How To Help Your Child Develop Good Friendships

How can I help my child to develop good friendships?

You can encourage your child having good friendships, partly by inviting children back to play when they're quite small, so they get an idea to practice the social skills involved. Until children learn to share and be kind and take account of other children's needs, it's quite hard for them to keep friends, so you can do it in that way. You can also teach them about the importance of those social skills, about being kind, about the fact that you have to take turns, and you can role play those at home so that they're much more likely to keep friends when they start school.