Saturday, November 23, 2024
7:00 PM
Tim Carney
Author of Family Unfriendly, AEI Senior Fellow, Columnist at Washington Examiner
Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Makes Parenting Harder Than It Needs to Be, and What We Can Do About It
About the Speaker
Timothy P. Carney is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he works on civil society, family, localism, religion in America, economic competition, and electoral politics. He is concurrently a senior columnist at the Washington Examiner. His most recent book, Family Unfriendly, explores the ways American parenting has become harder than it needs to be, and how we can fix it. In addition to writing three other books, Mr. Carney has been published widely, including in the Atlantic, National Review, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. His television appearances include CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and PBS NewsHour.
The Topic
Our culture tells parents there's one best way to raise kids: enroll them in a dozen activities, protect them from trauma, and get them into the most expensive college you can. If you can't do that, don't bother.
How is that going? Record rates of anxiety, depression, medication, debts, loneliness and more.
Bestselling author Tim Carney has a different prescription. Have more kids, have more fun, let your kids wander off, and give them deeper sources of meaning than material success.
This is an old-fashioned view, but every day the evidence validates it. Drawing on rigorous research—both as a reporter and as a dad of six—Carney will demonstrate why modern parenting is so misguided, and what we can do about it.
The Evening
Northridge hosts ParentU events for parents to enjoy a night out and consider important ideas about marriage and parenting.
The talks include time for Q&A
Wine and Cheese eception follows the presentation
Childcare is Available for $20, regardless of number of children. Sign up for child-care when registering for the event.
Cost:
- $25 Admit One
- $35 Admit Couple
- $30 Admit Northridge / Willows / Embers couple
- $20 Childcare (for one or more children)
Time:
Doors open: 6:30pm
Event starts: 7:00pm
Reception follows