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.įilled 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. 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.īest 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 children grow, their friendships become more complex and layered but also more emotionally fraught, marked by both extraordinary intimacy and bewildering cruelty.
In this wise and insightful book, psychologist Michael Thompson, Ph.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.ĭrawing 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.
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. Fields, being African American, forged a deep friendship with Sapphire Pierce, who is half-Chinese. It was during an era in our nation’s history when most students at Abigail Adams School were white. For more information, see the Facebook event page and the Eventbrite page.Friends broaden our children’s horizons, share their joys and secrets, and accompany them on their journeys into ever wider worlds. Fields explains that Sapphire Pierce, the owner of the home, is her first best friend from when the women were young. News and World Report and has been a guest on NPR’s “Morning Edition” with Susan Stamberg, “Talk of the Nation” with Ray Suarez and the Diane Rhem Show.Īdvance sign up is requested.
He has been quoted in the New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, Time and U.S. Thompson has appeared on shows such as The Today Show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, ABC 20/20, CBS 60 Minutes, The Early Show and Good Morning America. He will draw on research to highlight the differences between friendship and popularity, the description says, and will make the case that while all children yearn for popularity, it is friendship that helps children survive and thrive, it says.
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