How can you tell they’ve got it: Resolving Disagreements with Friends?

If they’ve got it, you’ll see things like: Explain their own point of view calmly during a disagreement; Listen to the other person's perspective without interrupting; Suggest a compromise or solution that addresses both sides. Or just try it together: If your child and a friend disagree about which game to play at break time, can they talk it through and find a compromise — rather than one person always getting their way or the argument escalating?

Personal & Social Development Friendship & Cooperation Ages 7–9

Resolving Disagreements with Friends

Your child can work out a disagreement by talking. They share how they feel, hear the other side, and find an answer both can accept.

In curriculum terms

Resolve simple disagreements with peers by talking it through — explaining how they feel, listening to the other person's side, and finding a compromise or solution that both can accept

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How to tell they’ve got it

Tick these off as you see them — no test required.

Explain their own point of view calmly during a disagreement
Listen to the other person's perspective without interrupting
Suggest a compromise or solution that addresses both sides

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Try this together

If your child and a friend disagree about which game to play at break time, can they talk it through and find a compromise — rather than one person always getting their way or the argument escalating?

Where this sits on the map

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Builds on

Listening to Othersages 5–7Resolving disagreements builds on listening to others

Makes someone a good friendages 5–7Conflict resolution builds on understanding friendship qualities

Communication Vocabularyages 7–11Resolving disagreements requires vocabulary for conflict, resolution, and compromise

Group discussionsages 4–11Resolving disagreements through conversation requires the collaborative speaking skills — staying on topic, building on others' contributions — from Speaking & Listening

Expressing Feelings with Wordsages 5–7Resolving disagreements benefits from expressing feelings in words

Resolving Disagreements with Friendsthis skill · ages 7–9

Unlocks

Assertive Communicationages 9–11Assertive communication builds on basic conflict resolution

Helping Others Resolve Conflictsages 9–11Mediating others' conflicts builds on resolving own disagreements

Friendships change over timeages 7–9Navigating friendship changes benefits from conflict resolution skills

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Curriculum alignment

Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.

Show candidate curriculum codes · 2 VIC

Australian Curriculum v9 candidate

This skill sits outside the F–6 Australian Curriculum — no candidate code matched (v0.1).

Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only

VC2HC4S04low confidenceCivics and Citizenship · Levels 3 and 4 · Skills strand

VC2HP2P03low confidenceHealth and Physical Education · Levels 1 and 2 · Personal, Social and Community Health – Health Education strand

These are candidate alignments generated by semantic matching — machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1), not official or verified mappings. For official curriculum content see australiancurriculum.edu.au, curriculum.nsw.edu.au and f10.vcaa.vic.edu.au. Don’t rely on them for registration or compliance purposes.

Nearby on the map

Communication Vocabularyages 7–11 Friendships change over timeages 7–9 Roles in a Groupages 7–9 Working Well in a Groupages 7–9

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