Eileen Kennedy-Moore - Growing Friendships: A Kids Guide to Making and Keeping Friends

PRAISE FOR

GROWING FRIENDSHIPS

Funny, practical, and not at all preachy Growing Friendships offers spot-on, research-based friendship advice for girls AND boys. Highly recommended! This must-read book is the Google Maps to friendship that every kid needs.

Michele Borba, author of Unselfie

Growing Friendships is the secret playbook youll wish youd had when you were growing up. Its packed with clever strategies that help kids handle the awkward, upsetting, and confusing social situations that happen to everyone. The fun cartoons make the advice light-hearted and easy to swallow.

Diane Debrovner, deputy editor of Parents magazine

Practical examples, real-life solutions, and playful humor make Growing Friendships a great resource. This insightful guide can help kids become competent problem solvers, cope with common social challenges, develop empathy, and build strong friendships.

Tina Payne Bryson, PhD, coauthor of bestsellers The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline

This book is so important! All children face friendship challenges at some point and Growing Friendships offers kids real helpand enough giggles to make the messages fun and memorable.

Amy McCready, author of If I Have to Tell You One More Time and The Me, Me, Me Epidemic

Some kids intuitively know how to make and manage friendships. Most dont. Growing Friendships is a kid-friendly guide that uses simple language, engaging illustrations, and humor to help girls AND boys master the mysteries of social interaction.

Jennifer L.W. Fink, founder of BuildingBoys.net

This empowering and entertaining guide for kids shows ways to maneuver the often tricky, confusing, and challenging journey to build and maintain positive friendships. Not only do children learn strategies to make new friends, handle stressful situations, say no to a pushy peer, and be a great team member, Growing Friendships makes the process fun and meaningful for the entire family.

Marilyn Price-Mitchell, PhD, developmental psychologist and founder of Roots of Action

Kids who have social skill challenges often view friendship as an event or a product (Hi, Im Michael. Lets be best friends and have a sleepover tonight.) . They do not understand that friendship is a PROCESS with specific steps and sequences. Eileen Kennedy-Moore brings a wealth of experience, knowledge, and sensitivity to this issue. Her book Growing Friendships teaches kids the strategies they can use to establishand maintainpeer relationships. Her unique and entertaining format holds the childs attention and makes these complex concepts understandable and within reach. It will be an invaluable tool for parents and professionals as they try to prevent their child from hearing the most dreaded words in childhood: Sorry, you cant sit there. That seats taken.

Richard D. Lavoie, author of Its So Much Work to be Your Friend

Finally! A gap in the literature of friendship is filled. Growing Friendships is profound and subtle, clear and humorous. Anyone, of any age, who reads it will benefit.

Wendy Mogel, PhD, author of The Blessing of a Skinned Knee

Childrens friendships are a rollercoaster of emotion and conflictfun and exciting when a friendship is going well, but challenging and even crushing when its not. Growing Friendships taps into the real-life problems kids facefrom the friend who tells your secret to the one who likes you one day and wont play with you the next. This spot-on guide navigates the slippery slope of inevitable difficulties with kid humor and compassion to demonstrate not only how to mend friendships or let them go, but also how to be a good friend. If you have school-age children theyand youneed this book.

Susan Newman, PhD, social psychologist and author of Little Things Long Remembered and The Case for the Only Child

The complexities of friendships in the school-aged years can be the most perplexing for students, parents, and educators alike. Growing Friendships gives research-based, concrete, and effective solutions for navigating these relationships. A tool every school should have!

Kelly Bos, MSW, RSW , psychotherapist, parent, and former school counselor

For any child struggling with friendships, this book will be a source of comfort, guidance, and fun, with its wonderful illustrations and child-centered dialogue. Counselors, psychologists, and parents, this is a book to read with the children you care about.

Maurice J. Elias, PhD, Rutgers University, coauthor of The Joys and Oys of Parenting and Emotionally Intelligent Parenting

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Text copyright 2017 by Eileen Kennedy-Moore and Christine McLaughlin

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The vignettes in this book are based on dialogues with children the authors have known. The characters are composites and so no real names have been used. The dialogues represent typical behavior and problems, and they do not refer to specific people or real events. This book is for educational purposes only. It does not constitute and should not substitute for individual professional advice, psychotherapy, or the provision of psychological services.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Kennedy-Moore, Eileen, author. | McLaughlin, Christine, author.

Title: Growing friendships : a kids guide to making and keeping friends / Eileen Kennedy-Moore and Christine McLaughlin.

Description: New York : Aladdin ; Hillsboro, Oregon : Beyond Words, 2017.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016019719 | ISBN 9781582705880 (paperback) | ISBN 9781582705897 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781481466462 (eBook)

Subjects: LCSH: Friendship in childrenJuvenile literature. | Interpersonal relations in childrenJuvenile literature. | Social skills in childrenJuvenile literature.