This presentation focuses on picking and choosing friends who you know you can trust, with whom you can grow, and with whom you enjoy spending time. In these times when peer pressure is at an all-time high, it is necessary to inform them about choices in life from which they can choose, including friends. This discussion dives into the pressures associated with drinking and drugs and why people choose to escape through these outlets. It addresses the signs of a good, respectable person and what to look for when choosing friends. Many examples will be given to children and they have to make choices during the presentations and explain to their peers why they have made this choice.
Friendships combine a balanced sense of giving and taking.
Strategies and techniques are given to the children on how to go about locating that ideal friend and also dropping certain friends who no longer make you happy and are not growing with you. In regards to losing friends, the children will be shown how a separation between friends can be viewed as a positive experience. All types of friendships will be discussed including friendships with their classmates, teachers, siblings, parents, relatives, and other people in their lives. During the talk, the instructor will give examples from his own life, based on what transpired when he was growing up as a kid in New Jersey. As always, a question and answer period is offered to the children.