Beginner 5 hours 5 modules

Friendship, Peer Pressure & Social Confidence

Helping your child build strong friendships and resist unhealthy influence

How friendships form and fracture across childhood. Help your child stand on their own without standing alone.

Social belonging is the most powerful force in a child's life — more motivating than parental approval, more compelling than academic goals. This course helps parents understand how friendship works at each developmental stage, why peer pressure is so hard to resist, and what they can actually do to help their child build genuine social confidence. From the playground to the sixth form common room, this course covers the conversations, skills and strategies that matter.

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£19.99

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5 interactive modules
8-stage INTERACT learning
Certified Digital Parent credential
Lifetime access
Stream on any device

What You Will Learn

Understand how friendship develops at each stage from early childhood to adolescence
Recognise the difference between healthy social influence and harmful peer pressure
Help your child build genuine social confidence without rescuing or overprotecting
Navigate friendship problems — exclusion, fallouts, and toxic friendships — effectively
Have the conversations that help your child make independent, values-based choices
Support a socially anxious or isolated child without increasing their anxiety

Who This Course Is For

Parents of children aged 5–18

Course Curriculum

Every module follows the 8-stage INTERACT learning model

1

How Friendship Works at Every Age

Understanding what your child needs socially — and why it changes

20 min
2

Understanding Peer Pressure

Why the need to belong overrides almost everything else — and what to do about it

20 min
3

Building Genuine Social Confidence

What confidence actually looks like — and how parents help or hinder it

20 min
4

Friendship Problems — Fallouts, Exclusion & Toxic Friendships

How to help without taking over

20 min
5

Raising a Socially Wise Child

The long game — social intelligence, kindness and knowing your own mind

20 min

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Every course is developed by child safety specialists and education professionals. Content is aligned with NCSC guidance and updated as the digital landscape evolves.

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Friendship, Peer Pressure & Social Confidence — £19.99, lifetime access

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