Tips

Here are some tips for basic friendship. You sure will enjoy reading these, and maybe you will even use one.

• For making new friends:

1. Join a sports team. Being part of a team is great way to make new friends.
2. Try out for a school play. If you like to sing and dance, you would be having fun and making new friends!
3. Become a member of a club. Many schools have clubs for photography, writing, and other hobbies.
4. Take a class, in dance, art, or karate-find something that you'd like to learn more about.
5. Volunteer at day care centers, homeless shelter, etc. 

• Ways to hit off with a new friend:

1. Talk about your pets, if she has one she may start chatting right away.
2. Tell her jokes.
3. Talk about common hobbies.
4. Talk about fashion, if she's a real glamour, she may be just what you were looking for.
5. Maybe you both could do a ''getting to know you project''.
6. Compliment her.

• Five ways to hold on to a friend:

1. Make constructive comments.
2. Cover your mouth before you say what you think.
3. You should know when she has to be left alone......or when she needs to talk(privately).
4. Practice saying, ''I'm sorry''

• Ways to lose a friend:

1. Disappear into thin air, when she needs you.
2. Criticize her every time and her other friends too.
3. Be bossy and try to make her plans.
4. Always point out how perfect you are.
5. Flirt with the boy she likes.
6. Don't return her phone calls.
7. Don't save her a seat at lunch.
8. Tease her, especially in public.
9. If she tells you a secret, get it published in your school newspaper.

• Surviving when a friend lets you down:

1. Treat yourself to a sundae or ice-cream.
2. Call up your other friends to have some fun together.
3. She does not deserve your friendship.

• Dealing with two friends in an argument:

1. Never take sides, but do say what you think.
2. Tell a few jokes.
3. Invite both over for a snack, and a chat.
4. Act as a messenger and add good comments of your own.

• Boost a friend mood:

1. Take her out to a walk.
2. Take her to your special place.
3. Give her a treat.
4. Listen to your favorite song together.

• When your parents don't like one of your friends:

1. Get your mom to know her better.
2. Ask help from someone, who has been through this.
3. Defend her at all costs.
4. Ask them the reason for it.