"With uncommon sensitivity and intelligence...this] book offers parents a window into their kids\' often tumultuous relationships with classmates." - Time Friends broaden our children\'s horizons, share their joys and secrets, and accompany them on their journeys into ever wider worlds. "Relevant and comp.
Parents, teachers, counselors-indeed anyone who cares about children-will find this an eye-opening and wonderfully affirming book.
Filled with anecdotes that ring amazingly true to life, Best Friends, Worst Enemies probes the magic and the heartbreak that all Children experience with their friends.
Here you will find penetrating discussions of the difference between friendship and popularity, how boys and girls deal in unique ways with intimacy and commitment, whether all kids need a Best friend, why cliques form and what you can do about them.
Best Friends, Worst Enemies brings to life the drama of childhood relationships, guiding parents to a deeper Understanding of the motives and meanings of Social behavior.
As parents, we watch, and often live through vicariously, the tumult that our Children experience as they encounter the "cool" crowd, shifting alliances, bullies, and disloyal Best friends.
As Children grow, their friendships become more complex and layered but also more emotionally fraught, marked by both extraordinary intimacy and bewildering cruelty.
Drawing on fascinating new research as well as their own extensive experience in schools, Thompson and Grace demonstrate that children\'s friendships begin early-in infancy-and run exceptionally deep in intensity and loyalty.
D., and children\'s book author Catherine O\'Neill Grace, illuminate the crucial and often hidden role that friendship plays in the Lives of Children from birth through adolescence.
In this wise and insightful book, psychologist Michael Thompson, Ph.
Children can cause untold suffering, not only for their peers but for parents as well.
But Friends can also gossip and betray, tease and exclude. "With uncommon sensitivity and intelligence...this] book offers parents a window into their kids\' often tumultuous relationships with classmates." - Time Friends broaden our children\'s horizons, share their joys and secrets, and accompany them on their journeys into ever wider worlds
