What to do if your child has poor social skills? 5 steps to become a social expert

The first step is to help enrich children's knowledge, so that they have enough knowledge and don't worry about having nothing to talk about. The second step is to give children enough respect and cultivate their self-confidence. The third step is to teach children the skills of communication, which can avoid detours. The fourth step is to encourage them to go out and play more, so that more contact can lead to more exercise. The fifth step is to train children's speaking ability, because oral expression ability is extremely important.

Step 1: Help enrich your child’s knowledge

If you want to train your children's ability to make friends, you cannot ignore the expansion of their knowledge. It is recommended that parents take their children to the library to read books or take a trip outdoors on weekends or holidays. This will not only enrich their children's language skills, but also provide material for conversation with other children in the future.

Step 2: Give your child enough respect

At the same time, it is also important for parents to give their children enough respect. Because when they feel respected by others, they can understand the importance of respect, and they will learn to respect others when interacting with other children in the future.

Step 3: Teach your children communication skills

Although interpersonal communication seems very simple, it actually requires many methods and approaches. Therefore, to cultivate children's social skills, it is necessary to teach them various skills in communication, such as learning to respect others, treating others with tolerance, etc.

Step 4: Encourage more outdoor play

In addition, parents should encourage their children to go outside and play with other children more often. This will help them learn to share joy with others, learn how to socialize, and help them become social experts.

Step 5: Train your child’s speaking skills

Some children can talk non-stop in front of their parents and relatives, but once they meet someone they don't know well, they immediately become silent. So if you want them to be social experts, parents should find out in time whether they are shy or for some other reason, and then help them train their speaking skills in a targeted manner.

1. Communicate with your children frequently

Spending time with children, communicating with them, playing with them, and building a close relationship with them will let them know that they are loved and recognized. This is the source of their confidence when they interact with their peers and friends. Parental love is a guiding light for children to develop outward and explore complex external interpersonal relationships. At the same time, communicating with children and playing games together is also a good way for busy parents to relieve their stress.

2. Patiently guide children's interactions

Pay more attention to who your children associate with, help them analyze their own personality and hobbies, etc., and do not interfere with them making friends. When children show abnormalities in the process of making friends, parents need to guide them patiently, and never simply stop them, which will cause their children to be disgusted.

3. Invite your child’s classmates to your home

You can invite your child’s classmates and friends to your home on his or her birthday or holidays, observe how your child interacts with other children, and guide him or her to get along with others properly when appropriate, so that he or she can learn to be tolerant, cooperative, relational and considerate of others. This will be very beneficial for your child’s future interactions.

Babies' social activities start much earlier than people think, and they have already started social activities before they are born. After the baby is born, parents should change their traditional parenting concepts and learn to actively communicate with the baby, such as insisting on breastfeeding and encouraging breastfeeding within half an hour of the baby's birth. When the baby sucks the first mouthful of breast milk from the mother's nipple, it is the beginning of the baby's social interaction with the mother. The baby's social interaction starts with contact with family members, so parents must pay attention to it.

1. Talk to your children more often

Many parents do not know that the basis for children to learn a language is imitation. Therefore, parents must first talk to their children more and let them become familiar with the language so that their children can maintain a high degree of sensitivity to the language. This is the most basic step in training children's oral expression skills.

2. Make sure your child has something to say

Try to find topics that children are interested in and discuss with them. Do not go beyond the scope of children's cognition, so that children can "speak" out. There was a junior high school teacher who had just joined the class. In the first composition class, he gave the students the topic "If I were a manager" to write. As a result, none of the children's writing was satisfactory. Children have no intuitive understanding of the role of "manager". How can they write a good article? Not only the children, but even the teacher himself does not know how to be a "manager". It can be seen from this that in order to let children learn oral expression, it is necessary to mobilize the enthusiasm of children, let them feel that they have something to say, and let the children's thinking be fully active, because language always follows thinking.

3. Let the children observe and discuss more

Observing various things can help children broaden their horizons, increase their knowledge, and speak with content. When children observe, they should be guided to see the object clearly and given instructions with words. For example, they should be told the name and characteristics, nature, purpose and relationship between things and people. In this process, they should be consciously taught some new words and correct pronunciation. They can also be asked some questions and let them discuss. This will naturally exercise children's oral ability.

4. Allow children to fully express their wishes

When a child expresses his understanding of something, no matter whether the child's idea is correct or not, and what the result is, parents should not dampen the child's enthusiasm, because this is the child expressing his own wishes. The important thing is to let him "speak it out" rather than caring whether what he says is "right or not."

5. Let children speak and practice more

Language develops in the process of practice. To develop children's oral language ability, they must be allowed to speak and practice more. Here, more practice mainly refers to giving children more opportunities to tell their own experiences, including retelling stories they have heard, telling the contents of books, making up stories, and talking to others in daily life. Children should be allowed to organize language creatively based on their own knowledge, vocabulary and grammar.