Best Friends/Worst Enemies: Friendship and Popularity
| Hours: | 7 - 9pm |
| Ages: | Adults |
| In/Outdoor: | Indoor |
| Cost: | $$ see below |
| Category: | Lectures/Discussions |
•What is the normal sequence of childhood friendships, from the parallel play of the two-year-old to the intimate self-disclosure of the adolescent?
•What do social relationships in school predict about happiness in adult life?
•Why do cliques form and what are the differences between boy and girl groups?
•Why are children scapegoated and how can their parents and school protect them?
Michael Thompson draws on research to highlight the differences between friendship and popularity.
He makes suggestions about the management of social problems in schools and makes the case that while all children yearn for popularity, it is friendship that helps children survive and thrive.
Dr. Thompson, co-author of NY Times bestseller, Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys and other books regarding child development, is a consultant and psychologist specializing in children and families.
He is the supervising psychologist for the Belmont Hill School and has worked in more than five hundred schools across the United States, as well as in international schools in Central America, Europe, Africa and Asia.
His latest book, Homesick and Happy: How Time Away From Parents Can Help a Child Grow, was released by Ballantine Books in May 2012.
As well as appearing on numerous news and daytime shows, he wrote, narrated and hosted a two-hour PBS documentary entitled “Raising Cain,” broadcast nationally in 2006.
| COST | ↑ top |
$15 pre-registration, $20 at the door.
| WEBSITE | ↑ top |
www.thewaldorfschool.org/pca_lecture
| LOCATION | ↑ top |
739 Massachusetts Avenue, Lexington, MA, 02420 map
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