Nationality American Education Middlebury College Spouse Michael Tolkin | Role Psychologist Name Wendy Mogel Movies Adaptation | |
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Occupation Author, Clinical Psychologist, Public Speaker Books The Blessing of a Skinned Knee: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Self-reliant Children Children Susanna Tolkin, Emma Tolkin Similar People Michael Tolkin, Madeline Levine, Spike Jonze, Mel Tolkin | ||
Dr wendy mogel smart empathy raising resilient children and teenagers at young minds 2013
Wendy Mogel (born March 23, 1951) is an American psychologist and author, whose first book, “The Blessing of a Skinned Knee,” identified the problems faced by middle class children at a time of social anxiety. Her second book, “The Blessing of a B Minus,” focused on counseling parents whose children face destructive pressures as they prepare for college.
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Biography
Mogel was raised in a secular Jewish family. She studied art history at Middlebury College in Vermont, from which she graduated cum laude. She spent her summers as a counselor at a summer camp for children with emotional problems, where she met her future husband, the filmmaker and writer Michael Tolkin. After the wedding the couple moved to California.
Mogel received a master's degree from the New School in New York City and her Ph.D. at the Wright Institute of Los Angeles and continued her studies at the Department of Psychiatry at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. As a clinical psychologist, she has her own practice as a child and family therapist. She is an active author and public speaker on the topic of effective parenting. Mogel has two daughters, Susanna and Emma and lives in Los Angeles.
She has appeared on The Today Show and is consulted frequently by the media as a parenting expert.