Join us for an evening with best selling author and international speaker, Michael G. Thompson, Ph.D., as he shares insights and research from his 2001 book Best Friends/Worst Enemies. From the author's website:

"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."

Michael G. Thompson, Ph.D. is a consultant, author and psychologist specializing in children and families. He is the supervising psychologist for The Belmont Hill School and has worked in more than seven hundred schools across the United States, as well as in international schools in Central American, Europe, Africa and Asia. Michael has authored or co-authored nine books, including Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys (1991), Best Friends/Worst Enemies: Understanding the Social Lives of Children (2001) and The Pressured Child: Helping Your Child Achieve Success in School and Life (2004). A dedicated speaker and traveler, he has appeared on the Today Show, the Oprah Winfrey Show, 20/20, and 60 Minutes, among others. He is married to Dr. Theresa McNally, a psychotherapist, and is the father of an adult daughter and son and grandfather of two granddaughters and one grandson.