Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Understanding the Social Lives of Children - Hardcover

Thompson, Michael; Grace, Catherine O'Neill; Cohen, Lawrence J., Ph.D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0345438094 ISBN 13: 9780345438096

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 2001

Synopsis

Details the complex nature of children's friendships by providing thought-provoking discussions and heartwarming stories on the difference between friendship and popularity, how boys and girls deal with intimacy and commitments, and more.

About this title

About the Author

Michael Thompson, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist, lecturer, consultant and former seventh grade teacher. He conducts workshops on the development of boys and social cruelty in childhood for both public and private schools across the United States. He is the author of Speaking of Boys and coauthor, with Dan Kindlon, Ph.D., of The New York Times bestseller Raising Cain. The father of a daughter and a son, he and his wife observe children’s friendships from their home in Arlington, Massachusetts.

Catherine O’Neill Grace, a writer and editor, is a former elementary, middle, and high school teacher, and was the editor of Independent School magazine. She wrote a column for young readers about health and psychology in The Washington Post for fifteen years, and is the author of numerous nonfiction books for children. She and her husband, a headmaster, live on the campus of a boarding school near Boston.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0345438094
• ISBN 13: 9780345438096
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 299