To empower you to be a good friend and choose uplifting, positive friendships
While friendships can be one of the most uplifting, happy parts of your life that isn’t always the case. Particularly for younger folks, friendships can be drastically up and down.
While you may feel like you should stay loyal to those who are currently your friends, it is important to look at whether your friendships are healthy for you and whether you should alter or change the peer group that you currently have. To have friends you need to be a friend, but you also need to know how to hang around with people who make you feel good about yourself.
"The measure of true friendship is not how you feel about them but how they make you feel about yourself." - The Wedding Ringer
But it goes both ways. Your friends have every right to evaluate their relationship with you to see if it is healthy. If you catch yourself being underhanded, gossiping about your friends behind their backs, and betraying their confidence… you need to reassess that behaviour. Otherwise, you’ll quickly find yourself being branded a bad friend. Make sure you act in good faith, and have the self respect to insist that such good faith be returned.
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Books on this subject:
A Smart Girl’s Guide to Friendship Troubles
Learn about being a good friend. Learn about dealing with fights, being left out and the whole popularity thing. Friends are important to girls but even best friends have trouble getting along sometimes. This guide will help girls deal with friendship troubles from backstabbing and triangles etc.
Queen Bees, Drama Queens and Cliquey Teens
is a guide for teenagers looking for help surviving the friendship game. It looks at what being popular means, the downsides of friendships and what to do when things go wrong. Includes an 8 ways to empower yourself guide as self-esteem and self-confidence are vital when coping with girl friendships and girl bullying.
The Smart Girl’s Guide to Friendship
“My daughter discovered that she is not the only girl in the world to be having these experiences, that the author was backing up everything that I had been saying, and that friendship is a skill that can be learnt and practiced same as anything else. And a skill to develop for life. There’s also advice to the child on building up their self-esteem and confidence, and pursuing their passions and interests, so they are much more appealing to potential friends, and can survive if there are no friends around at any particular time.” Amazon Review
Videos on this subject:
Toxic People: How to End a Bad Relationship
This one’s for all of you who have ever struggled in a difficult friendship and wondered—how do you end it? Bad friendships can drag you down, but sometimes it’s hard to recognize the signs of unhealthy ones. You have to first accept that the nature of a relationship is toxic before you can figure out how to peace out! Watch this video to learn how to successfully break up with your friend and move on.