Workshops


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For Parents

  • Evidence-Based Parenting: strategies to improve the odds for your daughter or your son
  • Beyond Resilience: Why so many American kids today are so FRAGILE
  • Why Gender Matters – For Parents: What parents need to know about hardwired differences between girls and boys
  • TikTok Ate My Daughter, and My Son Won’t Stop Playing Video Games: What parents need to know about the emerging worlds of social media and video games
  • Boys Adrift: The factors driving the growing epidemic of unmotivated boys and underachieving young men; and how you can improve the odds for your son
  • Girls on the Edge: Why so many girls are now anxious and/or depressed; and how you can improve the odds for your daughter
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For Teachers and Administrators

  • Why Gender Matters: what teachers need to know about the emerging science of male/female differences
  • Dealing with Difficult Parents: strategies that actually work 
  • The Four Bullies: Strategies to eliminate bullying on- and off-campus
  • What Is Kindergarten For? Gender-aware best practices in the early years
  • Jane Eyre for Boys: Gender-specific strategies to break down gender stereotypes and broaden educational horizons
  • Physics and Computer Science for Girls: Gender-specific strategies to break down gender stereotypes and broaden educational horizons
  • What makes a great teacher – of girls; of boys?
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For Social Workers and Psychologists

  • Girls on the Edge – of a razor blade: Why are so many girls cutting themselves?
  • The medicalization of misbehavior: What social workers and psychologists need to know
  • Evaluation of the child who is not paying attention
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Workshops for other hosts

For Juvenile Justice Professionals:

  • Sex differences in the propensity to delinquent behaviors
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For Communities of Faith

  • Why the Holocaust Still Matters
  • The Great Disappointment: when dreams don’t come true
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Consulting

If you work with a school, college, rec center, summer camp, juvenile justice facility, church or synagogue or mosque, or other setting for children and/or teenagers, and you have an issue or a concern or an upcoming program, please contact Dr. Sax.

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