As kids grow older, they develop a range of skills and personality traits that help them deal with a variety of situations throughout life. Social skills are a fundamental part of this journey and help them to interact with others, determine how to behave in specific circumstances and make good choices. There are many ways in which children are influenced by their childhood, and this can be determined by what they learn at both home and school. By promoting social interaction, children become more confident in a variety of ways and can use these skills to understand the different elements of social engagement. To help your child discover these skills and help them put them into practice positively, try out these fun activities.
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Telling Stories
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Sharing stories with your child can help them learn a range of things from listening to others, taking turns and showing empathy. These stories can be either real or imaginary and can help children to focus on the highlights of their storytelling rather than getting lost in the detail. After the story has been told, summarizing is a great way to help them clarify the story and also show them how to ask questions without interrupting.
Arts and Crafts
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These types of activity are great for releasing your child’s creativity, but they can also be ideal times to discover how well they take instruction. For example, you could ask them to pick a specific color pencil and draw an object. In turn, they could also repeat the task, asking you to do the same. This activity helps them to follow instructions while paying attention to the details more closely. Arts and crafts are paramount to early years in many UK schools, and they are an important feature in the current curriculum. The city of London is also known as a hive of culture and has is a great place to learn these skills. In terms of understanding your options for education in the city, there is a variety of North London schools such as North Bridge House that promotes this type of learning, as it helps children to remain focused on the task at hand.
Board Games
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Games even from a very early age are always are a great way to promote positive behaviors and highlight ways to wait their turn and cooperate with others. These types of games are also an ideal way to educate children on how to deal with losing. By practicing these type of social skills, they will become less upset at the thought of losing and will be able to cope with this without throwing a tantrum. It might take some work but explaining constructively that winning isn’t a certainty in life will help them with coping strategies for the future.
Getting Together with Friends
Children are often with friends in a school capacity but also encouraging play outside of school time is a great way to promote positive play in a different environment. This could be inviting friends to your home or going out to the park, but each has its benefits in teaching kids to share, tolerate behaviors and understand the feelings of others.
These fun activities can help promote positive behavior in children but also highlights the difficulties they may also face in specific situations. It also teaches the fundamental skills that they will need in later life.