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Friendships are hard to develop and they are also hard to watch! As our children develop relationships with their peers, it is not unusual for the pleasures and anxieties of our own early friendships to cloud our view. Yet our job is to have a wider view, a "big picture" so that we are able to maintain perspective even we are faced with their discomforts and challenges. How can we help to prepare them to be responsible adults who can develop and maintain loving, intimate relationships? How can we help them develop the ability to problem solve and forgive?
How would you recommend friends resolve a difference? At what point do you recommend parents getting involved?
AS long as children are open to our advice, it is great to give it to them. Give them strategies as to how to try to manage a disagreement or strategies as to how to let something go. Make sure they understand that the first strategy may not work and ask them to try it, as a type of experiment, and them come back to let you know how it went. This way, they will feel your support, but still be working on their own skills and resiliency. Please let us know how it goes!
Friendships are hard to develop and they are also hard to watch! As our children develop relationships with their peers, it is not unusual for the pleasures and anxieties of our own early friendships to cloud our view. Yet our job is to have a wider view, a "big picture" so that we are able to maintain perspective even we are faced with their discomforts and challenges. How can we help to prepare them to be responsible adults who can develop and maintain loving, intimate relationships? How can we help them develop the ability to problem solve and forgive?
How would you recommend friends resolve a difference? At what point do you recommend parents getting involved?
AS long as children are open to our advice, it is great to give it to them. Give them strategies as to how to try to manage a disagreement or strategies as to how to let something go. Make sure they understand that the first strategy may not work and ask them to try it, as a type of experiment, and them come back to let you know how it went. This way, they will feel your support, but still be working on their own skills and resiliency. Please let us know how it goes!