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Friendship skills are the skills and abilities necessary to make a positive, lasting, healthy connection with another person. Friendship skills make it possible for us to form and sustain relationships with others. Friendship skills are numerous, and can be socially complex. Friendship skills include such skills as, communication, sharing, empathy, fairness, acceptance, etc. Below you will find resources you can use at home to help teach this important skill to your child.
Resources for Young Children:
Information:
How to Help Kids Make Friends
https://www.parentingscience.com/kids-make-friends.html
10 Friendship Skills Every Kid Needs
https://sunshine-parenting.com/10-friendship-skills-every-kid-needs/
4 Skills for Making Friends
https://www.understood.org/en/friends-feelings/common-challenges/making-keeping-friends/4-skills-for-making-friends
Activities:
40 Friendship Skill Building Activities
https://www.andnextcomesl.com/2019/05/friendship-skills-activities.html
Top 10 Friendship Games and Activities
https://www.healthline.com/health/parenting/friendship-activities
Videos:
Sesame Street: Murray Reports of Friendship
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ9AdEmFUOM
Kid Presidents Guide to Making New Friends
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoHdwUEfBts&list=PLy65jOIMbR01T8v-XTAEkBfUhHPocGvUz&index=53
Getting Along with Others
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te6ftIq9tDA&list=PLy65jOIMbR01T8v-XTAEkBfUhHPocGvUz&index=59
Friendship Soup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7w7yXkJTu0&list=PLy65jOIMbR01T8v-XTAEkBfUhHPocGvUz&index=2&t=0s
Resources for Adolescents:
Information:
Healthy Friendships in Adolescents
https://www.hhs.gov/ash/oah/adolescent-development/healthy-relationships/healthy-friendships/index.html#role
How to Talk to your Teen about Friendships
https://www.verywellfamily.com/talking-to-teens-about-friendship-2610992
6 Ways to Help Your Teen Make and Keep Great Friends
https://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/6-ways-to-help-your-teen-make-keep-great-friends-0701164
Talking to your Teen about Bad Friendships
https://parents.au.reachout.com/skills-to-build/wellbeing/things-to-try-friendships/talking-to-your-teen-about-bad-friendships
Activities:
5 Activities for Teens to Build Trust and Cooperation
https://nobelcoaching.com/team-building-teens/
Friendship Games for Teenagers
https://oureverydaylife.com/friendship-games-for-teenagers-12084477.html
Videos:
Guide to Maintaining Friendships
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9ulSfCGMUs
Toxic Vs. Healthy Friendship
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Teamwork is when a group of people work together to accomplish a common goal. Teamwork skills are needed in order to be successful in all aspects of our lives. In order to excel at teamwork, we must get along well with others, value other people’s strengths, confidently share our ideas, and listen well to others. When we are a positive member of a team, we know that “two heads are better than one” and that we can accomplish more together than we can alone. Below you will find resources you can use at home to help teach this important skill to your child.
Resources for Young Children:
Information:
6 Tips for Teaching Your Child Teamwork
https://national.macaronikid.com/articles/59a70aaa6a33644cae651292/6-tips-for-teaching-your-children-teamwork
Let’s Work Together
https://extension.psu.edu/programs/betterkidcare/knowledge-areas/environment-curriculum/activities/all-activities/let2019s-work-together
5 Ways to Encourage Teamwork from the Sideline
https://learn.truesport.org/5-ways-to-encourage-teamwork/
Synergy Saturdays
https://www.leaderinme.org/blog/synergy-saturdays/
Activities:
33 Awesome Team Building Activities for Kids
https://www.weareteachers.com/team-building-games-and-activities/
Games to Get Kids to Work Together
https://www.kidsplayandcreate.com/how-to-get-kids-to-work-together-games-for-kids/
Videos:
Teamwork Pays Off
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuo13FrNX6g
Power of Teamwork (commercial)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zacF1pZR1Fg&feature=related
Resources for Adolescents:
Information:
Team Building Activities for Teens: A Complete Guide
https://ventureteambuilding.co.uk/team-building-activities-for-teens/#.Xx7otZ5Ki70
All About Team Building
https://allaboutteambuilding.com/team-building-activities-for-teens/
The Importance of Family Teamwork
https://www.metrofamilymagazine.com/the-importance-of-family-teamwork/
Activities:
10 Team Building Activities to do with Your Family
https://helpyourteennow.com/10-team-building-activities-to-do-with-your-family/
27 Team Building Games and Activities
https://www.momjunction.com/articles/team-building-activities-games-and-exercises-for-teens_00375666/
Videos:
Wisdom of Geese
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rOg4WfNDfM
Secrets of Successful Teamwork
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Mutual respect and understanding occurs when two people try to see where the other is coming from, and treat each other with kindness, concern, empathy and consideration. Mutual respect and understanding occurs when we treat those around us the way we would like to be treated. Below you will find resources you can use at home to help teach this important skill to your child.
