Maintaining friendships
I can describe how to maintain good friendships during difficult times.
Maintaining friendships
I can describe how to maintain good friendships during difficult times.
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Key learning points
- Some life events, such as moving schools, make maintaining friendships hard.
- It can be harder to find the time and energy to maintain friendships, especially as we get older.
- We all need things from our friends, such as affection and listening when we share our feelings.
- Friends will all have different needs, and good friends ask what their friends need if they’re not sure.
- We need to make an effort to include people when we want to maintain a friendship.
Keywords
Friendship - a relationship between friends, built on trust and care
Maintain - in this context, putting in effort to keep a relationship healthy and working
Effort - to work hard at something
Needs - the things we want to have for us to feel happy and comfortable
Common misconception
Friends all have the same needs.
We all have different social needs, which means that we enjoy spending time with friends in different ways and for different amounts of time. Some people need more time alone, or need time to reflect after spending time with friends.
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Starter quiz
6 Questions
an agreement where all people are happy
in this context, a friendship which has been hurt
to fix something
green flag
red flag
red flag
green flag
Exit quiz
6 Questions
a relationship between friends, built on trust and care
putting in effort to keep a relationship healthy and working
to work hard at something
not a good listener
good listener
good listener
not a good listener
good listener