Peer Conflict
Your friend keeps telling everyone that you like a girl. You like the girl as a friend, but now she is avoiding you because she is embarrassed. What do you do?
Talk directly to your (girl) friend and explain that your friends are just saying that because you're friends and to not worry about it.
Tell your (guy) friend to stop the rumors.
Ignore the whole thing and hope it goes away.
Your friend invited you to go rollerskating. You said yes, and then your other friend invited you to a Fortnight marathon at his house. You really want to play Fortnight, but you don't know what to tell your first friend. What do you do?
Ask your Fortnight friend if you can get together the next day.
Invite your rollerskating friend to play Fortnight with you and your other friend.
Ask your rollerskating friend if you can go the next day instead.
Your friend is making mean comments about a girl at school in a group chat. He wants to know who agrees with him. Everyone else joins in with mean comments. He calls you out and asks you what you think. What do you do?
Don't answer and then tell him your battery died the next time you see him
Change the subject in the chat ("hey, did anyone see Escape Room?")
Tell your friends it's uncool to talk about people behind their back.
Your friend tells you a secret in absolute confidence. You don't really mean to, but you tell another friend. Soon the whole school seems to know what your friend's secret is. Your friend is really mad at you. Your other friends are also upset that you revealed the secret. What do you do?
Talk to your friend directly and tell him what happened. Ask for his forgiveness.
Take responsibility with all of your friends, and tell them it won't happen again. Keep your word!
Your best friend asks you to play 4 square during lunch. You really want to play knockout with some other friends. You know your one friend doesn't like to play basketball, what do you do?
Play 4 square and then tell your other friends you'll play knockout tomorrow.
Tell your friend you'll play for half the time and then you're going to play knockout.
Invite your friend to play knockout and tell him you'll coach him through it.
Your friend brought a vape pen to school. He asks if you want to try it. What do you do?
Tell him "no thanks" and walk away
Make a joke about saving your lungs for the marathon your training for.
Tell him your parents will kill you if you get suspended
Your friend is always making sexist and racist comments to other kids while he is walking down the hallway with you. You feel embarrassed, but don't want your friend to get mad at you. What do you do.
Go a different way in the hallway so that you don't need to walk with your friend.
Tell him how his behavior makes you feel and ask him to stop.
Make an anonymous report to administration or counselor
Your friend tells you he's really depressed and is thinking of hurting himself. He tells you not to tell anyone. What do you do?
Tell him you'll go with him to tell the counselor or another safe adult, but that it's important he tell someone.
Call Safe to Tell and make an anonymous report
Tell the school counselor yourself
Your friend keeps talking to you in class. Your teacher has asked you to stop talking 2 times. You don't want your friend to think you are ignoring him. What do you do?
Tell him you'll talk to him at lunch.
Tell him you can't get in trouble or your mom will ground you from Fortnight
Your friend thinks he's really funny and is always making jokes about your mom and your appearance. It's really annoying. What do you do?
Tell him how you feel and ask him to stop. If he doesn't, stop hanging out with him.
Start hanging out with other kids--the less time you spend with him, the less annoyed you'll be.
Your friend keeps running through the middle of the four square game and trying to steal the ball. You are getting really irritated. What do you do?
Ask him to stop and tell him his behavior is messing up the game.
Ignore him-he clearly is having fun
Ask a teacher who is watching to tell him to stop
Your friend asks you to ditch with him during 2nd period. You are doing the pacer test in PE and neither of you want to go. What do you do?
You talk yourself into going to PE- maybe you'll beat your old record.
You tell your friend that your mom will kill you if you get caught skipping and go to class.
You are invited to go to the mall with a new group of friends from school. You don't know them that well, but are excited that they included you in their plans. When you go into the Vans store, you think you see one of them slip a pair of socks into a pocket without paying. What do you do?
Decide that you won't hang out with that particular kid again-it's not worth getting busted for shoplifting.
Tell him to give it back-shoplifting can get you arrested.
Talk to the other kids who know him better and see what they think you should do.
You keep sending your friend messages online, but he won't answer. You can tell he's online. What do you do?
Next time you see him in person, check in with him to make sure everything is okay.
Send him funny memes and see if you can get him to respond.
Your taking a test in social studies. Your new friend, who is really popular, asks if he can look at your answers. You are afraid he will not want to hang out with you if you say no. What do you do?
Tell him that you didn't study, and he will probably fail if he looks at your test
Tell him that your dad will ground you if you get caught cheating.
Tell him no, but offer to help him study for the next test.