Description
Learning to set and respect healthy boundaries is a key skill for building positive friendships. This resource supports young people in identifying their personal limits, understanding how to communicate them, and recognising when boundaries are crossed. Through simple scripts, reflective activities, and playful chat cards, children will explore what makes a friendship feel safe, respectful, and enjoyable.
What’s Included?
Understanding Friendship Boundaries
A young person friendly overview of what boundaries are and why they matter. Covers emotional, physical and social boundaries in friendships.
Topics include:
What are friendship boundaries?
Why do people have different boundaries?
Building respectful friendships
Friendship Scripts – “What Could I Say?”
Practical sentence starters and scripts to help children express their needs or respond when boundaries are crossed.
Use these scripts for role play, practising tone and body language in a safe environment.
Chat cards.
Promotes reflection and discussion around healthy and unhealthy dynamics.
Great for small group discussion or 1:1 sessions.
