Whether you’re a homeschooling family or send your kids to school, the first elementary lessons on friendship, often taught to kids between the ages of 4-8, can have a lasting impact.

Following are 3 friendship lessons kids learn early in life.

These lessons form the building blocks of future relationships.

As kids grasp the importance of friendship, the more attention they pay to keeping the friends they make.

It's easy to make friends, but each of us must discover what it takes to keep friends.

Basically,

1. kids learn to share themselves and their “stuff” with other kids to develop true friendships.

   This can initially be a struggle, and each child must learn for herself what she is comfortable in sharing with others and when.

   Kids become more willing to share as they like and trust each other more.

2. Kids learn that making friends is important to their happiness. They learn that we all need other people who like us and respect us.

3. One of the other elementary lessons on friendship kids learn is acceptance of their friends for who they are, not who they want them to be.

   Accepting other people can push all our buttons, as often we want people to be they way we want them to be.

Learning to accept ourselves goes a long way in accepting others.

I go into much greater detail on the making and keeping of friendships in my 7 part e-course.

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