School Lecture: Helping Children Become Resilient

The Andover Public Schools are bringing in nationally-renowned speaker Maria Trozzi to adddress the challenge in helping children cope with issues in 2012.

Trozzi is an expert in early childhood development as well as helping children adjust following a crisis. This event is called "Helping our Children Develop Resilience as They Face a Complicated World."

She will be speaking at the auditorium Monday night from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

With modern technology and social norms making the world an ever more complicated place, the schools want to give parents the tools to help their child cope with tragedy and grow to be a capable and confident adult. 

Trozzi will address topics such as (provided by aps1.net):

• Creating the mix to produce an outstanding person: the surprising research
• Dealing with life’s disappointments: when our children hurt, what to say and not to say
• To push or not to push. The race to get ahead and what it means to your child
• Too many choices: How affluence can complicate parenting decision-making
• Self-efficacy: what it is, why it’s important; what to do about it
• How to ‘not hover’; moving towards scaffolding your children as they problem solve