The Children’s Society published a report stating that 1 in 10 children aged 10 to 15 report often feeling lonely. The report highlights some of the issues which might contribute to this such as punishment practices involving isolation and exclusion, decrease in support in the classroom, bullying,…

Friendship is essentially an interpersonal relationship of mutual affection. Even animals such as female vampire bats are known to have kinship-style friendships! Friendship is very important to young children and the making of a child’s first independent friend is one of life’s rites of passage. Aristotle…