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<p align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=4 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>February 4, 2010
---- 7 pm CCHS Auditorium </span></font></b></p>
<p align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=6 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:24.0pt'>Michael G. Thompson, Ph.D.</span></font></p>
<p align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=4 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>"The Pressured
Child: Helping Your Child Find Success in School and Life" </span></font></b></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Michael
Thompson is a compelling speaker, consultant, author and psychologist
specializing in children and families. He is clinical consultant to The Belmont
Hill School and has worked in more than five hundred schools across the US,
Central America, Europe and Asia. He co-authored the New York Times
best-selling book, <u>Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys</u>.
He is the author of <u>Speaking of Boys: Answers to the Most-Asked Questions
About Raising Sons</u>, and co-author of <u>Best Friends/Worst Enemies:
Understanding the Social Worlds of Children</u> and <u>Mom, They're Teasing Me:
Helping Your Child Solve Social Problems</u>. A dedicated speaker, Michael
Thompson has appeared on The Today Show, Oprah Winfrey, ABC 20/20, CBS 60
Minutes, The Early Show and Good Morning America.</span></font></p>
<p><u><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>The
Pressured Child: Helping Your Child Achieve Success in School and in Life </span></font></u><font
size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>was written to help parents understand
the complex journey of children through school. “<b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>The Pressured Child" is, in fact, a presentation
for "pressured parents" who have forgotten what school is actually
like. </span></b>In the presentation, Dr. Thompson describes the
psychological journey that children experience during their thirteen years in
school.<b><span style='font-weight:bold'> </span></b>He reminds parents that
children are almost never judging themselves by grades: they are always
monitoring their own development and constantly searching for three things:
connection, recognition and a sense of power. Every child is constantly
developing strategies for coping with the pressures that he or she feels. </span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>In this
talk, he shares stories from the trenches, taking parents into the school day
experience of children, illuminating how they manage their school careers and
how the best educators and wisest parents can support them along the way. </span></font></p>
<p align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=4 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";font-weight:bold'>Sponsored
by the CCHS Parents Association </span></font></b></p>
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