{"id":2626,"date":"2019-07-18T08:47:23","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T14:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/?p=2626"},"modified":"2019-07-18T08:47:23","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T14:47:23","slug":"purposeful-parenting-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/?p=2626","title":{"rendered":"Purposeful Parenting Part 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Encourage your child to make friends!\u00a0 The benefits are numerous! Friendships will help them develop in many areas of their social and emotional learning.\u00a0 Playing with peers develops your child\u2019s imagination and creativity.\u00a0 It helps them with decision-making since parental micromanaging is not in the picture.\u00a0 By interacting with their friends, children find a sense of belonging which in turn, helps decrease the stress they might feel in social situations.<\/p>\n

Experts say that meaningful relationships between friends form at about 4-5 years old.\u00a0 Unless you have the little \u201csocial butterfly\u201d, you may need to give guidance to your child when it comes to making friends.\u00a0 Here\u2019s some ideas how:<\/p>\n

Recognize their strengths \u2013 <\/strong>By noticing what your child does best, you can build their confidence in going forward to make friends.\u00a0 You can also talk to them about communicating with other kids to find out things they have in common. Schedule play dates with kids who are compatible with them.<\/p>\n

Role play<\/strong> \u2013 Teach your child how to meet a new potential friend.\u00a0 Give them something to say to introduce themselves and questions they can ask.\u00a0 Practice this with them.<\/p>\n

Teach them friendship qualities \u2013 <\/strong>Friends are happy when the other has accomplishments or celebrations.\u00a0 Friends don\u2019t gossip behind each other\u2019s backs.\u00a0 Friends offer help, understanding and compassion when the other is feeling down and discouraged. Friends aren\u2019t afraid to include others in the circle of friends\u2014no bullying! \u00a0Friends work things out in an argument.<\/p>\n

Model friendship<\/strong> \u2013 Children will learn most from their parents\u2019 behavior and example.\u00a0 What you do with your friendships will speak louder than all the words you can say to your child.\u00a0 When they see you in healthy friendships, they will mimic what you do and how you treat your friends.\u00a0 Your efforts in helping your child develop friendships will result in them being fulfilled and well-adjusted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Encourage your child to make friends!\u00a0 The benefits are numerous! Friendships will help them develop in many areas of their social and emotional learning.\u00a0 Playing with peers develops your child\u2019s imagination and creativity.\u00a0 It helps them with decision-making since parental micromanaging is not in the picture.\u00a0 By interacting with their friends, children find a sense<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2628,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626\/revisions\/2628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}