Friendships

Kindergarten 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 ...

Raising 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 ...

Boys 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 ...

Raising 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...

The "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...

Helping 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 ...

Nine is far too young to be having a solitary, romantic boyfriend or girlfriend. ...

Make sure you keep in touch with your friends this summer, by recording their addresses on this printable sheet. ...

Children can get upset when they don't have a "best" friend. You can help. ...

If 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? ...

When 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 includ...

Counseling may be called for when a child shows signs of serious distress over losing a friend. ...

Children may be very upset when a friendship ends. ...

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. ...

This is one of the normal and very painful developmental experiences of young teens. ...

A mother worries that her five-year-old's displays of affection toward his friends are inappropriate. ...

Making friends away from school may be a good way to keep a child from feeling left out. ...

Some children don't need to have intense, close friendships to be happy. ...