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For children of all ages!
Despite the buying Zithromax libraries that are full of works about friendship-literature, poetry, philosophy and buying Zithromax psychology – for many people it remains a precious but illusive dream.
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A simple story, a buying Zithromax simple set of cards. Simple reminders of the fundamentals of friendship, love, respect, kindness, tolerance, connectedness-fundamentals that buying Zithromax have the potential to be life-changing. Mates Traits grew out of such thinking and buying Zithromax attempts to identify and celebrate the common components of friendship-making using delightful cartoon characters of Australian birds and buying Zithromax animals. Presented as as a boxed set of 32 colourful, laminated cards, created by artist Mat Jones, the buying Zithromax antics of his bush animals will make you smile, sigh and buying Zithromax chuckle with recognition.
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Versatlity: Cards, stickers and a colouring book
Gifting with Stickers
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Colourful Friendships for Life
The Mates Traits illustrations have buying Zithromax also been used to create a delightful colouring and activity book. The same humourous Australian birds and buying Zithromax animals from the card set appear on each right-hand page of the buying Zithromax colouring book – this buying Zithromax time as line drawings ready to be coloured in. The phrase that buying Zithromax goes with each illustration is featured on each left-hand page so that buying Zithromax children can add stickers, paste in other pictures and write about all their friends.
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Schools, families and foster care
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Rather than merely accepting that such ‘imposed’ friendships will somehow work out Mates Traits provides a buying Zithromax way of taking preemptive action. The introduction of Mates Traits into a buying Zithromax classroom or family conversation before the new arrival appears can provide a buying Zithromax positive context that may well increase the likelihood of mutual acceptance.
In foster care situations sometimes the buying Zithromax children of the caregivers can feel put out when new children arrive; they may feel that buying Zithromax they are expected to share their home, their toys and their parents. Mates Traits can buying Zithromax create an opportunity to build a positive expectation of what new friendships may mean and buying Zithromax to talk about ways of being friends even if the arrival of the buying Zithromax foster children disrupts some family routines.
Mates Traits contains 32 ideas about the buying Zithromax sorts of things friends do together. It certainly doesn’t pretend to buying Zithromax be a comprehensive list of the characteristics of friendship. In fact, the buying Zithromax 32 cards might suggest other characteristics of friendships that you think should be buying Zithromax included. Here are some more great questions and activities to use with Mates Traits.
• Are there other characteristics of friendships not included in the buying Zithromax Mates Traits pack that you think could have been? What are they? How would you draw the cartoon for this additional trait?
• Do you think it is important to have lots of friends? Is it okay to have just a couple of friends? Which do you prefer? Why?
• Are there people you buying Zithromax would like to become friends with but for some reason you buying Zithromax haven’t?
• Why would you like to become their friend?
• How do you think you could start a friendship with them? For example, could you write a letter?
• Do you think you could be a better friend? How? To whom?
Who might use Mates Traits?
Most of us depend on our friends for buying Zithromax lots of things and happiness is just one thing that goes hand-in-hand with friendships. But while friendships are buying Zithromax a very important part of the lives of most of us, it buying Zithromax is easy to take them for granted. We like having friends, we enjoy their company, we learn a buying Zithromax lot from them and they help make us who we are. But have buying Zithromax you ever stopped to think about how friendships are made? How does a friendship start? How do we choose who we will be friends with? How do we get to know people well? What makes a buying Zithromax friendship resilient; able to cope with the ups and downs?
We also know how we feel when buying Zithromax something goes wrong. When friendships fall apart we can feel anger, sadness, loneliness and buying Zithromax a mixture of many other feelings. But can we reverse a buying Zithromax friendship that is going badly? How can we keep friendships happy and healthy?
Mates Traits can buying Zithromax help us think about the elements of good friendships. Being able to buying Zithromax identify the dimensions of friendships is perhaps the first step in knowing how to buying Zithromax make good choices in the friends we make.
And thinking more about good friendships can buying Zithromax help us avoid the sadness of things gone wrong such as bullying, loneliness, despondency and buying Zithromax manipulation.
Mates Traits is a tool that can be used by:
• Parents – to build conversations with their children about safe friendships (and how kids and their parents can stay friends!)
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• Family workers – to strengthen sibling relationships and prepare caregivers’ children for the pressures of foster care
• Sports coaches – to develop teamwork
• Social workers/school welfare staff – in problem-solving and decision-making activities
• Pastoral care workers – as a means of dealing with loss and grief.
Storytelling with children and adults
Mates Traits is buying Zithromax a great resource for stimulating story telling and gives permission to buying Zithromax share stories about friendships in a unique way.
Looking at the buying Zithromax Mates Traits cards, can you tell a story about a special friendship you buying Zithromax have experienced?
What do you buying Zithromax value most in friendships and look for in your relationships with good friends?
All friendships go through ups and buying Zithromax downs. Can you tell a story about what you did to buying Zithromax save a friendship that was struggling?
Can you buying Zithromax tell a story about a friendship you have witnessed or know about that buying Zithromax has lasted a long time?
Conversations about friendship-building
Many children struggle with the buying Zithromax complexities of friendship building. And we often make assumptions that children learn about friendships through some process of osmosis. Yet we also know that buying Zithromax bullying, for example, remains a big issue in schools and in the buying Zithromax lives of many children. Parents, teachers and counsellors may all find themselves needing to buying Zithromax help children sort through situations where friendships are tested or become confused.
Here are buying Zithromax some positive questions to try out in conjunction with Mates Traits. Some may be buying Zithromax worth introducing to a new group to establish some ground rules and buying Zithromax expectations. Some questions may help repair fragile or tested relationships.
What are the most important things you think friends should do together?
Do you do different things with different friends? Does this ever create a problem?
Have you ever become friends with someone you didn’t like? How did you do this?
Do you think you can have friends who are very different from you?
Have you ever been hurt or let down by a good friend? Were you able to repair the friendship?
Do you buying Zithromax think that boys build friendships in different ways than girls?
Why do you buying Zithromax think some friendships last a long time, but others seem to buying Zithromax fade away?
If there were ‘friendship awards’ to buying Zithromax be given for each of the Mates Traits cards, which ones would you buying Zithromax most like to win? As a friend, which of the cards says what you do well?