Importance of Friendships

Next to the parents, a child’s friends can be the biggest influence in a child’s life, and the need to fit in can be very hard for a child. The idea of being cool or giving into peer pressure can cause a child’s idea of what’s right and what’s wrong to become misconstrued. Causing a child to fall into a bad crowd of delinquent peers causing them to get into trouble with the law.

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Many children have attended a preschool or nursery before starting school, they are now entering a new setting and as part of a much larger group they will need to adapt to much more complex social situations (Yael Schmueli-Goetz). Yvonne Skipper said that 10%have trouble socially, without the friendships they do not have the opportunities to practice skills like ‘listening, responding, it may effect cognitive development because they may struggle more with listening instructions, and responding to teachers. (Yvonne Skipper o.u. video 2015 in Yael schmueli-Goetz.) By having friends children campractice the listening, responding and turn taking which will help them with the school routine once they begin their formal

Peer relationships are some of the most important interactions we have in our childhood. According to lecture (5/7/2015), these relationships help to build our social skills as well our social competence, creating a social acceptance amongst our peers. Our textbook (pg. 321) explains that peer relationships promote both physical and cognitive development. Once the child enters the preschool age they begin to differentiate friends from peers. A peer is simply an acquaintance, the child plays with them due to accessibility and similar background or social standing; however, a friend is someone with shared interests and associated with positive experiences. During this study into peer relationships in early and middle childhood, I interviewed two young girls. Kayla is 11 years old and Adison is 4 years old. While some of their views on friendship and peer interactions are similar, most of their views are worlds apart.

This shows that children are more inclined to create friendships which they have been exposed to previously linking what they believe, ethnicity and places they have been together, as something they have in

Close friends often have a major impact on the choices that people make. A close

Peer relations is an important factor that affects the lives of many kids during their development. Kids under the popular group tend to be more collaborative with people around them. Those kids are more likely to start and maintain positive relationships. As the book of A Topical Approach to Life-Span Development describes, “ Popular children give out reinforcement, listen carefully, maintain open lines of communication with peers, are happy, control their negative emotions, show enthusiasm and concern for others, and are self-confident without being conceited” (520). The popular group tends to easily interact with other kids and usually express more their feelings and thoughts.

Every day we are socially interactive. Throughout work, school, phone calls, social media, etc. we must connect socially with others around us. That is why it is so important that children fully develop in all seven dimensions of wellness. " Children who learn positive friendship skills have been shown to develop better relationships with others, which benefits their mental health and wellbeing".

Relationships and positive interactions in children while growing up form the basis for their learning and development and this is determined by each child’s unique and personal attributes (National Infant & Toddler Child Care Initiative, 2010; Clinton, 2013). In order for children to make and keep friends, Stephens (2002, p. 1-2) reported that they must “recognize shared interests, gracefully join into play, pay attention to non-verbal communication cues, identify common goal, listen to and respect feelings, empathize with another person’s perspective, practice compassion, cooperate, accept others, include others and extend a trust-worthy, helping hand.” Development is a deliberate process and action, therefore, children have the innate desire

Finally, associating with antisocial friends increases a child's antisocial behavior more than contact with nonaggressive friends, especially among children who are themselves aggressive and rejected (Dishion, 1990). Dyadic processes have been shown to depend on the characteristics of the children involved in the exchange. Some of the differences in children's development that are traceable to characteristics of their partners may emanate from modeling or reinforcement of the normative behavior that the partners manifest.Among 4-year-olds, however, the word "friend" is frequently used, and about three quarters of children at this age are involved in friendships, as indicated by the amount of time they spend together as well as the reciprocal and affective nature of their interaction (Howes, 1983). Some of the differences in children's development that are traceable to characteristics of their partners may emanate from modeling or reinforcement of the normative behavior that the partners

Trawick-Smith in the text Early Childhood Development: A Multicultural Perspective (2014) defines social competence as “two interrelated aspects of human developments: being liked by others and having skills to interact effectively in social settings” (pg. 89). It has been proven that children who are lacking social abilities, do not get along well with their peers, and who are aggressive in their early years, are more likely to become troubled psychologically in later childhood, adolescence, and adulthood (Trawick-Smith, 2014). Some good predictors of well-developed social competence are positive relationships with peers, and strong social skills. So it is easy to see that well developed social competence is key for an individual’s happiness and mental health throughout their

Is friendship part of one’s life? What are the requirements for a friend? Are friends there whenever one needs him or her? Is there constant communication between friends? How many people remember the lyrics from that Houdini song? “Friends, how many of us have them? Friends, the ones you can depend on.” The philosopher Aristotle said, “In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. They keep the young out of mischief; they comfort and aid the old in their weakness, and they incite those in the prime of life to noble deeds.”

As a child I had a difficult time connecting with other people. I had many acquaintances but few friends and for a long time I was alright with this fact. It was not until freshman year of high school that I finally noticed my problem of being unsocial. There were two resources that made me aware of this and both helped me to become a more socially active person.