How to Help Your Daughter Make Friends

Parents can help their daughters make friends by personal mediation, parental encouragement and social skills advice. It is often the case that young females need assistance in making new friends, especially after moving to a new environment or school. Young females start their social lives and begin to build their social skills by interacting with their peers -- usually classmates. However, parents should be aware that the close relationships young females form with friends are different from those of adults.

Instructions

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      Invite a few of her classmates to your home over the weekend. It is best to only invite a small group as this will give your daughter more opportunity to establish friendships with her classmates. Inviting a small group of classmates to your home gives your daughter relationship-building opportunities that she might not have at school due to the competitive style of interacting in large groups.

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      Discuss with your daughter ways to make friends with classmates. Many young females lack the confidence to actively seek out new friends, instead waiting for others to approach them for friendship. By teaching your daughter basic social skills, you will be instilling in her the ability to cast off her fear of rejection, allowing her to more easily approach her fellow students at school.

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      Encourage your daughter to join a club or participate in extracurricular activities. After-school clubs offer better opportunities than in-school social events to make new friends. This is due to groups being smaller and the activity being more enjoyable for the students. Even if your daughter is not interested in any of the clubs or after-school activities her school offers, there are still clubs and activities unconnected to school that she can join, and she may find that her peers from outside her school are more suitable for friendships. In addition, groups like the Girl Scouts or Brownies will allow your daughter to improve her social skills and build confidence.

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      Understand your daughter's social preferences. Some children are naturally disposed to choosing friends in a careful manner so that they only have a few close friends instead of a large group of friends and acquaintances. If this is the case for your daughter, you do not need to be concerned, as it is natural. In addition, if your family has recently moved to a new school or environment, understand that your daughter may need to spend time becoming accustomed to her new environment and school before she feels comfortable approaching others and forming relationships. In short, make sure your daughter does in fact need help making friends before assisting her. Parents attempting to help their daughters establish relationships with peers before the daughters are ready may achieve the opposite result, instilling feelings of discomfort in these young females.

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