4 ingredients of friendship (FHMS magazine)

There are many things one need to know about Friendship that many are unaware of. Below are the 4 important ingredients to friendship ;

1.Openness 
Every friendship begins with some sign that two people are interested in becoming friends. So, the first ingredient for making friends involves showing that we like someone and expressing openness to friendship with them.
2. Greetings
A very simple way to show openness is to greet potential friends. Shy children often trouble with this if another child says “Hi” to them, they tend to look away and say nothing or just murmur in response. This happen because they feel awkward and self conscious but the message that they’re sending to the other is “I don’t like you” or “we can’t be friends”. Though they don’t feel that way but that is what they’re communicating. Children should learn how to greet people they see and also, respond to greetings.
3. Compliments
This is another easy way to signal openness to friendship. It feels good to receive a sincere compliment, and we tend to like people who can appreciate our good qualities. Kids should compliments their classmates, you can keep it simple by saying “I like the way you drew this diagram” “your shoes are fine”.

4. Kindness
Small kindness can be another way to signal liking. This could mean lending a pencil to a classmate, helping them carrying something. Kindness brings out kindness, and it’s one of the best ways to begin friendship.  Kind children are usually well liked by peers.
Kindness is defined by impact not intent. You don’t have to insist that a person should play only with you because of your act.