Making Sense of
Your Child's Friendships

Friendships are desperately important to most children, but they can be a cause of great distress as well as happiness, and raise many worries for parents.

Focusing on the years up to twelve, this reassuring and accessible book offers parents a rare insight into children’s friendships that will help them to understand and support their child with confidence.

It explores subjects such as:
     • How friendships change throughout childhood
     • Different kinds of friendships
     • Typical differences between boys' friendships
       and girls' friendships
     • Common problems and what you can do to help
     • When to intervene and when to leave well alone

Elizabeth Hartley-Brewer, an expert on child development and parenting issues, draws on real-life examples from children and parents she has interviewed.

‘Full of insight, this book illuminates a neglected yet central feature of our children’s lives.’
Professor Richard Layard,
author of Happiness: Lessons from a New Science

Listen to Elizabeth Hartley-Brewer on Woman's Hour, Radio 4 talking about children's friendships – click here.

"An interesting and well-researched book with a leaning towards positive parenting."
The Green Parent