Healthy Frienships

Max and Bree have really different personalities, but they don’t try to change each other. They like being different because it makes it more fun.

• Balanced Friendship

• Accepting

• None

• They are not friends

Janie likes being around Izzy because Izzy is popular, but she feels like she has to be a certain way for Izzy to like her. Janie feels like she has to change her personality and her interests to fit in.

• Balanced

• Accepting

• Not Accepting

• Great friendship

Faith and Ariana have a lot of fun together, but Faith is always in charge of what they do. If Faith doesn’t get her way, she sometimes gets other kids to not play with Ariana.

• Balanced

• Accepting

• Bad friendship

• Not balanced

Adrien and George trust each other. Sometimes they argue but they know that they can talk things out calmly each time they argue.

• Nothing we talked about

• Unpredictable

• Predictable

• George is always right

Nadia has fun with Rayna sometimes. Sometimes Rayna will ignore her and and say bad things about Rayna. The next day they are friends. What kind of friendship is this

• Unpredictable

• Predictable

• Same as every friend in 5th grade

• Great friendship

A healthy friendship is....

• Balanced, Accepting, Predictable, and has boundaries

• One where people gossip and spread rumors

• Not possible

• Results in people 'taking sides' with only people they like.

An example of a broken boundary is....

• Someone who is okay when you play with a different friend.

• Someone who gets mad all of the time.

• Someone telling you how they feel

• Someone pressuring you to do something you don't want to do.

Greyson kept pressuring Ethan to say mean things to a kid he didn't like. Ethan didn't want to say those things but did anyway so he could keep the friendship. Greyson was breaking this friendship boundary...

• Nothing wrong with doing this

• comfort level

• privacy

• individuality