Friendship

Today we are going to talk about a fundamental issue in children's lives: friendship. When children grow up, they realize that they need some friends to feel good. Thanks to that, their self-esteem will be better, and by this way, their negative feelings will reduce significantly.

The relationships between people with the same age cause a good mental and personal development, and children become more autonomous and self-sufficient. Talking about our own experience, in the breaks we brought all the days the same objects, toys such as Album of stickers, Tamagotchi...  they were objects that we had in common with our friends to be accepted in our groups. We caught  insects discovering the environment by ourselves and we played a plenty of games to develop our creativity. (López, 2008)

Friendship is based on the cooperation, confidence and mutual help. “Children learn positive characteristics in their interactions with friends” (Delgado y Contreras, 2008). We worked the cooperation when we practised in breaks the ends of the course dances and theatres. We used our free time to get the best performance, to help each other to learn the dance. We got very involved: some of us, we downloaded the music, others invented the choreography, another one carried out the radio cassette player.

Between the ages of 6 and 12 years old, children live a very big emotional development in their friendships. In this stage, children leave individual games, and they start to copy the behaviour of their classmates, trying to find their role in the group. It is a very big step in children’s lives, because to have good friends is fundamental in order to foment good behaviour and to avoid bullying. (Renom, 2011)

When we had free time in the afternoon, we went to play with our friends and neighbours to some places which were near of our home, such as a playground, a square… We had to leave this routine when we progressed over the years because we had to do a lot of homework and we did not have time to go out in the afternoons.

Those who had school in the morning and in the afternoon, when we finished the afternoon classes we lived the most important moment in the day, we ate snacks with our classmates and then we played together in the schoolyard.

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References:

Renom, A. (2011). Educación emocional: programa para educación primaria (6-12 años). Madrid: Wolters Educación.

López, M. (2008). La integración de las habilidades sociales en la escuela como estrategia para la salud emocional. Psicología sin fronteras: revista electrónica de intervención psicosocial y psicología comunitaria, 3, 16-19

Delgado, B., Contreras, A. (2008) Desarrollo social y emocional. En C. Sánchez (Ed.), Psicología del desarrollo. Volumen 2: desde la infancia a la vejez (pp. 35-66). Madrid: McGRAW-HILL.

“Children learn positive characteristics in their interactions with friends” (Delgado y Contreras, 2008) is the literal translation of  “Los niños adscriben características positivas en sus interacciones con los amigos” (Delgado y Contreras, 2008).