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Welcome to Raising Good Humans. I'm Dr. Lisa Pressman and we're talking today about

friendship challenges. My guest is bestselling author, coach and parent educator Rachel Simmons,

who has been on the podcast a couple times actually and we are also going to do some Instagram

lives so that you can ask more questions. I took all the questions from today off of my direct

messages on Instagram at Raising Good Humans podcast. If you have more questions just send them in

and of course if you enjoyed this episode please if you have not already subscribed,

rate and write a review and this is always a joy for me because Rachel is a childhood friend.

We have known each other since we were five years old in kindergarten and I love her so much and

it's just such a blast to work with her as well. You guys sent in questions. There were so many

that were related to difficult friendship issues. I decided it's time to have Rachel Simmons back

because who better to answer them? So here's the first one. How do you handle the constant,

you know what I could have said thank you for coming and welcome. Here's my intro.

Can I just get an intro on this podcast? You have to have not known me since we were in kindergarten.

Okay that's fair. We're Mishbhaha which are people to find in this family.

Okay so ready. What's the advice directly to a child that is so desperate to make friends that

they come on so strong like a like a level five clinger. How do you tell them constructively to

back the hell off? I'm watching my child so desperate to make friends but coming on so strong

that people push her away. Okay you know what I would really do. This is okay. I mean no I don't

but I'm excited to hear. I used to do this exercise with kids on boundary setting and I've also

done it with college students and here's what I would actually do with your child. I would stand,

go in the kitchen and stand face to face about 10 feet apart and then ask your child to walk

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