children friendships
3 reasons why they are so important when growing up
Best friends stick together – come what may!
Close friendships make life better – and play a very important role, especially for children.
Best friends shape us for life. That’s not an exaggeration, because when we think back to our own childhoods, we all tend to have certain images in our minds of what we did with the children we were friends with. The common fits of laughter when playing with Barbies or Lego bricks. The pranks on a class trip in the youth hostel. Going to the ice cream parlor together on hot summer days. No question: Best friends simply make life even better, especially in childhood.
Children’s best friends: That’s why they’re so important
Our own friends are above all that: our own decision as to who we want to spend time with. For children in particular, this experience is one of the first steps towards independence that mum and dad can’t interfere with. It happens again and again that parents can sometimes almost despair of their children’s friendships, but nothing helps: who you find nice and who you want to play with is a totally personal decision that nobody can interfere with.
Quarrels and conflicts: as important as they are painful
At some point, this also includes the experience that the best friend of all people behaves stupidly, what stupid things say or what stupid things are good, and suddenly the first argument arises. This is also an important experience: children know trouble in their own family, but the framework conditions are completely different when there are conflicts in friendships. And yet it turns out that a friendship can survive even a small scuffle or toys thrown in passion. And a mutual apology is also one of the experiences that make the first friendships in life so formative. You can see in the video why they generally have such a particularly important and formative influence on children!
Source used: Gostudent.org