Author Jessica Lahey Returns to Girls That Create with Erin Prather Stafford

Hard-hitting yet warm and wise, The Gift of Failure is essential reading for parents, educators, and psychologists nationwide who want to help children succeed.

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Author Jessica Lahey Returns to Girls That Create with Erin Prather Stafford

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Join Erin Prather Stafford and her return guest, Jessica Lahey, for a talk about Lahey’s New York Times bestselling book The Gift of Failure: How The Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed. Lahey is a teacher, speaker and mom who has written about education, parenting, and child welfare for The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and her biweekly column “The Parent Teacher Conference” ran for three years at The New York Times.

She is also the author of The Addiction Inoculation: Raising Healthy Kids in a Culture of Dependence. For over twenty years, Lahey taught every grade from sixth to twelfth in both public and private schools and spent five years teaching in a drug and alcohol rehab for adolescents in Vermont.

She co-hosts the #AmWriting podcast from her empty nest in Vermont.

Listen to our chat from Season One, where we discuss The Addiction Inoculation and the importance of understanding substance abuse and how to prevent it in children and adolescents.

Find out more about Lahey and her work at jessicalahey.com. You can also follow Lahey on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube.

Host Erin Prather Stafford launched the Girls That Create website and podcast to support the parents and caregivers of creative girls while encouraging greater female representation across the arts. For more information, go to girlsthatcreate.com and follow and connect on Instagram, Pinterest, and YouTube. You can also sign up for the Girls That Create newsletter.

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