About Dr. Wendy Mogel

DR. WENDY MOGEL is an internationally acclaimed clinical psychologist and parenting book author. She is frequently consulted by journalists including writers for the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Better Homes and Gardens and Parents Magazine  for her expertise on the dangers of overprotection, overindulgence and overscheduling of children. She also contributes articles to many types of professional publications and makes guest appearances on both drive time and NPR radio shows and on television programs including The Talk and The Today Show.

A graduate of Middlebury College, Dr. Mogel completed an internship and post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Psychiatry at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. She has delivered over five hundred speeches including keynotes at the annual meetings of the National Association of Independent Schools, the National Association of Principals of Schools for Girls, the Educational Records Bureau, the National Association of Episcopal Schools, the American Montessori Society and the American Camp Association.

Dr. Mogel serves on numerous boards including the Center for Early Education and the scientific advisory board of Challenge Success, a program of the Stanford University School of Education. 

Publisher’s Weekly gave her New York Times best-selling parenting book, The Blessing of a Skinned Knee, a starred review saying, “Impassioned, lyrical and eminently practical, this volume is a real treasure.”  Rabbi Harold Kushner (author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People) praises her book about raising teenagers, The Blessing of a B Minus, calling it, “Wise, witty and well-written…a treasury of common sense for anyone dealing with adolescents.”

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