Michael Thompson, Ph.D.

Michael Thompson, Ph.D., is a psychologist, lecturer, consultant, and former seventh-grade teacher. He conducts workshops on social cruelty, children's friendships, and boys' development across the United States. He is the author of Speaking of Boys and coauthor of the New York Times bestseller Raising Cain, as well as Best Friends, Worst Enemies, with Catherine O'Neill Grace and Lawrence J. Cohen. The father of a daughter and a son, he and his wife live in Arlington, Massachusetts.

Books
	It's a Boy! Your Son's Development from Birth to Age 18 It's a Boy! provides expert advice on the developmental, psychological, social, emotional, and academic life of boys from infancy through the teen years. Exploring the many ways in which boys strive for masculinity and attempt to define themselves
	Speaking of Boys: Answers to the Most-Asked Questions About Raising Sons Q: This may sound like a stupid question, but I am an expectant mother, and we know it will be a boy. I've never had any experience around little boys. I never had any brothers and my sisters never had boys.
	Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys Luke, thirteen, pauses at the office door, undecided whether to take his baseball cap off or leave it alone; he pulls it off and steps in the room-the school psychologist's office. 'Come on in, Luke. Have a seat in the big chair.'
	Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Understanding the Social Lives of Children This is a book about the importance of children's social lives, the inevitable tendency of kids to torment and reject their peers, and the redemptive power of friendship. Every teacher and every parent watches children's relationships played out in front
	The Pressured Child: Helping Your Child Find Success in School and Life The question How was school today? may be the most-asked and least-answered question in America. It is the question that all parents are compelled to voice every day sometime between three p.m. and bedtime. Still, we cannot help ourselves.
	Mom, They're Teasing Me : Helping Your Child Solve Social Problems Every morning when the buses pull up in front of an elementary, middle, or high school building, an extraordinary social drama unfolds. Most adults miss the importance of this opening act of the school day, because it is a daily theater