How to Make & Keep Friends

Without a guide to help address these changes, they can easily become overwhelming and stressful for teens, parents and caregivers. Best-selling authors and social-emotional learning experts, Nadine Briggs, Director of Simply Social Kids, and Donna Shea, Founder of The Peter Pan Center for Social & Emotional Growth, are not only in-demand for their work with children, but are themselves mothers. Aimed at helping teens and parents navigate these precarious and critical years, they have co-authored the How to Make and Keep Friends Series, which includes their practical and enormously helpful new book, Tips for Teens on Life and Social Success.“Our goal in writing this book was to help make the social journey through the teenage years an easier one for you” says Briggs. “This time in your life can feel both exciting and difficult.” Shea adds, “We wrote this book as a reference guide.”  “We did not intend for it to be read cover to cover.”  Written in four sections: Self, Others, Online and Social Media and The Bigger World of College, Work, and Adulthood Briggs and Shea address key teen topics such as: hygiene, sleep, self-confidence, managing strong feelings, lack of motivation, fitting in, changing friendships, annoying friends, sibling rivalry, dating and sexuality, bullying, meanness, cyber bullying, gaming, telephone etiquette, interviewing, professional conduct and work ethic. Unlike other social-emotional curriculums, Briggs and Shea use common, everyday language and relatable examples that serve as tools in ongoing dialogue with your teen.  The categories and numbered lists make the book a true guide to refer back to as the inevitable challenges will re-occur.