Category: School Age and Teen Related Issues
Age range: ages 6-18

Friendships are such an important part of school age children’s worlds. There are typical struggles that arise for children around friendships, such as trying to “fit in”, teasing and handling peer pressure. Some children experience greater challenges making and/or maintaining friendships and may feel isolated and lonely. Parents have emotional reactions to their children’s struggles with friendship. This workshop helps parents understand developmentally typical patterns that occur in children’s friendships as well as those which are more difficult. The workshop also provides a framework for when and how parents should become involved with their children’s friendship issues.