Inside: 100 + social skills activities for preschoolers that teach them about manners, making and keeping friends, understanding their emotions, and more! Social skills activities for preschoolers helps teach young children valuable social skills. There are many benefits to children developing pro-social skills. For instance, research indicates that academic success in the first few years of school is…
Getting some kids to open up and talk can be like pulling teeth. They don’t always have insight into what they’re thinking and feeling and find it hard to express themselves to others. Psychotherapists discovered that using mandalas with kids can help them develop a better understanding of themselves and their experiences. Mandalas are helpful…
Five year old Isabelle came home from school one day crying her eyes out. Apparently two little girls in her kindergarten class told her she couldn’t sit with them at lunch. This of course hurt her feelings and made her very upset. Unfortunately, stories like Isabelle’s aren’t uncommon. Kids being unkind to one another is a…
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In order for children to be successful in life there are some essential social skills they need to know. Many kids learn social skills such as sharing and resolving conflicts from watching others around them. However, some kids need to be taught these skills. I’ve found that the best way to teach these skills is…
Worry doll activity to help children talk about anxiety, worry, and fears. The worry doll activity also comes with directions of how to guide the conversation with children to help them open up.
Social skills games are great for helping kids develop valuable social emotional skills. Many of us that work with children accept that play is the language of kids. When you can make a lesson fun it’s easy to keep kids engaged. For this reason, I choose to teach social skills with the following social skills…
Since children are not born knowing how to show respect for others, it is important that we teach them the important character trait of being respectful. In an effort to teach children how to be respectful, I created Good Character: Learning How To Show Respect for use with children in Pre-Kindergarten-2nd grade. This activity bundle…
We all want our children to have friends, to do well in school, and to have as many positive experiences as possible. It’s a relief when we know our kids are well-adjusted and happy. Fortunately, most kids are indeed well-adjusted. However, there are some children who lack healthy social-emotional skills which causes them to struggle with leading…
Last year, one of my goals was to get my six-year old son to regularly sleep in his own room. You can read more about how I did this here. We finally started seeing progress, and then out of nowhere, he began having nightmares. We wanted him to feel safe, but we didn’t want…