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Navigating a new school and making new friends can be a daunting experience for any young child and their parents and the transition is not always easy.
As they grow older, friendships slowly become more reciprocal.
While finding friends can happen naturally and with ease for some children, there are things parents and schools can do to help facilitate these relationships if a child is finding the process difficult.
1. Check in with them It s important to try and let children make friends themselves, says Natasha Wardman, lecturer in Education Studies at the Australian Catholic University.
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When Rahila was moved to mainstream classes later in high school, meeting the local students made her feel born once again.
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Do all your friends look like you? Do they all think like you?
Sometimes our schools, our communities and our social media make it so easy to be surrounded by people who are almost clones of us.
And given we are awesome, that s great, right?
It is human nature to find a sense of safety and validation in like-minded people, says Dr Helen Forbes-Mewett, deputy director of the Monash Migration and Inclusion Centre.
But it can also be a recipe for stagnating personal growth, says Relationships Australia NSW CEO Elisabeth Shaw.
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Los Angeles-based comic actor and writer Tom DeTrinis new one-man show,
Making Friends, streaming through January 18, is the latest link in a director-actor daisy chain that began with Michael Urie s terrific 2013 Off-Broadway turn in
Buyer and Cellar as Alex More, the fictional custodian of Barbra Streisand s very-much-real Malibu bunker, which houses her collection of costumes, art and objets de décor. (Urie best known for his role in
Ugly Betty and his stalwart queer activism brought that show to the Curran in 2014).
Urie went on to direct
Bright Colors and Bold Patterns, another very gay hit Off-Broadway monologue, written and performed by Drew Droege. Droege hilariously embodies a jabber-jawed gay man in his forties who is unable to cope with the post-Obergfell reality of queer weddings and his own deep sense of estrangement from assimilation. In the assistant director s chair was Tom DeTrinis. DeTrinis also directed another Droege solo comedy,