My grandson is 6 and is starting to copy everything his best friend does.?

Question

For example my grandson likes every type of food and his friend does not, so now my grandson is telling us he doesn't like these foods anymore, also he's into baseball and karate, his friend said that baseball and karate are stupid, now my grandson doesn't want to participate in these activities. How do you handle something like this.

Answer 1

he needs a role model

Answer 2

If this friendship is not offering anything positive to your grandson's behavior, I would limit the time he spends with him, and try to encourage him to make friends with a child in his karate class or baseball team.

Answer 3

now, that means your grandson is a copycat and copycats are those, who dont have any talent of thier own! so his friend must be very talented that he is doing this now, your solution is you must keep them apart as possible as you can & and you should explain your Grandson the what is doing and ask him about his own like's and dislikes he should be minded with his own things for some time and tell his friend that ,'' no, my talent is better! you must leave your things''

Answer 4

He's in the stage where he's trying to find where he stands in life, let him know that all people are different, tell him not to be a follower, but a leader, explain the difference

Answer 5

you might want to sit him down and tell him the most vital growing up story of all: the being an individual story.

i think every parent/guardian should have this talk with their kids at least once before age 10.

Answer 6

I think that you should tell your grandson to ignore that kid

my brothers 5 and he copys his friends but i told him they were evil and bad so he stopped =]

kids are easy to persuade

Answer 7

You really can't at his age. His mind is sort of at a manipulative stage and sooner than later he'll do what he wants to do.

Answer 8

It is just a stage he is just trying to emulate his friend he'll grow out of his rebelliousness

Answer 9

he's still little.
let him do what he wants to do, it's his learning process.
it'll let him learn much more things by following what his friends doing.
and maybe he'll learnt that he actually likes what you told him to do.

Answer 10

You need to have a serious talk with him