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409 reviews for:
What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen
Kate Fagan
4.2 AVERAGE
409 reviews for:
What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen
Kate Fagan
4.2 AVERAGE
Loved it
Amazing insight to how blind we can be to mental health due to social media and the pressures of being a student athlete. Madison's story is told in a very respectful and beautiful way that makes you feel like you understand what she may have been feeling even though you've never felt it yourself.
Amazing insight to how blind we can be to mental health due to social media and the pressures of being a student athlete. Madison's story is told in a very respectful and beautiful way that makes you feel like you understand what she may have been feeling even though you've never felt it yourself.
Outstanding perspective from an athlete that had been in the same situation as Maddy. Good insight into the pressure we are putting on our youth and also on the dangers that social media is creating with them as well. A must read for any parent of a student athlete AND for college coaches recruiting them.
"... We often consciously capture an image, the content of which is often the most appealing interpretation of the moment. Then we make an intellectual choice about if, and how, to share that image, a decision often but not always influenced by the moral obligation. We feel to contribute positively to society. After we share the image, we monitor the feedback on the post, which will influence our understanding of what does and doesn't resonate, and what we might share next time. Then the cycle starts again." -pg 250
This book wasn't what I had pegged it to be but boy did it make me pause and ponder so many things in my own life.
This book wasn't what I had pegged it to be but boy did it make me pause and ponder so many things in my own life.
As I prepare to send my oldest daughter to college this year, this book terrified me. Kids today have so much stress from school, sports, and especially social media.
“One study found that an average age high school student today likely deals with as much anxiety as did a psychiatric patient in the 1950s.”
This story of the suicide of athlete Madison Holleran, who appeared to have everything going for her, is a wake up call. Kids are not always showing their struggles and instead opting to post glowing lives on social media. This should be required reading for administrators, teachers and coaches. We owe it to our kids to make life fun, worthwhile and meaningful-not just a race to unobtainable perfection.
“One study found that an average age high school student today likely deals with as much anxiety as did a psychiatric patient in the 1950s.”
This story of the suicide of athlete Madison Holleran, who appeared to have everything going for her, is a wake up call. Kids are not always showing their struggles and instead opting to post glowing lives on social media. This should be required reading for administrators, teachers and coaches. We owe it to our kids to make life fun, worthwhile and meaningful-not just a race to unobtainable perfection.
I had to put this book down several times while reading it. It is very close to home for me, and I see my daughter too closely in some of the descriptors. Kate Fagan has done a wonderful job with a very very difficult subject. Looking at life through the many filters of social media and the intense pressures facing children today, she paints a portrait of an “every” girl from a loving involved family with demons that she can’t seem to run away from.
The most important book I have read in a long time. As a teacher of 10 year olds and also a former collegiate division 1 runner, this book just frightens me. All parents should read this book!
This is really sad but a must read for high school teachers, coaches and counselors as well as the parents of teenagers. Probably college coaches and counselors too. Maddy’s story can help us prevent this in the future. Heartbreaking but so well-written.
An important book to help understand the pressure student athletes experience, but some of Maddie’s private messages made me uncomfortable to read. I kept wondering how she would have felt to know her private messages would someday be published?
Excellent, important book. I will be requiring it in my first-year seminar next year.
Tough book…important message! I would strongly suggest any parent of a highschooler read this book before they might head off to college.