Dr. Michael Thompson

Derby Academy invites the community to attend a presentation by Michael G. Thompson, Ph.D., who will speak on his book The Pressured Child: Helping Your Child Achieve Success in School and in Life. The event will be held on Tuesday, April 21 from 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. in Larson Hall on the Derby campus in Hingham, and is free to the public. Reservations are requested at (781) 749-0746, ext. 10.

The Pressured Child was written to help parents understand the complex journey of children through school, from Kindergarten through high school. Dr. Thompson’s other well-known books include Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys, and Best Friends, Worst Enemies, about which the Publishers Weekly review declared, “Not since Dr. Spock and Penelope Leach has there been such a sensitive and practical guide to raising healthy children.”

Dr. Thompson is a consultant, author and psychologist specializing in children and families. He is the supervising psychologist for the Belmont Hill School and has worked in more than seven hundred schools across the United States, as well as in international schools in Central America, Europe, Africa and Asia.

A dedicated speaker and traveler, Michael Thompson has appeared on The Today Show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, ABC 20/20, CBS 60 Minutes, The Early Show and Good Morning America. He has been quoted in the New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, Time and U.S. News and World Report and has been a guest on NPR’s “Morning Edition” with Susan Stamberg, “Talk of the Nation” with Ray Suarez and the Diane Rhem Show. He wrote, narrated and hosted a two-hour PBS documentary entitled “Raising Cain” that was broadcast nationally in 2006.

Derby Academy is a coeducational, PreKindergarten-Grade 8 school in Hingham, MA where students discover the joy of intellectual curiosity, mastery of learning skills and service to the community through a rigorous curriculum balancing academic, arts, athletics and social growth. For more information, visit www.derbyacademy.org.