7.

Settle conflict with and among friends

Friendships are important at every stage in life. Although friends can positively affect
your emotional well-being and social development, conflict with friends is often a
source of stress and frustration. How you manage disagreements with your friends
influences the quality of the friendship. Understanding the components of a good
friendship and developing skills for maintenance of and conflict resolution in a
friendship can help you avoid frequent arguments and resolve conflicts when they do
occur.
Moore, A. (2020). About Conflict Between You & Your Friend. Retrieved from
https://oureverydaylife.com/conflict-between-friend-12768.html

A study published in the "Journal of Family Psychology" found that conflicts among
teenage friends can contribute to failure in school, withdrawal and delinquency. Other
side effects of conflict for all age groups are anxiety, depression, difficulty with other
interpersonal relationships and loss of the friendship. It is important to move past
conflict so that your friendship can continue.
Fiese,B. (2020). Journal of Family Psychology. Volume 34, Issue 7

8. Handle boy-girl relationship

Handling Girl-boy friendships matter. It gives chance to explore themselves outside of
constrictive gender scripts, and, ideally, question stereotype and can help undo some of
these socialized gender constraints.  Handling friends of the opposite gender helps you
to learn how to socialise properly and gain respect for one another.
Yi, L. (2018). 5 tips to help junior build healthy boy-girl friendships. Retrieved from:
https://www.smartparents.sg/child/social-life-skills/5-tips-help-junior-build-healthy-boy-
girl-friendships

9. Handle peer-pressure
Making decisions on your own is hard enough, but when other people get involved and
try to pressure you one way or another it can be even harder. It is tough to be the only
one who says "no" to peer pressure, but you can do it. Paying attention to your own
feelings and beliefs about what is right and wrong can help you know the right thing to
do and it will help you to handle peer pressure. Inner strength and self-confidence can
help you stand firm, walk away, and resist doing something when you know better.
Lyness, D. (2015). Dealing With Peer Preasure. Retrieved from:
https://kidshealth.org/en/kids/peer-pressure.html
10. Deal effectively with the bullies.
In dealing to bullies, it's important to tell someone if you're being bullied or feeling
unsafe. If you're in a school situation, tell someone with higher authority such as a
teacher or tell your parents. A guidance counselor may also be able to help you. If
you're at work, don't be afraid to bring it to the HR department or to another team
member that you trust who might be able to help.
Seunagal, G. (2020) How to Deal With Bullies Effectively. Retrieved from:
https://www.betterhelp.com/advice/bullying/how-to-deal-with-bullies-effectively/
Being bullied is a stressful experience – in fact it is one of the most stressful
experiences we can face. International research shows bullying occurs in every school.
We now better understand that bullying is physically, socially and psychologically
damaging, with the hurt extending beyond just the victim to the bully and the bystanders
who witness the activity as well. As such, we have to develop techniques to help
students cope with bullying, including cyberbullying. An important element of dealing
bullies is encouraging victims to tell someone. It shows that this is the number one
coping strategy reported as the tactic they would most recommend to students. Victims
are encouraged to speak to their parents or guardians. Some schools have developed
peer-support systems to counsel or advise other pupils.

Slee, P. (2014). How to handle bullies

Retrieved from: https://theconversation.com/how-to-handle-bullies-28149