You can help your children’s friendships grow and endure by:
actively listening to your child without trying to solve their problems
helping them with practical things like transport, phone calls and making visiting arrangements
taking an interest in your child’s friends and getting to know them
spending time with your child and their friends
giving them safe spaces to do things on their own
finding out interesting things for them to do and experience and suggesting different ways to think about problems
remaining non judgmental.
Tip taken from the Department for Community Development’s Parenting Tips website.
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