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Teach your child to love and feel loved - express your love verbally and physically, love your children for themselves and not for their accomplishments.
Boost your child's feeling of importance - encourage them to take risks, emphasize the good, don't compare them to others.
Create opportunities for your child to succeed - choose activities carefully.
Support your child's activities.
Respect your child's opinions - listen respectfully to what he/she says.
Include your child in family decisions - hold family meetings.
Make special days (birthdays and holidays) really special - establish traditions.
Express appreciation to your children - give sincere praise.
Encourage independence in your child.
Develop realistic expectations for your child - overly high and overly low expectations discourage a child.
Make your child be responsible for himself/herself - don't do anything for your children that they can and should do for themselves.
Be patient and non-critical.
Allow and encourage your child to explore the world - stimulate curiosity, try not to overprotect.
Allow a certain amount of disorder - establish a child centered home.
Help your child to be assertive - model assertiveness, saying no, standing up to others without verbal aggression.
Allow your children to make their own decisions - provide choices.
Spend "quality" time with your child - develop mutual interests.
Help your child with school responsibilities - provide appropriate help, establish a good relationship with the teacher.
Use bedtime effectively - develop routines, provide support and nurturance.
Teach your child to share you with others - adults need adult companionship and outlets.
Spend time together as a family.
Discipline your child effectively - set limits, provide consequences, be consistent.
Treat your child with courtesy and consideration.
Deal calmly and effectively with unpleasant emotions - anger, sadness, jealousy, fear.
Communicate effectively with your child - listen more than you talk.
Teach your child to value other people - appreciate differences and peoples good points.
Encourage creativity in your child - art, music, dance, storytelling, appreciating nature, imaginary play.
Help your child maintain good health and personal appearance.

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9 Ways to Develop Your Child’s Social Skills

4/12/2022

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Become involved in your child's school. Your involvement makes your child more important in the eyes of classmates.
Support your child in developing one area of excellence for example a hobby, interest in nature, an artistic skill.
Become involved in your child's after school peer activities such as Boy Scouts, swim team, Special Olympics.
Encourage your child to participate in any type of organized athletics. Play with your child. Organize informal games with friends. Don't expect your child to perform well. Encourage your child to have fun and to try their best. Athletics can also be used to teach children about setting and working towards goals.
Encourage your child to try new activities and skills such as cooking, arts and crafts, gardening. Provide positive feedback about efforts and avoid telling the child how to improve unless the child asks.
Avoid solving problems for your child. Practice problem solving by presenting social situations for him to solve - "What if (provide an example)?” Discuss possible results of his solutions and how others might feel about it and be affected.
Help your child to learn to verbalize emotions by identifying and labeling the emotion and expressing how it feels.
Model positive social skills with your adult friends. Have friends over to socialize.
Include your child’s friend(s) in family activities such as going roller skating, an overnight.

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