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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.

Encourage your child’s school to teach our friendship skills curriculum. Share this document with all the details: HOW TO BECOME A URSTRONG SCHOOL!

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URSTRONG Family Membership

In 2020, during the global pandemic, we decided to make memberships for parents FREE FOR LIFE!

  • Learn language and strategies that mirror our Friendology 101 friendship skills curriculum, taught in our URSTRONG Schools.
  • 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 & carers can choose from videos, activities, worksheets, and art projects all year long.
  • Let us do the teaching for you! Our self-guided videos are designed for your child to learn independently. Just push play!

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.

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!

Latest Friendship News & Advice

Forgiveness in Friendship: Extending an Olive Branch

In our Friendology curriculum, URSTRONG Schools help students spot strengths in themselves & their friends in our fun, character-building activities! According to VIA Institute of Character, we all possess 24 Character…

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Have you ever apologized to your child?

During the month of September, our URSTRONG Schools are teaching students about FORGIVENESS. Students are learning how to put out their Friendship Fires® and move on to Forgive & Forget…

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Book Spotlight: Fight Right by John & Julie Gottman

View this post on Instagram A post shared by URSTRONG | Dana Kerford (@urstrong.friendship) In the latest book by the Gottman’s, Fight Right, they share decades of research identifying the…

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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

My daughter really loves & has benefitted from the video series. She better understands how to approach & handle inevitable conflicts with friends. We are two lessons away from Friendship Ninja status!

Linda Warnier, Parent