstanding community service. She is the proud mother of three awesome children.
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