Ready or Not, Madeline Levine
Ready or Not, Madeline Levine
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Ready or Not
Preparing Our Kids to Thrive in an Uncertain and Rapidly Changing World

Author: Madeline Levine

Narrator: Abby Craden

Unabridged: 7 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 02/11/2020


Synopsis

The New York Times bestselling author of The Price of Privilege and Teach Your Children Well explores how today’s parenting techniques and our myopic educational system are failing to prepare children for their certain-to-be-uncertain future—and how we can reverse course to ensure their lasting adaptability, resilience, health and happiness.In The Price of Privilege, respected clinician, Madeline Levine was the first to correctly identify the deficits created by parents giving kids of privilege too much of the wrong things and not enough of the right things. Continuing to address the mistaken notions about what children need to thrive in Teach Your Children Well, Levine tore down the myth that good grades, high test scores, and college acceptances should define the parenting endgame. In Ready or Not, she continues the discussion, showing how these same parenting practices, combined with a desperate need to shelter children from discomfort and anxiety, are setting future generations up to fail spectacularly.Increasingly, the world we know has become disturbing, unfamiliar, and even threatening. In the wake of uncertainty and rapid change, adults are doubling-down on the pressure-filled parenting style that pushes children to excel. Yet these daunting expectations, combined with the stress parents feel and unwittingly project onto their children, are leading to a generation of young people who are overwhelmed, exhausted, distressed—and unprepared for the future that awaits them. While these damaging effects are known, the world into which these children are coming of age is not. And continuing to focus primarily on grades and performance are leaving kids more ill-prepared than ever to navigate the challenges to come.But there is hope. Using the latest developments in neuroscience and epigenetics (the intersection of genetics and environment), as well as extensive research gleaned from captains of industry, entrepreneurs, military leaders, scientists, academics, and futurists, Levine identifies the skills that children need to succeed in a tumultuous future: adaptability, mental agility, curiosity, collaboration, tolerance for failure, resilience, and optimism. Most important, Levine offers day-to-day solutions parents can use to raise kids who are prepared, enthusiastic, and ready to face an unknown future with confidence and optimism.

About Madeline Levine

Madeline Levine, PhD, is a psychologist, consultant, and educator; the author of the New York Times bestsellers Teach Your Children Well and The Price of Privilege; and a cofounder of Challenge Success, a project of the Stanford School of Education that addresses education reform, student well-being, and parent education. She is also a consultant to BDT & Company, a merchant bank that advises and invests in founder- and family-led companies. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and is the proud mother of three adult sons and a newly minted granddaughter.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mary

Levine reviews adolescent brain science, then goes over “accumulated disability: impairment of life skills and the inability to cope, adapt and function.”; “learned helplessness: the belief that nothing you do can impact your life.”; and “delayed adolescence” before providing guidance on preventing......more

Goodreads review by Jeff

Nice premise, the world is likely going to be changing dramatically in the next few years and it would probably be better to prepare your kids in various “soft skills” (a term considered derisive by the author) and not just funnel your child into the adolescent rat race of grades, extra-curriculars,......more

Goodreads review by Andrea

Even though I don't identify with the intensity of the parents, Dr. Levine describes in the book; it was a good reminder of why letting kids accomplish things on their own is important for their self-esteem and development. She talks about how our own uncertainty in our kid's future can cause us to......more