Princeton NJ Events

Artist Reception, Princeton Day School's Anne Reid '72 Gallery

Wednesday April 9, 2025
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Anne Reid '72 Gallery at Princeton Day School presents Roots of Excellence: 125 Years of Miss Fine's School and 100 Years of Princeton Country Day, a commemorative exhibition celebrating Miss Fine's School and Princeton Country Day School's rich histories and enduring legacies. The new exhibit opens on April 1, 2025, with a planned public reception at Princeton Day School's Anne Reid '72 Gallery on Wednesday, April 9, from 3-5 p.m.

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Raising a Self-Driven Child: A Talk with the Authors

Wednesday April 9, 2025
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Authors William Stixrud and Ned Johnson have watched firsthand as the crises around education and children's mental health have converged in the post-pandemic years. Their book The Self-Driven Child (2019) was ahead of the curve in addressing the way these forces converge in adolescents at pivotal moments as children develop their sense of autonomy, ambition, self-discipline, and learning style.

Using material from their work with parents and children as a clinical psychologist and tutor and pulling essential principles from the science in The Self-Driven Child, their new book The Seven Principles for Raising a Self-Driven Child: A Workbook (2025) guides parents to develop the practice of being a nonanxious presence in children's lives. In this talk they will share prompts to help parents recognize and rewire their instinctual response?s to stressful situations, exercises to give them the language to communicate clearly and calmly, and lists to keep anxiety responses in check and big-picture goals in view. Q&A will follow.

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