Helping Children Build Friendships

Your child comes home from school again, having eaten lunch alone, and you're standing in the kitchen wondering whether to step in or let it play out.

The Reality: Making friends isn't as simple for today's children as it was for previous generations. Many kids need real guidance to build the social and emotional skills that lead to lasting relationships, it doesn't always come naturally anymore.

The Challenge: Parents want to help, but it's easy to cross the line from teaching a skill to solving the problem for your child, which can leave them less equipped to handle the next social hurdle on their own.

What You'll Gain:

1. Understanding of the different types and age stages of friendship.
2. Age appropriate strategies to help children develop the needed social skills to develop friendships.
3. A clearer picture of the unique challenges kids face in forming friendships today.
4. A practical understanding of how to help, not rescue, your child through peer interactions
5. You'll leave knowing how to guide from the sidelines, so your child builds the skills, not just the friendship.

For parents of children navigating friendships and peer relationships.

Questions: Contact U of A Life and Work Connections.