Friends matter
Make sure that you start a good foundation for your kids. Teach your children about sincerity and peer pressure. Let them determine their friends by showing them how to determine real personalities.
Moms are wise
When I was a kid, my mother showed me what sorts of friends are the ones to keep. Now that I have children, especially in expat life, I can see how right she was. She taught me one of the best indicators of a good friend. She told me when you play, and when it’s time to clean up the good friends will always help you.
Responsibility
Now when you live abroad most families have outside help. Regardless children should still be respectful and responsible to tidy their things. If a child can already discard whatever they are doing so quickly and leave you holding the bag, then I wouldn’t encourage such friendships.
Bullies
It starts early these days. Unfortunately a lot of parents by the guise of “doing me” can also perpetuate to their children a sense of narcissism. Whenever I see a child having their wants treated equal to an adults, I can see it happening. It’s my opinion the reason why children have so many issues lately is because we’ve let them. Children do not have the capacity to understand their decisions like adults.
Our own faults
Basically we have let children make their own choices. However since they are minors if anything unsavoury ever happened we have to fix their mistakes. Boundaries and treating children as minors is what will give them the ability to take more responsibility. We need to show them that choosing good friends is a good life long quality.