Kelsey Pomeroy on Instagram: "How are you teaching your kids to be a good friend? Originally Posted this one year ago and playing this game with my sons has helped so much! You don’t have to lie or pretend to like something you don’t, but it’s also not necessary to loudly declare our dislike for someone else’s favorite things, especially when we’re trying to build friendships. My son is six, and I wish we’d started practicing this earlier, around the time his logic skills began developing at age

@abbyintelligence on Instagram: "You don’t owe the world full access to who you are. There’s a version of you that deserves to stay private, protected, and untouched by opinions that were never meant to shape you in the first place. Some people only know the parts you’ve shown them. Some only know the assumptions they made. But the truth is, most people don’t actually know you.. And that’s not a flaw. That’s self-preservation. There comes a point where you stop proving, stop explaining, and star