Can I make a story about a real situation at school?

Yes. Describe it when creating the story and it will be written around it — usually with the names changed, which most parents find works better.

They are written to avoid it. The stories end with a repair rather than a stated lesson, on the view that a moral spelled out is a moral ignored.

Friendship & Kindness Stories

Most of what is difficult about being six is social, and very little of it is covered by the stories children are usually given. These are about the actual mechanics: joining a game that has already started, apologising when you were only partly wrong, being left out, being the one who left someone out.

What makes a good friendship & kindness story

Repair, not just conflict

The interesting half of a falling-out is the making up, so that is where these stories spend their pages.

Nobody is the villain

Both sides usually have a point, which is both truer and more useful.

Kindness with a cost

Kindness that costs the character something reads as real; kindness that costs nothing reads as a poster.

Good for a classroom

These are the ones teachers use to open a discussion.

Story ideas to start from

The game everyone else already knows the rules to
An apology that has to be given twice before it works
Two best friends and one invitation
The new child who says nothing for a week
Being the one who was unkind, and noticing it late

Common questions

Can I make a story about a real situation at school?: Yes. Describe it when creating the story and it will be written around it — usually with the names changed, which most parents find works better.
Are these preachy?: They are written to avoid it. The stories end with a repair rather than a stated lesson, on the view that a moral spelled out is a moral ignored.