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Friends and friendship and how we make and keep friends always provide an interesting study. These two words – friend and friendship, are historically difficult to define and the idea of making and keeping friends across age and gender barriers has always been examined with great interest. ... ” (539) As far as defining friends, people usually come up with a circular definition much like the example on page 539 – “Why is he your friend” a young child was asked, the boy responded by saying “I like him . ... Reward-cost stage (Grades 2-3): Children expect friends to offer help, share common a activities, provide stimulating ideas, be able to join in organized play, offer judgments, be physically nearby, and be demographically similar to them. ... Normative Stage (Grades 4-5): Children now expect friends to accept and admire them to bring loyalty and commitment to a friendship, and to express similar values and attitudes toward rules and sanctions. ... Empathic Stage (Grades 6-7): Children begin to expect genuineness and the potential for intimacy in their friends; they expect friends to understand them and be willing to engage in self-disclosure; they want friends to accept their help, to share common interests, and to hold similar attitudes and values. ... Smollar and Younis have analyzed how children view obligations through friendship and have concluded that at different ages children experience the following feelings of friendship obligation
10-11 80 percent of children believe that friends should be nice to one another and help each other and only 11 percent of kids aged 16-17 saw helping one another as a “central” obligation of friendship.
Approximate Word count = 1234
Approximate Pages = 4.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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