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- Kindergarten ReadinessKindergarten Prep: Spending Time With FriendsKindergarten Prep: Spending Time With FriendsFriendship is an important part of kindergarten success. Young children need to feel accepted by their peers and have the skills to play cooperatively, productively, and positively with others. What ...
- FriendshipsRaising Girls: Unsafe FriendsRaising Girls: Unsafe Friends Countless proverbs warn of the strong influence your daughter's friends can have on her, such as "Show me your friends and I show you who you are." While you do not want to belittle your daughter's friends, you do ...
- FriendshipsBoys and Their FriendsBoys and Their Friends Boys, like girls, crave connection and belonging. Like all of us, boys need friends, suffer when they don't believe they have any, and agonize over the ups and downs of relationships. Many adults believe that somehow boys ...
- FriendshipsRaising Girls: Finding Positive FriendsRaising Girls: Finding Positive Friends One of the best protective strategies for your daughter is to surround herself with numerous positive friends. You cannot be with her in school, after school, and during her practices and meetings. You can...
- Dealing With BulliesThe "Mean Chicks" PhenomenonThe "Mean Chicks" Phenomenon Since the early 1980s, our country has seen a sharp rise in violence among boys that has not abated. While the nation's attention has been focused more on them—especially since the Columbine tragedy—more girls ha...
- Social DevelopmentHelping Your Child Make FriendsHelping Your Child Make Friends Preschoolers make friends quickly and intensely. To your three-year-old, a "friend" is anyone who is willing to play with her the way she wants to play at the moment. It could be someone she sees every day in the ...
- FriendshipsNine-Year-Old Wants a BoyfriendNine is far too young to be having a solitary, romantic boyfriend or girlfriend. ...
- Time Management PrintablesSummer Addresses FormMake sure you keep in touch with your friends this summer, by recording their addresses on this printable sheet. ...
- FriendshipsDaughter Wants a Best FriendChildren can get upset when they don't have a "best" friend. You can help. ...
- FriendshipsDaughter Has No Close FriendsIf a child is physically attractive, makes excellent grades, and is liked by her peers, does it matter that she has no close friends, or any one special friend? ...
- Peer Influence and Peer PressureWhat To Do if Your Child's Friend is a Bad InfluenceWhen kids are little, you control much of their social circle by setting up play dates and keeping an eye on most of their interactions. Once they hit elementary school and beyond, kids start forging their own social path – and that may include...Rebecca Desfosse
- FriendshipsWhen a Child Loses Her Best FriendCounseling may be called for when a child shows signs of serious distress over losing a friend. ...
- FriendshipsWhen a Friendship EndsChildren may be very upset when a friendship ends. ...
- Activities for LD ChildrenDoes Special Ed Seventh-Grader Need More Friends?Special education students make friends in regular school fairly easily, but make sure that the school doesn't tolerate teasing, harassing, or bullying of any kind. ...
- FriendshipsDaughter Ignored by Best FriendThis is one of the normal and very painful developmental experiences of young teens. ...
- FriendshipsAffectionate Five-Year-OldA mother worries that her five-year-old's displays of affection toward his friends are inappropriate. ...
- FriendshipsFeeling Left OutMaking friends away from school may be a good way to keep a child from feeling left out. ...
- FriendshipsFriendships for Fifth GraderSome children don't need to have intense, close friendships to be happy. ...