The Not-So-Friendly Friend: How to Set Boundaries for Healthy Friendships

I have a 4 years old little girl and she has a friend. As i have only 1 child i dont have so much experience what to do with bully little kids. And what should i tell them to teach the right way. But when families involve it’s difficult to teach how to behave someone s kids. I was looking for option what should i teach my child to protect herself being bullied. This book sort of gave me an idea what should i tell my child. Its a good book.

A beautiful book that encourages values of equality, kindness & friendship! I personally believe that humility is realisation of equality. We are as vulnerable and proficient as others. The aspects of our vulnerability and proficiency might differ. In a world that tries to burden the good one with unrealistic expectations, this serves as a good reminder to value oneself just as others. Right place to start!

The book may be nice - however, to buy this book you need to be insane. The idea of introducing the concept of bullying can be only afforded by the rich cuz not everyone can afford a 1000 rs side book! Publishers definitely need some sense as they launch a product.

The author has narrated the story and the theme in it in a understandable manner with cute Illustrations. I loved it a overall. Book with beautiful meaning in it indeed.

Great for our innocent children who believe everyone is a friend, and don’t differentiate between true friends and children who hurt them. If your young child has regular interactions with another child, in daycare or kindy, that consistently chooses hurtful behaviours or words, this book is an empathetic social story that your child will understand. It’s about a girl who starts school, plays kind with everyone, uses her words and not her body during conflict. There’s one child who almost always behaves unkind towards her. At first she tries harder to be friends, but every interaction leaves her feeling really small and upset. She comes to understand this friend is actually NOT a friend, bc friends don’t make you feel that way. She decides to set clear boundaries and this is where we see the author teach the reader some empathy towards the aggressing child. The main character’s clear boundaries are: 1. She tells the other child, when they want to play with kindness, she will happily play with them. 2. But when the child chooses to behave unkind, she will tell them to go somewhere else and why. 3. When they are ready to treat her with kindness again, they are invited to join. 4. She will not tolerate them treating others unkind either and will step in. 5. If using her words doesn’t stop their behaviour, she will get help with a safe adult, like a teacher. 6. She will stick to playing with true friends who make her feel good. This book is helping my child realize the boy in class who hurts him daily, is actually not a friend, despite my child still trying to play with him every day. It’s helpful the books is a school setting, but I have found my son is now recognizing cousin’s, just like classmates, are not automatically his friend. If anyone is hurting you on purpose, via throwing things at you, punching you, head butting you, then lying to adults about their behaviour, thus making you feel sad, frustrated and small after interacting with them, they are NOT a friend.

I love this book. It clicked for my 7 year old daughter who is starting to have some not so friendly friends. I love the ending which explains boundaries. It helped me help explain to her and we practiced boundaries. I could feel her feel empowered and better. Great book.

What a fabulous visual way to explain setting boundaries and how to go about it! I loved the visuals and how they elevated the story by making the friend bigger/smaller when they were not being a nice friend. Great resources/ info at the end!

Es un libro genial que contribuye a enseñar a un niño a poner límites y no permitir que lo acosen o lo traten mal.

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