Can You Have Compassion for your Child’s Unlikable Friends?
Let us be honest here—we are not going to like all of the friends and peers that our children interact with. That would be a lot to expect from ourselves! There are going to be children whose manners we don’t like, who do not have healthy boundaries, who may talk or play rudely, or for whatever other reason, we just do not like them. As the adult, however, we have the challenge and opportunity of choosing how to react. There always seems to be that one child in the neighborhood who we would rather not have to interact with. The … Continue reading