Child to Have Good Friends
One way in which parents can help the child to have friends is to him or her a chance to be with other children around their owr Selfishness among young children comes naturally, cooperation ually. There may be many reasons why a child fails to make frierl may be that some of these questions are related to the problem: I "mama's darling"'? Have the parents prohibited his noisy friends coming around? Was she pushed too hard into being sociable? teachers recognize that often an unpopular, sometimes lonely has to be worked into a group activity where he or she can warm the situation. The lonely child has a hard time expressing why she is lonely. This is also true of some adults. One person put i way: "I feel most alone when I am misunderstood."
By the age of two years chiidren may begin to show prefen in friends among several children, and a year or so later s attachments between two children may be noticed. Such attachr. may last only a fp.w days or weeks, or they may last for year. Some companionships may become so close among two or three child!' to limit the widening of their social contacts.
Quarrels among children are frequent, and so are aggre! ness, teasing, bad manners, and impoliteness. These types of bl ior, however, rarely have a long-term bad effect on social de\ ment. In contrast, prejudice instilled in the young may restrict opportunities later.
