Michael Thompson on Raising Independent Children

Michael Thompson on Raising Independent Children

Extreme parents don’t necessarily take a break over the summer. Neither does Michael Thompson. “You know you’re an extreme parent,” he tells me, “if you send your child to camp for a month and then you go on the website every day to find a smiling picture of your child and you get frantic and call the camp if you can’t find one.”

Michael Thompson is a psychologist and school consultant. He’s author of the book “Homesick and Happy: How Time Away From Parents Can Help A Child Grow.”

Some wisdom from Michael Thompson:

 

Michael Schulder: From a Researcher at ABC News; To a Writer at The MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour on PBS; To my five years as a Writer for Peter Jennings at ABC World News Tonight; And 17 years as a Senior Executive Producer at CNN.

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