How to Develop Social Skills in Your Child?
• When your child is young, you’d want them to meet
more kids and make new friends and also learn how to engage and interact with the people around him/her. • You’d want your child to learn to cooperate well with
other kids and people – and, as your child grows, his/her need for good social skills would only increase.
• He/she would be required to learn ways of giving and
receiving respect and also how to advocate for oneself. • Social skills would help in developing independence,
negotiating skills, and self-confidence, as well as the ability to better plan their future and goals. • So, here are some tips to help parents teach social
skills to their child:
Be a great role model • Evidence-based ideas of helping kids connect, communicate, read minds, and empathize are helpful. • One of the most important of such evidence-based
ideas
is
the
importance of the parents being great role models themselves.
• In order to fulfill such a crucial role, a parent would be required to start off by speaking to their child when you see that someone is in distress. • This specific person could be a real person – or could be a character in a movie or book. • Even brief empathetic conversations with your kid would help a lot, suggests a teacher at the
Encourage toddlers to share and take turns • You should have your toddlers engage in playful act of reciprocity. • It could include taking turns pressing a toy-button, rolling a football back & forth with another child, or simply handling passing a toy to each other as well.
• In one study, where an adult who was unknown previously to the kid participated in a similar type of play, where the toddlers begin to “respond to the new playmate as an individual to help as well as share with. • On the other hand, when toddlers played next to the stranger, the same effect did not take place.
Keep realistic expectations of your child’s social competence
• The kind of social cues and skills that
are fairly reasonable to observe at certain ages vary. • Your kid, suggests a teacher at the
nursery schools in Dubai ,
would
probably say “bye” and “hi” to the people as a part of their social actions.
• By the time they are three or four years old, he/she must be able to take their turns during the game-playing and also use actual words while starting any conversation with adults. • When they reach the age of 4-5, they should be able to easily cooperate with the other kids.
• By the time a child gets 5 – 6 years old, suggests a teacher at the day care centers in Dubai, it is more likely that he/she starts understanding the basic foundation of good sportsmanship and also use of “Thank You”, “Please”, and “I’m Sorry”. • By the age of seven years, your kid should be already be better at sharing and also be able to
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