Minor Issues: How to nurture kids' ability to make friends
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Making friends is not a social-emotional competency that can be taken for granted, even for adults.
ST PHOTO: KELVIN CHNG
SINGAPORE - Since our youngest son J, seven, started Primary 1 this year, our main concern as parents has been whether he has made any friends.
As the weeks progressed, we were reassured. J was able to name the new friends he made, besides those who joined him from kindergarten last year. Based on what he tells us about them, there is a mix of gender and race.
