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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

Good morning. This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

Today's tip is to look for ways to practice your friendship skills.

We might think such skills are innate, but they aren't.

Just as we can learn to play the piano, we can learn to be more

socially engaged people. In both cases, practice really does work and is worth

building into our lives. As with several other recent episodes, I'm taking this tip from Audrey Monkey's book, Happy Campers.

Monkey is a longtime camp director, and her book looks at why exactly kids find summer camp so fun.

How can we take those lessons into our homes and working lives?

She notes that summer camp is basically a friendship factory.

Kids report making some of their best friends

and the short time they attend camp.

You can feel closer to someone you know for three weeks in Summer Camp

than someone you've gone to fifth grade with all year.

When you're around people constantly and doing fun things in a positive environment,

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