Resources for Young Children:
Information:
All About Respect
https://kidshelpline.com.au/teens/issues/all-about-respect
Teaching Kids to Disagree Respectfully
https://www.verywellfamily.com/ways-to-teach-kids-to-disagree-respectfully-4116929
How to Teach Kids Respect
https://www.aatozz.com/how-to-teach-kids-respect/
Activities:
Activities to Teach Kids Respect
https://kids.lovetoknow.com/child-education/activities-teach-kids-respect
Fun Ways to Teach Children to Respect Others
https://healthfully.com/512852-fun-ways-to-teach-children-respect-for-others.html
Videos:
Sesame Street: Respect
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOzrAK4gOSo
Kid President’s 20 Things We Should Say More Often
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5yCOSHeYn4
Resources for Adolescents:
Information:
How to Teach Teens to Respect Parents
https://www.parents.com/parenting/better-parenting/teenagers/how-teach-teens-respect-parents/
The Language of Respect
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-moment-youth/201402/the-language-respect
Show Some Respect
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t40SZtaJo84
Activities:
Games for Teens to Teach Respect
https://howtoadult.com/games-teens-teach-respect-12005930.html
Teaching Respect to Teenagers
http://youthworkinit.com/teaching-respect-to-teenagers/
Videos:
How You Treat People is Who You Are
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTsvSAItPqA
Who Should You Respect and Why?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQojVPAVcDc
Be Kind to Others
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Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. When we have empathy, we are able to put ourselves in someone else’s shoes, and imagine what they are feeling and what they are going through. Empathy allows us to connect with others, build relationships and show compassion for what others are experiencing. Below you will find resources you can use at home to help teach this important skill to your child.
Resources for Young Children:
Information:
15 Ways to Help Kids Develop Empathy
https://parentingpod.com/teaching-kids-empathy/
For Families: 5 Tips for Cultivating Empathy
https://mcc.gse.harvard.edu/resources-for-families/5-tips-cultivating-empathy
Why it’s Important to Nurture Empathy in Kids
https://www.verywellfamily.com/how-to-nurture-empathy-in-kids-and-why-its-so-important-621098
The Importance of Showing Empathy to Kids who Think and Act Differently
https://www.understood.org/en/learning-thinking-differences/understanding-childs-challenges/talking-with-your-child/the-importance-of-showing-empathy-to-kids-with-learning-and-thinking-differences
Activities:
8 Empathy Activities
http://preventingbullying.promoteprevent.org/8-empathy-activities
17 Activities for Kids to Practice Kindness and Compassion
https://www.naturespath.com/en-us/blog/17-activities-kids-practice-kindness-compassion/
13 Games that Teach Empathy
https://www.parentmap.com/article/games-apps-teach-empathy-compassion
Videos:
All About Empathy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Itp21tly8nM
Sesame Street: Empathy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_1Rt1R4xbM
Resources for Adolescents:
Information:
How to Help Teenagers Develop Empathy
https://www.melbournechildpsychology.com.au/blog/help-teenagers-develop-empathy/
Growing Empathy in Teens
https://www.today.com/parenting-guides/growing-empathy-teens-t179092
Teaching Teens the Power of Empathy
http://mindquestgroup.com/teaching-teens-power-of-empathy/
Activities:
Teaching Empathy to Young Adolescents
https://www.originsonline.org/newsletters/winter-2008-dd/teaching-empathy-young-adolescents
Tools to Teach Teens Compassion and Empathy
https://howtoadult.com/tools-teach-teen-compassion-empathy-12264468.html
Empathy Quiz
https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/quizzes/take_quiz/empathy
Videos:
Empathy Can Change the World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU3QfyqvHk8&t=2s
Brene Brown on Empathy
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