The Pressured Child: Helping Your Child Find Success in School and Life. This item is unavailable.The Pressured Child: Helping Your Child Find Success in School and Life

An instructional book helps parents and educators distinguish between needless worry and reasonable concern over their children's education and development to more effectively aid young ones in becoming successful learners in school and in life.

<b>Michael Thompson, Ph.D.</b>, is a clinical psychologist, lecturer, consultant, and former seventh-grade teacher. He conducts workshops across the United States on social cruelty, children’s friendships, and boys’ development. With Catherine O’Neill Grace and Lawrence J. Cohen, Ph.D., he co-authored <i>Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Understanding the Social Lives of Children</i> and <i>Mom, They’re Teasing Me: Helping Your Child Solve Social Problems</i>. With Dan Kindlon, Ph.D., he co-authored the <i>New York Times</i> bestseller <i>Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys</i>. He is also the author of <i>Speaking of Boys: Answers to the Most-Asked Questions About Raising Sons</i>. He lives in Arlington, Massachusetts.<br><br><b>Teresa Barker</b>, who collaborated with Thompson on <i>Raising Cain</i> and <i>Speaking of Boys</i>, is a journalist and mother of three school-age children. She lives in Wilmette, Illinois.