Help Your Child Make Friends

12 Ways to Help Your Child Make Friends

In this talk, Dr. Eileen Kennedy-Moore offers practical guidance for parents who want to help their children develop meaningful friendships. While parents can’t make friends for their children, they can play a key role in helping them build the social and emotional skills needed to foster caring and enjoyable connections. This presentation shares a dozen actionable ideas for supporting children who are struggling to make or maintain friends.

As an effective parent you will be able to:-

• recognize examples of stop signals and techniques to help children stop.
• know strategies children can use to signal openness to friendship.
• understand some helpful ways parents can respond when children are upset about a lack of friendships.