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BE A “FRIENDSHIP COACH”
Supporting your child through the ups and downs of friendship!
Do you often find yourself at a loss for advice when your children come to you with their friendship issues? Don’t worry, you’re not alone and we’re here to help. URSTRONG provides simple but meaningful language and skills to open up a dialogue with your kids.
How will URSTRONG help me?
We’ve got your back!
We know how heart-breaking it is to watch your child struggle with friendship issues and we’re here to provide support and answers to those tricky questions.
Kids’ language for kids’ problems
Our kid-friendly approach creates a common language to open up those lines of communication, helping you feel closer to your child while building trust.
Practical skills and effective coaching techniques
You will gain confidence to support your child through friendship dramas. Gone will be the days of resorting to saying, “Just ignore it!” or “Suck it up!”.
Empowering kids with friendship skills
You will learn how to empower your child to make healthier decisions in their friendships and put out Friendship Fires® (resolve conflict) in a respectful way.
URSTRONG Family Membership
To help parents manage the home-schooling requirement of the global pandemic URSTRONG made its membership free for life!
- Watch our 8-session Language of Friendship video series with your child to learn lingo and strategies to foster healthy friendships.
- With a growing library of over a 100 resources, parents and carers can choose from videos, activities, worksheets, and art projects all year long.
- Let us do the teaching for you with our URSTRONG Classroom! Our self-guided videos and live online workshops are designed for your child to learn independently.
How does URSTRONG work?
URSTRONG is all about empowering kids with friendship skills! We’ve developed a proven, skills-based strategy that provides a host of kid-friendly concepts, skills and language to help them build and maintain healthy friendships.
- Kids love to recite the 4 Friendship Facts which are a solid foundation to think about their friendships.
- The Friend-o-Meter is a great tool to understand how kids feel about their friendships and what they can do to improve them.
- The Friend-o-Cycle helps kids understand how they can put out Friendship Fires and make their friendships stronger.
- URSTRONG encourages kids to stand up for themselves with respect for themselves and their friends. Identifying if the conflict is a Friendship Fire vs Mean on Purpose is key!
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What parents are saying about URSTRONG
We love what we do and we love hearing the heart-warming stories from parents and teachers about the impact URSTRONG is having on the special kids in their lives!
Your simple, practical tips on how to behave in the face of conflict reinforces the fundamental belief that we all deserve to be treated with respect.
Emily Rytmeister, Parent
You’ve given us the tools to help identify what is healthy and what is not and how relationships change and that’s ok.
Joanne Nikolas, Parent
The skills we learned are still helping us communicate about friendships over a year later. They will help guide us both in making friendships for the rest of our lives.
Melanie Tewman, Parent
Thank you for having the wisdom to offer URSTRONG to boys as well as girls. I see the complexities in boys’ friendships are often underappreciated or mishandled.
Michelle, Parent
I was so impressed at how much information my daughter retained and the confidence it gave her to deal with issues in the playground tomorrow.
Peppi Cooley, Parent
I felt like you were teaching my child all the things I wanted to teach them about how to be a good friend, but didn’t know how.
Jessica Ritchie, Parent
URSTRONG virtual sessions are fun and inspiring and offer new ways to look at old problems. Thank you for leading our young people.
Anne Layton, Parent
Not only are the videos and resources on the website amazing and full of great information, the whole team is fantastic too! 5 stars!
Bec Schenk, Parent