Grade 5- Friendship Formation

• Friendship Formation is the process of making and maintaining friends.

• Friendship is an integral part of human life because human beings are social beings.

• There is a need for people to be very careful on how they choose their friends.

Peer Influence

• Peer influence is the effect your friends or age mates have on your behavior.

• We should be keen when choosing friends since they influence our behavior.

• Bad friends and groups can ruin our lives.

• Peer influence is the strong pressure to an individual to adopt the attitude, values, behavior and thoughts of his or her peer group.

Qualities of a Good Friend.

Read 1 Thessalonians 5:11 and Galatians 6:2.

1. Friends should help one another.

2. A good friend should encourage his or her friends.

3. Friends should help carry one another’s burdens.

4. He should be caring.

5. He should be loving.

6. A good friend should be truthful.

7. He or she should be kind.

8. He or she should be compassionate.

9. Should be one who is humble.

10. A good friend should be respectful and responsible.

Values useful in maintaining good friends.

The useful values in maintaining good friends are;

1. Honesty

2. Trust

3. Caring

4. Obedience

5. Respectful

6. Selflessness

7. Kindness

8. Truthful

9. Loving

10. Peace

11. Thankfulness

12. humility
    

Causes of Poor Choice of Friends at Home and School.

1. Low self-esteem.

2. The desire to prove oneself to others.

3. Lack of proper role models to emulate.

4. Failure to obey the school rules.

5. Failure to obey God’s commandments.

Good Friendship

1. Teaches us how and when to forgive.

2. Help us deal with stress.

3. Help us during our difficult times.