“Do Fathers Matter?”
Presented by: Paul Raeburn
Seymour Middle School
March 31, 2016
6:30-8:30 p.m.
All parents from Ansonia, Derby, Shelton, Seymour, Oxford, and Beacon Falls are welcome to attend!
Paul Raeburn has written widely about families and parenting, most recently in Do Fathers Matter: What Science Is Telling Us About the Parent We’ve Overlooked, and in the forthcoming The Game Theorist’s Guide to Parenting: How the Science of Negotiation Can Help You Deal With the Toughest Negotiators You Will Face—Your Kids.
In his workshop, Paul will talk about some of the latest scientific findings on fathers and parenting. He will talk about how you can adapt game theory to your family and encourage your children to be more cooperative and to learn to get along. Paul will roll up his sleeves for this workshop, where he will also talk about the sometimes devastating problem of mental illness in children, something he has experienced as a parent and has written about.
Paul Raeburn is a journalist and blogger, and the author of five books, including The Game Theorist’s Guide To Parenting: How the Science of Negotiation Can Help You Deal With the Toughest Negotiators You Know--Your Kids (FSG, April 2016); and Do Fathers Matter? The new science of fatherhood, published by Scientific American/FSG in June, 2014.
Raeburn is currently an active freelance writer, blogger, radio producer, and author, writing for a wide variety of publications online and off.
He is also the associate producer of the comedian Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast, and a regular contributor to MedPage Today and Undark.org.
Raeburn’s stories have appeared in Discover, The Huffington Post, The New York Times Magazine, Scientific American, and Psychology Today, among many others. He is a past president of the National Association of Science Writers. In addition, he was a media critic for the Knight Science Journalism Tracker from 2009-2014.
He was the science editor and chief science correspondent at the Associated Press from 1981-1996, and a senior editor and writer at Business Week for seven years after that. From 2008-2009, he was the creator, executive producer and host of Innovations in Medicine and The Washington Health Report on XM satellite radio. He has been a commentator for NPR’s Morning Edition, and a regular guest covering biotechnology on CNN and the former PBS show This Week in Business.
In 2004, Raeburn published his last book, Acquainted with the Night, a memoir of raising children with depression and bipolar disorder. His earlier books include Mars, published by the National Geographic Society in 1998; and The Last Harvest, published by Simon & Schuster in 1995. He has been a journalism fellow at Stanford University and science-writer-in-residence at the University of Wisconsin and the University of California, Santa Cruz. His many journalism awards include the Science and Society award from the National Association of Science Writers; the Associated Press Managing Editors Award for Excellence; the Grady-Stack Award from the American Chemical Society; and the top reporting award from the Council on Contemporary Families.
Raeburn is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received a bachelor's degree in physics. He studied composition at the Berklee School of Music in Boston, and he plays piano and guitar. Before joining the AP, he worked for the Boston Phoenix and the Lowell (Mass.) Sun.
A native of Detroit, Raeburn now lives in New York City with his wife, the writer Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn, and their two children.
This is a press release from Seymour Public Schools.
