How to raise smart kids in the New Millennium. PEP Talks: Lisa Bloom Type: Community The 2013 PEP Talks Series brings an exciting mix of world-class speakers to Vancouver. Lisa Bloom: How to raise smart kids in the New Millennium. More details Date and time June 12 2013, 7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Add to my calendar Location Vancouver Playhouse, 601 Hamilton Street at Dunsmuir Vancouver Contact 604.684.8727 How to raise smart kids in the New Millennium. For women and girls today, it's the best of times, it's the worst of times. While girls shine in many areas (such as outperforming boys at every level of education, preschool through grad school — go team!); they have also lost focus and even regressed in some frightening ways. Twenty-five percent of young American women would rather win America's Next Top Model than the Nobel Peace Prize. Twenty-three percent would rather lose their ability to read than their figures. Nearly all the college women I interviewed could name more Kardashians than wars we're in. Today, we spend more time and money on cosmetics and plastic surgery than any other women in the world, and more than any other women in human history. For boys, Bloom speaks about the negative cultural influences on our boys: schools that are failing them, a jobless economy that prevents many from launching into adulthood, "thug culture" that teaches them that manhood is defined by emotional numbness, violence, and drug use. But for parents, there is good news: research-tested, parent-approved solutions to get our boys' values straight, get them reading, improve their school's performance, and send them into a successful adulthood. In May 2011 Bloom's book Think: Straight Talk for Women to Stay Smart in a Dumbed-Down World was published by Vanguard Press and in May of 2012, Bloom published Swagger: 10 Urgent Rules for Raising Boys in an Era of Failing Schools, Mass Joblessness, and Thug Culture. Presented by the Vancouver International Children's Festival..
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