The School of Life Presents The Good Enough Parent

1133 Broadway,New York NY 10010

19 April, 2022

Description

The School of Life presents THE GOOD ENOUGH PARENT: How to Raise Contented, Interesting, and Resilient Children. Join us to celebrate the US launch of The Good Enough Parent by The School of Life. We invite you to a discussion between Jake Kahana, a School of Life Faculty member and Sarah Peck, founder and executive director of Start Up Parent. They’ll be exploring some of the key ideas raised in the book, including why all children must be unhappy sometimes and how we can best manage the long transition from infancy to adulthood. The discussion will be followed by a Q&A, where attendees will have a chance to contribute to the conversation and voice their own perspectives on the ideas raised, and a meet and greet with Jake Kahanna and Sarah Peck. It promises to be an insightful and consoling evening exploring the pleasures and pains of parenting. Guests over the age of five must wear masks and show proof of vaccination (either a vaccine card or an Excelsior Pass). Please preorder the book here. A parenting guide providing compassionate instruction and insight into raising a resilient, well-balanced child. Bringing up a child to be an authentic and mentally robust adult is one of life's great challenges. It is also, fortunately, not a matter of luck. The Good Enough Parent is a compendium of life lessons, including how to say 'no' to a child you adore, how to look beneath the surface of 'bad' behavior to work out what might really be going on, how to encourage a child to be genuinely kind, and how to handle the moods and gloom of adolescence. Most importantly, this is a book that knows that perfection is not required—and indeed the tiger mom approach is flawed, because a key job of any parent is to induct a child gently into the imperfect nature of everything. Written in a tone that is encouraging, wry, and soaked in years of experience, The Good Enough Parent is an intelligent guide to raising a child who will one day look back on their childhood with just the right mixture of gratitude, humor, and love. Jake Kahana is a designer and entrepreneur based in the New York City Area. He is a co-founder of Caveday, a company founded to maximize productivity for individuals and corporations through facilitated deep focus sessions and deep work training. Their global community has led over 50,000 hours of deep work “in The Cave.” He's been a US faculty member with The School of Life since early 2018. Currently, Jake is working on The Creative Department, a management training curriculum for creative leaders. (@jakekahana) Sarah K. Peck is an author, startup advisor, and yoga teacher based in New York City. She’s the founder and CEO of Startup Parent, a company creating conversations, community, and change in the lives of working parents and women in leadership. She’s a registered yoga teacher (RYT-200), a 20-time All-American swimmer, and an entrepreneur. Her writing and work has been featured in more than 70 different blogs and publications, and she’s spoken at Harvard, Penn, Berkeley, the University of Virginia, and at conferences around the globe. She’s currently writing a memoir of working in the tech startup world while pregnant with her first kid. (@startup_parent)