Positive and Negative Traits

     I bet you've heard about character traits at school! In reading class, probably. You've been told to assess some characters and talk about their personalities. There are so many awesome words about there to describe people. Something else you may have talked about are how there are different kinds of traits--positive and negative. Positive traits are more good things. Negative traits are more bad things. Today, I'm going to talk about some of those traits and how you can notice them in your friends to make sure you have good ones. 

    Good friends are truly amazing. There are SO MANY positive character traits, but I'm going to just talk about a few. For example, helpful. A friend that's helpful is important. You need someone who can help you clean up those spilled markers, set the table with you, assist you on your homework, call your parents if you fell down, etc. Those are just some examples of situations that might happen where a helpful friend is important. Another great character trait to have is friendly. A friendly person is someone who wants to make, keep, and be with friends. It'll be kind of weird if you want to go to your friends place and they don't want you there every time and you never end up doing anything fun. One last character trait I'm going to talk about is honestly. If your friend is honest, they don't lie. They always tell you the truth. Some people might think this means they have to tell you everything, like all their secrets, but that isn't true. A friend can keep secrets. She just shouldn't lie about them. Some people might also think that small lies are okay, small lies can't hurt anyone, but sometimes those small lies turn into bigger lies or more horrible things. Honestly is an important trait to have. 

    Some more positive traits you might want to think about are:

    >Compassion

    >Loyalty

    >Respectfulness

    >Responsibility

    >Fairness

    (If you don't know any of these terms, look them up! They are good traits to have.)

    Let's start with the next topic: negative character traits. If your friend has one of these traits, you might want to start thinking about how much that impacts your life. If it's really bad sometimes, you may want to start rethinking your friendship. For most of these traits, the things need to happen consecutively for it to be really true. If it's happened just once, that's okay, your friend might have been in a bad mood that day. The first trait is: untrustworthy. If your friend seems like he/she is hard to trust, like if they tend to lie or something else, that's not good. For example, today you may have asked your friend what they are doing on Saturday. Your friend said they were busy and you couldn't come over because they were going on a road trip. Later, you realize your mom has asked your friend's mom, and she said that they are perfectly free and you should come over. Maybe after, you talk to your friend about it. A sign they are really untrustworthy is if they lie again, saying something like, "Oh yeah, it got cancelled last minute." Another negative character trait is rudeness. If your friend tends to insult, make fun, or yell at you, they are rude. But they might be doing that to other people as well, and sometimes it's not to you, but to others. Other kids, parents, random strangers, or anything. And when they think that behavior is okay--it's not. Being rude is never okay. 

    Some more negative character traits are:

    >Annoying

    >Argumentative 

    >Bossy

    >Jealous

    >Obnoxious

    (You can search some of these up, too!)

    I hope this post helped you and made you think a little about your friendships. Add some comments! Thanks for reading. Bye! Stay kind :)