The document discusses the significance of positive peer relationships in early childhood for developing social-emotional skills essential for friendship and school engagement. It outlines various types of peer relationships, their impacts on self-esteem and behavior, and identifies negative signs of friendship, emphasizing the roles of parents and teachers in fostering healthy connections. The conclusion underscores the critical need for socialization and the collaborative efforts necessary to promote positive relationships among children.

1. Positive Peer
Relationship
Presenter
Letesha Gooden

2. Introduction
Under optimal conditions, children learn core social-
emotional skills during the early childhood years that
enable them to establish and maintain their first
friendships, get along well as members of their peer
communities, and participate effectively in school.
Children who are delayed in their acquisition of these
social-emotional competencies are at heightened risk for
significant peer problems and behavioural

3. difficulties when they enter Primary schoolwhich
can escalate to more serious emotional
difficulties and antisocial behaviours in
adolescence. Hence, promoting social-emotional
development during the Early childhood years is a
priority.

4. Objectives
At the end of this class students should be
able to:
•Know who is a friend
•Identify the trait of a good friend and bad
friends
•Know the different types of friends

5. What is a peer relationship
A peer group is both a social group and
a primary group of people who have similar
interests, age, background, or social status. The
members of this group are likely to influence the
person’s beliefs and behaviour.[1] Peer groups
contain hierarchies and distinct patterns of
behavior.

6. The important of Positive peer
relationship
The importance of peer relationship is to help
in a healthy development. Theorist such as,
Vygotsky have stated that peer relationships
provide a unique context for cognitive, social,
and emotional development.

7. Types of Peer Relationship
Friendships
Casual
Close
Platonic
Cliques
Gang
Dating Relationships

8. Casual Friends
Casual friends are peers with
whom you feel socially
connected. (These friendships,
however, do not fill some of the
deeper needs humans have.)

9. Close friends
A close friend is more likely to share with you what
he or she is really feeling and thinking and, in turn,
make you feel comfortable doing the same. A close
friends share common belief / interest and values.

10. Platonic friends
A platonic friendship is a
relationship with a member of
the opposite gender in which
there is affection, but no
sexual activity.

11. Clique
clique this is a small
close-knit group of
people who do not
readily allow others to
join them.

12. Gang
A gang is a group of
youngsters or adolescents who associate
closely, often exclusively, for social reasons, these
type of group normally engage in
delinquent behavior.

13. Dating relationship
A dating relationship is defined as a romantic or
intimate social relationship between two
individuals that is determined by the facts in
each case, such as the length of the relationship,
the type of the relationship, the frequency of
interaction between the two individuals
involved in the relationship.

14. Dating relationship

15. Negative sign of
Friendship
◦ Low self-esteem in adolescence is associated
with:
Poorer mental and physical health
Worse economic prospects
Higher levels of criminal behaviour

16. Negative sign of
Friendship
The Taker: The taker is a type of friend will try to
possess what you have and acquire your
achievements in order to satisfy his or her envy and
greed. This type of a person will try to sneak behind
your back to either steal money or your significant
other, and he or she will feel no remorse about doing
so. This type of person needs to be completely cut
off.

17. Negative sign of
Friendship
Stressor: If you have a friend who always stresses
you out with his or her actions or words, then
this is a sign of a bad friend. A true friend should
never make you feel stressed out. Stress also
includes the feeling that you always need to
please the other person because that person
makes you feel that way.

18. Negative sign of
Friendship
Chaotic: A friend who loves to cause chaos or
takes pleasure in seeing chaos with other people
is not a friend at all.

19. Negative sign of
Friendship
Gossip: A person who talk about other people behind
their backs. gossips to you about everyone will make
you believe that he or she is your best friend. Do not
be fooled. If this person gossips to you about others,
then he or she certainly gossips about you.

20. Negative sign of
Friendship
Bossy: A person who order you around, do not be
fooled by someone who bosses you around and tells
you what to do or how to do it. There are many
people who hang around bossy people and think that
they are their friends; this is wrong. A bossy person is
not a good friend

21. Negative Effects of
Friendship
• Low self esteem
• Abuse
mentally
physically
emotionally
• Negative peer pressure

22. Positive Signs of friendship
•They practice forgiveness
•They make the friendship a priority
•They support each other through their adversity
•They listen to each others
•They tell each other when they are wrong

23. Positive effects of friendship
High Self-Esteem
◦ Girls’ self-esteem tends to decline during
adolescence, while boys’ self-esteem increases
Self identity strengthen
Love and appreciate their self
Know when to say no
•Positive peer pressure

24. Parents roll in aiding
positive peer relationship
•Practice authorative (not authoritarian)
parenting
•Teach kids how to converse in a polite way
•Foster empathy and sympathetic concern for
others.
•Monitor kids’ social life
•Watch out for bullying

25. Teachers roll in aiding
positive peer relationship
Some ways to help children build
friendships and social skills include teaching
them to:
•be aware of the personal space of others.
•Practice making and maintaining eye
contact during conversations.
.

26. Teachers roll in aiding
positive peer relationship
•Try not to control the discussion.
•Think twice before speaking.
•Allow others to finish speaking before
beginning to talk.
•Always be courteous say please and thank
you.

27. Conclusion
It has seen where the importance of peer
relationship is evitable for the proper
development of a child. Theorist has also agree
the dept of how it can affect individual when
the absent of socialization take place. However
this can be foster by peers, parents and
teachers.

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