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Child Behavior (Expert Forum)
friends at seven
Answered by
Kevin Kennedy, Ph.D. - Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, Family Therapy, Crisis Intervention
Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates
This forum is for questions and support regarding child behavior issues such: Child Discipline (behavior management), Normal Child Development, Parent-Child Communications, Social Development
Doctor's Answer
by Kevin Kennedy, Ph.D., May 19, 2008 07:30AM
, May 19, 2008 07:30AM
By the age of seven, most children can identify peers with whom they have a friendship. But the context is important. That is, it is not unusual for children to have friends at school with whom they might have a 'stronger' bond than they have with children they might know from a different context (e.g., neighborhood, YMCA, church). Encourage your son to gravitate at school to the people he identifies as friends there.
