Doing the right thing for friends

With all the issues Kayleigh had with making friends, she always did the right thing by the friends she did have. I know that Kayleigh would keep a secret and not gossip about her friends, or start rumours. I know that some of her so-called friends in primary school started all sorts of mean and nasty rumours about her and did not ever keep her confidence. One girl she told when she got her first period, by lunch time that day even the boys in her class knew, which is really embarrassing for a girl in year 6 who struggled to be accepted. Kayleigh always kept her friends confidences because she knew what it felt like to be humiliated by people who turned out to be untrustworthy.

Kayleigh also knew when a friends confidence shouldn't be kept. In year 7, one of her friends were self-harming themselves. Kayleigh was very worried and she didn't know what to do. Her friend made her swaer not to tell anyone, but as this situation was dangerous, Kayleigh did the right thing, but not telling her other friends but by coming home and telling me. Kayleigh asked me what to do, what should she say? how could she help her friend? ........ I told her to tell her year advisor or the counsellor at the school as they were the best people to deal with it, and they could also make sure that her friend did not have to know it was her that raised the issue. Kayleigh was relieved as she thought the best way to help her friend was to get her help. The school dealt with the issue well and her friend did find out it was Kayleigh that said something (Kayleigh admitted it to her) and she thanked Kayleigh for it because she didn't have it in her herself to seek help from the counsellor. Kayleigh did the right thing for her friend.