Teaching Kids How To Be A Good Friend | Friendship Lessons For Kids (K–5)

Do you have a lot of friends? I mean, do you have a lot of friends? Do you have good friends? It's okay to have friends, but the better question is this, how to be a good friend? Not necessarily collect a bunch of friends, but how do you be a good friend? Hello, I'm Mr. Brown, and today I want to talk about being a good friend, because being a good friend is a choice, and when you make better choices, you will live a better life, so choose well. One day I was at a school, and this little kid came up to me during recess and said, Mr. Brown, nobody wants to be my friend. I don't have any friends, and I said, really, why is that? He said, because nobody wants to play all the games I want to play. I said, do they sometimes play the games you play? Yeah. Do you ever play the games that they want to play? No, because I want to play the games I want to play, and honestly, I can understand what that feels like, because sometimes I want my way and nobody else's way, just my way, but that's not being a good friend. See, being a good friend is caring about other people, too. Let's put it this way. Friends think about friends. Yeah, think about it. Friends think about friends, not just themselves. Sometimes it can be easy to be selfish, don't think about me, me, me, me, me, what I want, I want this, I want that, I want to go here, and when people go along with it, it feels good, but do you ever think about what they want? See, a good friend thinks about themselves, but also their friends. You think about what your friends want, and sometimes what your friends don't want, and to be a good friend means sometimes you have to take the second choice. Let's say you want to go to recess together with your friend, and you want to go down the slide, but they want to go in the monkey bars. Well, can you go in the monkey bars with them sometimes, and take the second best choice, because you want to be your friend? Really think about that, as you want to be a good friend, because it's one thing to collect a bunch of people to be your friends, but are you being a good friend? Let me tell you a story about my kids. When my kids were much younger, they would buy us birthday gifts and Christmas gifts that they wanted to play with. They were really thinking about themselves, and not us, but now that they're older, they think about what it is that we might like. You know what? That's something you can do to be a good friend. You can think about your friends, because friends think about friends, so I want you to think about that, as you become a good friend, and it's a choice. When you make better choices, you will live a better life, so choose well, and be a good friend. Oh yeah. Peace.