Learning to Be a Good Friend: A Guidebook for Kids

By R. W. Alley and Christine A. Adams

Learning to Be a Good Friend allows adults to show kids how to cultivate friendship. It discusses behaviors that foster friendships, as well as those that drive friends away. It illustrates the pitfalls of peer pressure, and what to do when you can’t find a friend or have lost your best friend.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
• Release date: Sep 2, 2014
• ISBN: 9781497682962

R. W. Alley

R. W. Alley has illustrated a number of books featuring Paddington Bear. He lives in Barrington, Rhode Island, with his wife, author Zoë B. Alley.

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A Message to Parents, Teachers,

and Other Caring Adults

All kids need friends. To have friends, a child needs to learn to be a good friend. Yet children aren’t born with finely tuned social skills. They need to learn how to make friends, choose friends wisely, and keep good friends.

The single most important factor in the development of friendship skills is the way children are treated at home and school. Attitudes of acceptance versus criticism in these environments get played out in the child’s social world. For example, constantly demanding things of a child instead of negotiating decisions can teach that child to be bossy and demanding with peers.

Second, adults

Reviews for Learning to Be a Good Friend

[swastikapandey · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

it was nice (really nice indeed ) but i am too old for that book :/