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The Pressured Child : Freeing Our Kids From Performance Overdrive and Helping Them Find Success in School and Life by MICHAEL THOMPSON,PH.D.WITH TERESA BARKER is a education title available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Pressured Child : Freeing Our Kids From Performance Overdrive and Helping Them Find Success in School and Life about?
The push for students to excel at school and get into the best colleges has never been more intense. In this invaluable new book, the bestselling co-author of Raising Cain addresses America's performance-driven obsession with the accomplishments of its kids–and provides a deeply humane response.“How was school?” These three words contain a world of desire on the part of parents to know what their children are learning and experiencing in school each day. Children may not divulge much, but psychologist Michael Thompson suggests that the answers are there if we know how to read the clues and–equally important–if we remember our own school days.School, Thompson reminds us, occupies more waking hours than kids spend at home; and school is full not just of studies but of human emotion–excitement, fear, envy, love, anger, sexuality, boredom, competitiveness. Through richly detailed interviews, case histories, and student e-mail journals, including those of his own children, Thompson illuminates the deeper psychological journey that school demands, a journey that all children must take in order to grow and develop, whether they are academic aces or borderline dropouts. Most of us remember
Who reads The Pressured Child : Freeing Our Kids From Performance Overdrive and Helping Them Find Success in School and Life?
It is typically read by teachers and faculty preparing courses and curriculum.
Common subject areas: education, pedagogy.
- Author
- MICHAEL THOMPSON,PH.D.WITH TERESA BARKER
- Publisher
- New York : Ballantine Books
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780345450128
- Category
- education
- Subjects
- Family & Relationships, Fiction, Psychology
- Rating
- 3.85 / 5 (56 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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