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An expert panel discusses the risks and benefits of a growing movement toward slowing down childhood and relaxing structure. The panel will answer the question: can too much or too little structure be bad for children? Guests include Carl Honore, author of In Praise of Slow and Maureen Neihart, author of Peak Performance for Smart Kids.

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Maureen Neihart, Psy.D. is licensed in the U.S. as a clinical child psychologist. Early in her career she worked as a secondary science teacher, an elementary and middle school counselor and a coordinator of gifted programs. She is co-editor of the text, The Social and Emotional Development of Gifted Children: What do we Know? and a former member of the board of directors of the National Association for Gifted Children. Dr. Neihart serves on the editorial boards of Gifted Child Quarterly, Roeper Review, Gifted Education Communicator, and Journal of Secondary Gifted Education. She is a member of Divisions 53 and 37 of the American Psychological Association. She has given nearly three hundred lectures and workshops worldwide.