Helping a Friend With Something Major... Might Mean Getting Your Own Help From a Trusted Adult
Sometimes it’s uncomfortable talking to friends directly about our concerns. Other times their problems feel really big… so big that you might need an adult to help you figure out what to do or say...
OOMLA Kindness 101: Click here to read about the facts, the forms, and the functions of kindness in the eyes of OOMLA...
Strategies for Checking in on Someone When You're Worried About Them
A friend might be going through a hard time, maybe they’re struggling in a hard class or they didn’t get cast in the school musical, maybe they got a bad haircut or they are arguing with another fr...
Popularity can be confusing because it is so hard to measure and because different things make people popular at different times. When kids are young, someone might be popular because she has reall...
Healthy and Unhealthy Friendships
Friendships, like other relationships in our lives, can grow and change all the time. We can often feel incredible pressure to have a BFF or to be part of the popular crowd, but we will all choose ...
Social Media: Comparing Our Insides to Other People's Outsides
Comparing ourselves to our friends or to people we see on social media can sometimes make us feel badly. We worry that everyone else is prettier, thinner, or smarter than we are. We believe that th...
What to Say to a Friend Who Has Upset You When There’s Drama
It can be really hard to confront a friend who has caused upset, hurt feelings or exclusion. It’s common to worry that talking to a friend about this will make them mad. The idea of a friend being ...