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JoAnn Deak, Ph.D., is an international speaker, educator, and school psychologist. She has spent more than 30 years helping children develop into confident and competent adults. She is a consultant to schools worldwide on issues of brain development, gender equity, and optimal learning environments for boys and girls.
She is the author of How Girls Thrive, Girls Will Be Girls: Raising Confident and Courageous Daughters, Your Fantastic Elastic Brain, and The Drivers Manual for Your Adolescent Brain. She has contributed towards What I Wish You Knew: Letters from Our Daughters Lives, and Expert Advice on Staying Connected, Instructors Guide to Managing Adolescents in the Field and Raising an American Girl: Parenting Advice.
Dr. JoAnn Deak's website
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birdlady33 : Where do parents draw the line when trying
to introduce/suggest new activities/interests to children? When do they reach
the point where children begin to perceive the suggestion as pressure?
JoAnn Deak : As long as it isn't pressure...
JoAnn Deak : It's all in the quantity of times you say
it and your tone of voice.
birdlady33 : So suggest it once and then let it go?
sam : But sometimes the pressure comes from school and
other parents
JoAnn Deak : It's important to 'taste' several things
when you're young
Rusty : JoAnn, should you treat a girl who is
particularly tomboyish any special way? Encourage/discourage her interests in
boyish types ofplay?
Leslie : Do you basically feel your child be the guide
for your parenting?
JoAnn Deak : but not eat everything on the smorgasbord!
Leslie : Can the parents be too soft though?
JoAnn Deak : Have you read the teeter totter theory of
parenting.
birdlady33 : or end up being doormats?
sam : no, can you tell us about it?
Leslie : What is that theory?
JoAnn Deak : Health is in the middle...
JoAnn Deak : Not too soft, not too tough
cornelius : You talk about losing your father and the
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