About this Event
Dr. Sax has authored four books to date, including Boys Adrift, Girls on the Edge, and the New York Times bestseller The Collapse of Parenting. He has appeared as a guest on the TODAY show, CNN, PBS, and Fox News multiple times as well as other national and international media outlets.
He has visited and led workshops at more than 500 schools nationally and internationally over the past 24 years, and has been published in numerous publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, American Psychologist, and the Journal of the American Medical Association among others.
Dr. Sax holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from MIT as well as his Ph.D. and M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He bases his recommendations on both his extensive clinical experience – with more than three decades of practice and 110,000 office visits – as well as his scholarly research.
On Thursday, January 23, Dr. Sax will discuss Evidence-Based Parenting:
Parenting advice too often is a mix of opinion, guesswork, and ideology. Fortunately, we now have numerous longitudinal cohort studies, in which children have been followed from infancy through adulthood. Following the same individuals for 30 years or longer, from childhood to maturity, researchers have studied what parenting methods are most likely to lead to good outcomes, to young people who are happy and fulfilled. Researchers have also studied what parenting methods are most likely to lead to bad outcomes: young people who are anxious, or depressed, or underemployed. From this research, we can distill evidence-based guidelines to improve the odds for your daughter or your son.
In this presentation, Dr. Sax will share these evidence-based strategies, and answer questions such as:
What one thing can parents do to greatly increase the odds that their child will grow up to be healthy, happy, and successful?
What is the most important virtue American parents must teach their children?
How much time spent playing video games is too much time, and how do we know?
Which video games are okay to play, and which are not, and how do we know?
The more time a child or teen spends on a social media site such as Instagram or TikTok, the more likely that child is to become anxious and/or depressed. That’s a huge effect for girls, but a much smaller effect for boys. How come?
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Carolinas Cornerstone Church, 1790 Gardendale Road, Fort Mill, United States
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