Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Understanding the Social Lives of Children
by Michael Thompson, Cathe O'Neill-Grace, Lawrence J. Cohen, Catherine O'Neill Grace
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Author: Cathe O'Neill-Grace, Catherine O'Neill Grace, Lawrence J. Cohen, Michael ThompsonEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2002-07-30
ISBN: 034544289X
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Ballantine Books
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Book Review: Worst Enemies/ Best Friends Beacon Street Girls
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Hi,My name is Taylor. I read Beacon Street Girls. It was a really great book. You never knew what to expect next. It was so interesting I could hardly put it down. It is a good book for any age girl. I felt like I was one of the Beacon Street Girls. I could see myself there. It is a perfect book for every girl. It has all the personalities of every girl, so anyone can relate to it. The book kept me guessing throughout the entire story. Even when I put it down I kept wondering what was going to happen next. I would highly recommend this book to any girl of any age. I know you will enjoy this and be glad you read it. I hope you will be as excited as I to read the next book and tell your friends.
Summary of Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Understanding the Social Lives of Children
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 grow, their friendships become more complex and layered but also more emotionally fraught, marked by both extraordinary intimacy and bewildering cruelty. 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.
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. 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.
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. Parents, teachers, counselors?indeed anyone who cares about children?will find this an eye-opening and wonderfully affirming book.
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