1. Safe and Healthy Friendships

2. Peer Relationships  These relationships can play an important role in your health and well-being.  As you get older, your social groups expand.

3. Attributes of Friends Similar values, interests, beliefs, and attitudes Open and honest communication Sharing of joys, disappointments, dreams, and concerns Mutual respect, caring, and support Concern about each other

4. 3 Types of Friends  Casual and Close  Platonic  Online

5. Casual and Close  Casual-someone with whom you share interests but not deep emotional bonds.  Close-have strong emotional ties to each other. You feel comfortable sharing your thoughts, feelings, and experiences.

6. Platonic Friendships  Friendship with a member of the opposite gender in which there is an affection, but the two are not considered a couple.  “Were just friends!”

7. Online Friendships  Can be rewarding because you can get to know people from other parts of the world.  Can be dangerous as well because people lie.

8. Problems in Friendships  Cliques  Envy or Jealousy  Changes in friendship

9. Cliques  A small circle of friends who exclude people viewed as outsiders.  Exclude others by showing prejudice.

10. Managing Feelings of Envy or Jealousy  These feelings can harm a friendship.  Ask yourself these questions if you feel jealous…..  What is making me feel jealous?  Is my friend deliberately trying to make me feel this way?  Are these feelings more important than our friendship?

11. Changes in friendship  As you grow older you and a close friend might spend less time together and develop new interests.

12. Activity for today  Students will choose 2 movies or TV shows they are familiar with that have a friendship displayed.  Then analyze the friendship to see if it is healthy or unhealthy based on our class discussion of healthy relationships.

13. Cliques: Good or Bad??  10 Things I Hate About You Part 1 – YouTube 10 Things I Hate About You Part 1 – YouTube  Answer the following question:  In what ways can cliques be good and when can they be bad? Explain your reasons.