Friendship Matters

What are some qualities of a good friend?

• Loyalty, honesty, empathy, and support

• Selfishness, insensitivity, unreliability, and negativity

• Jealousy, dishonesty, indifference, and criticism

• Betrayal, disloyalty, lack of empathy, and unsupportive

How can you resolve conflicts in a friendship?

• Gossiping about the conflict to other friends

• Communication, compromise, and understanding

• Getting angry and ending the friendship

• Ignoring the conflict and hoping it goes away

Why is communication important in a friendship?

• To gossip about others and spread rumors

• To ignore each other's feelings and opinions

• To compete with each other and show dominance

• To understand each other, resolve conflicts, and build trust.

What is empathy and why is it important in friendship?

• Empathy is the ability to feel only your own emotions and not care about others. It is important in friendship because it helps in being self-centered and selfish.

• Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of others. It is important in friendship because it helps in building trust, understanding, and support between friends.

• Empathy is the ability to control and manipulate the feelings of others. It is important in friendship because it helps in gaining power and influence over friends.

• Empathy is the ability to ignore and dismiss the feelings of others. It is important in friendship because it helps in asserting dominance and control over friends.

How can you build trust in a friendship?

• Being honest, reliable, and supportive

• Being secretive, unhelpful, and dishonest

• Ignoring, being untrustworthy, and unreliable

• Lying, being flaky, and unsupportive

What are some ways to deal with peer pressure in friendships?

• Give in to peer pressure to avoid conflict

• Pretend to agree with everything your friends say

• Communicate openly and honestly with your friends

• Ignore your friends and their opinions

Name three qualities of a good friend.

• Competitiveness, arrogance, indifference

• Unreliability, insensitivity, disloyalty

• Trustworthiness, supportiveness, understanding

• Jealousy, dishonesty, selfishness

Explain the importance of communication in a friendship.

• Communication is important for understanding, resolving conflicts, and building trust.

• Conflict in friendship is healthy and doesn't require communication

• Communication is not important in friendship

• Friendship can survive without communication

How can you show empathy towards your friends?

• By telling them to just get over it and stop being so sensitive

• By actively listening to their concerns, offering support, and being understanding of their feelings.

• By ignoring their concerns and changing the subject

• By making fun of their feelings and not taking them seriously

What are some strategies to resolve conflicts in a friendship?

• Open communication, active listening, compromise, seeking professional help if needed

• Spreading rumors and gossiping about the friend

• Getting physical and resorting to violence

• Ignoring the conflict and hoping it goes away on its own