SALT LAKE CITY — We want our kids to have good friends, but have we taught them how to make good friends?
KSL Parenting Contributor Heather Johnson identified four things we can teach our kids so their friendships thrive.
“We’re under this impression that they’re kind of just born with it, right? Of course, who doesn’t know how to be a good friend, or who doesn’t know how to make new friends?” Johnson said. “They don’t. We need to teach them.”
How to Handle Rejection
Johnson emphasized that kids need to learn how to handle rejection because it happens all the time. Not only might they experience it making friends, but they will come across rejection as adults too…