Helping Kids To Pick their Friends
Posted: March 28, 2008” But Mummy ! All my friends get to stay up late and can stay overnight at their friend’s house! Why can’t I ? ”
Does that sound familiar ? If so, the solution may surprise you.
When children start to challenging your rules and regulations, sometimes it can be a sign that they are making the wrong kinds of friends.
When your children see their peers doing things they know you do not approve of them doing, it makes them feel uncomfortable.
The worst thing a child can imagine is feeling an misfit or outsider. So they push the limits and try to get you to give in.
Your biggest concern may not be what they want to do, but what kind of friends they are doing it with.
Teach them the importance of finding positive friends and role models.
Show them how to discern character and how to pick their friends- instead of allowing just anyone to pick them as friend.
Above all, hold fast to your rules and make sure they know the reason you made those rules in the first place.
