To guide educators in understanding peer shifts, friendship drama, and social exploration as normal developmental processes.
Friendships change as you grow — and that’s okay. Every friendship teaches you something about who you are and how to care for others.
To help parents and educators understand that social changes — caring more about friends, shifting friend groups, exploring crushes, or experiencing “friendship drama” — are normal developmental tasks of puberty.
For Black girls, these social-emotional shifts can also be sites of resistance, belonging, and cultural expression — not immaturity or instability.
