It is heartbreaking to have your child come home from school telling you that he has no friends. At first, you don't believe him. You say that surely it was just a bad day. However, after a time, you come to realize that he truly feels he has no friends. You want to step in - you try to step in ... but there is so little you can do to help the situation. Until now! This book will really help. There are specific suggestions and very down to earth ideas for helping your child make better friends and learn to be a better friend. It is actually true that a good friend is hard to find, but this book attempts to make it easier.

My daughter as a young child had great difficulty interacting with other children. How to get her to socialize was something I attempted but never accomplished really. I wish this book has been around then. Good Friends Are Hard to Find is a book for parents to learn how to strengthen their child's socializing skills and how to solve problems with other children they may be in contact with. This is an excellent book that will keep your child from ever being alone again due to low socializing skills. The book is easy to follow and the stp by step approach is very logical.

My son had trouble interacting with other children. When we would be at a park or outing he would spend his time glued to mommy’s side. I had picked up this book in hopes of encouraging him to leave the nest so to speak and make friends. Like any parent I wanted my child to fit in with his peers. Unfortunately by the time I read this he was already in school and getting along fine so I didn’t have a chance to apply the advice on him and see if it worked. It had some good points, but nothing great in my opinion and some of the advice I did not agree with. The scripts he provides can be useful for those who do not know how to communicate with their children, but for those that have open communication it can be a bit of a turnoff. I don’t need a script to talk to my kids so it was of little use to me. However the section on dealing with teasing, bullying, and meanness was of more use as there was an incident recently with my oldest at school.

This is a really great book, that helps teach people how to teach their children (and perhaps themselves)how to socialize better. It's very down to earth and easy to follow, great for parents of a child any age to learn how to help them help themselves.

When my daughter went to a friend’s birthday party and ended up spending the time there playing with the family dog, I knew she needed a little guidance in how to interact with her friends better. I struggled with how to teach her this as I was never good at making friends in school. I thought this book might help. Not only did it help her, it ended up helping me as well! The book gives real life examples of how to get your child involved with other children, which approaches work better, and even dealing with the not so nice children at school. If you and/or your child have plenty of friends already, this book may be just “common sense” to you and does not apply. However, if you’ve been struggling, like me, to help your child make and keep friends, I found it very useful. Even my hubby has gotten on board with the advice in this book and is teaching our children how to be “good sports”.