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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. But friends can also gossip and betray, tease and exclude. Children can cause untold suffering, not only for their peers but for parents as well. 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.

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. As children

Best Friends Worst Enemies

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    A Paperback / softback by Michael Thompson, Cathe O'Neill-Grace

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      Publisher: Random House USA Inc
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 30/07/2002
      ISBN13: 9780345442895, 978-0345442895
      ISBN10: 034544289X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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. But friends can also gossip and betray, tease and exclude. Children can cause untold suffering, not only for their peers but for parents as well. 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.

      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. As children

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