PRACTICE PACK
PK02
Tweens: Friendship and Emotions
Make room for feelings. Choose your next move.
Seven resources for ages 10–12 explore peer moments, assumptions, and support. A fictional group-chat example, response rehearsal, and optional connection practice build a sequence that respects privacy.
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A sequence you can adapt
Choose the pages that fit. The sequence is optional; it is not a complete treatment protocol.
- Understand
A Peer Moment Has More Than One Part
Separate events, feelings, guesses, and choices in an everyday peer situation.
- See a fictional example
Jordan and the Unanswered Message
See a fictional tween check a guess and choose a manageable response.
- Explore
Facts, Feelings, and My Next Choice
Sort a manageable friendship moment and choose a response within your control.
- Rehearse
Try the Conversation Before You Need It
Practice a clear request and a safe exit from a low-stakes peer conversation.
- Practice between sessions
One Low-Pressure Connection
Plan a small, optional friendship action that leaves room for a no.
- Reflect and review
What Kind of Connection Fits Me?
Review a peer interaction or a missed plan and identify a useful adjustment.
- Prepare to facilitate
Facilitating Tween Peer Work
Support reflection about peer relationships while protecting choice and privacy.
Facilitator guidance
Use fictional peer situations until a tween chooses otherwise. Distinguish uncertainty or ordinary disagreement from harassment, discrimination, threats, or a power imbalance that needs adult action.