35th Anniversary Edition of The Winning FamilyBig news!We’re launching an anniversary version of The Winning Family this fall, and we’re raising awareness and excitement with a Kickstarter campaign. You can pre-order our book and bundles of books from Uplift Press, SAVE THE DATE(s): August 31, 2022 – Pub date! Paperbacks and ebooks on super sale – stock up for all the parents on your list! September 10, 2022 – Launch Party in Oakland! Pre-order today!The Winning Family: Where No One
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Kristen (Baumgardner) Caven, this year’s CWC Writer in Residence at Joaquin Miller Park, educates, entertains, and inspires her audiences with an extraordinary offering of books, presentations, performances, and events. The author of seven books, several plays, and an award winning cartoon collection, she applies positive psychology to her work strengthening communities through uplifting artistic expressions.
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Mills is Dead. Long Live Mills.
In spite of the uplifting statements of Northeastern University in Oakland about gender and racial equality, they need to be accountable for their actions in destroying a women’s college with a legacy of serving minorities. Watch The Unmaking of Mills College community Zoom meeting I hosted here. Read the lies here. Listen to Mills Voices here. Get involved with Save Mills, Investigate Mills, All4Mills. Here’s a radio interview I did (with Covid!)
Join me for more conversations around Mills, women’s colleges, women’s education, women’s rights on Clubhouse!
Walkin’ with Joaquin
Join me on the third Wednesday of every month in Joaquin Miller Park for Write in the Hights, a writing retreat in the Oakland Hills with the California Writers Club. I’m working on a book about Joaquin Miller and blogging about the history and happenings in this local happy place.
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#MillsMade
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“Bernice Bobs Her Head”
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His Royal Flocculence
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I’m working on the 4th edition of The Winning Family with my mom, the famous Dr. Louise Hart. The last time we approached a publisher to bring it back into print, we ended up writing The Bullying Antidote! The message is the same: raising children with positive parenting (we invented that term) is the best prevention for all types of social harm.
“Toxic Speech”excerpt from “Cutural Barriers to Self-Esteem” in The Winning Family
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The book will be released next April. Subscribe to blog, Museletter, or Uplift Press for announcements.