Bayview Glen Parent Book Club
Facilitated by the Director of Student Wellbeing, Antoinette Morgan, MA, MSW, BSW, RSW.
We aim to have three meetings for the book club this school year. We invite parents, caregivers, and supporters to attend. You can read the book in its entirety or read what you can or come even if you did not read it. Please come and join us for a spirited discussion about the topic.
2025–2026 School Year Book Selection
Fall Book Club:
Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic—and What We Can Do About It
by Jennifer Breheny Wallace
Winter Book Club:
The Crucial Years: The Essential Guide to Mental Health and Modern Puberty in Middle Childhood (Ages 6-12)
by Dr. Sheryl Gonzalez Ziegler
Spring Book Club:
The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising Connected, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescents
by Lisa Damour, PhD.
Fall Book Club
Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic—and What We Can Do About It by Jennifer Breheny Wallace
This book presents the findings of a survey of nearly 6,000 parents and explores how the pressure to succeed is ingrained in family, school, and society. Breheny Wallace contends this growing pressure on children to excel in high achievement/affluent environments, such as independent schools, and the subsequent impact on their mental health (such as anxiety, depression, and self-harm). The book delves into how a shift in society, school culture, and parenting can foster better wellbeing. Breheny Wallace introduces the concept of mattering- to help children feel they matter/ are valued for who they are, not just for what they do, and how that relates to their purpose, identity, and wellbeing.
Jennifer Breheny Wallace is a former television journalist, former producer of CBS’s 60 Minutes, author, and does national television appearances. She is a Special Wellbeing Advisor to University Health & Counseling at the University of Michigan. She’s a Fellow at The Center for Parent & Teen Communication at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Also, she serves on the Advisory Board for Making Caring Common, a Harvard Graduate School of Education project.