Healthy Relationships and Connection
How to Help Children and Adults Build Friendships and Connection
- Resources
- Healthy Relationships and Connection
Helpful Resources
- 3 Ways to Help Get Your Teen to Open Up by Dr. Lisa Damour (Unicef)
- Teens Open Up At Night. Parents Should Embrace That by Dr. Lisa Damour (Washington Post)
- How To Help Your Teen Manage A Meltdown by Dr. Lisa Damour (Unicef)
- How to Help a Child Who Feels Ostracized/Left Out by Their Friends Caroline Maguire
- How To Help A Child With Anxiety Make New Friends Caroline Maguire
- Article from NPR "America has a loneliness epidemic. Here are 6 steps to address it".
- Handout on "Authoritative Parenting" and "Attachment and Connection"
Forming friendships involves adjusting what we say and how we say it based on the feedback we get from the other person.
— Caroline Maguire, Why Will No One Play With Me?: The Play Better Plan to Help Kids Make Friends and Thrive