Friendship

Friendship is something that children sometimes need guidance through as they navigate grades k-12. Learning about healthy friendships is important for students and without loving and true friendships, students are  likely to have a greater difficulty navigating social life in school.

The following are some things that I learned in class to help students:

Teach students about true friendships
Often, kids don't know the difference between a true friendship and one that is more fake. It is important for students to know that friendships are mutual where both friends put in effort to the friendship and benefit each other.

Activity involvement
Getting kids involved in activities is really important. By doing this, they can find friends with similar interests.

Friend role model
It is important to be a role model to children when it comes to your own friendships. By having good friendships yourself, students can see what a healthy friendship is and learn from the friendships that you have.

These are three major take aways that I got from this portion of the presentation, but a few other things that are important are having service to others, having honesty and tact, talking about boundaries, and having empathy towards others. Overall, all of these are important in their own ways to developing and maintaining healthy friendships and relationships and kids can learn a great deal from this information to help them socially and emotionally.