Social Skills Activities for Kids: 50 Fun Exercises for Making Friends, Talking and Listening, and Understanding Social Rules

If I could give this book 100 stars I would! Whether homeschool, private, school, or public school this book fits any education style. Plus- fun activities among the way.

its a really good book ! I enjoy reading it with my son and doing the various activities , I feel it helped my son understand more about social interactions and social cues and what is he suppose to do and not do x My only downfall its the price ! like its a little pricey for 50 Activites only but other than that its really great.

I knew as soon as I opened the book to the first exercise it was going to be a good one. We see a picture and there are questions for children to answer about what’s going on. What do you hear? What do you feel? What do you guess is going on? And so on… This will be a great book for parents, counselors, and teachers, both for its kid-friendly exercises and because it includes guidance - in short doses - in every chapter. As author Daniels, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker notes, the skills learned (with adults partnering) are easier to absorb in “bite-sized” pieces. She covers a wide range of social skills. She doesn’t miss much and she has clearly had hands-on experience, and she’s a mom, too. She rightly calls social skills “superpowers” and has an exercise where kids can rate their own strengths and weaknesses. Some topics include starting and keeping a conversation going, accepting different qualities in friends, when to go along with the group and when not to, the three steps to reaching a compromise, telling tales, dealing with dares, table manners, and much more. There are many gold nuggets that will be especially useful for kids on the spectrum, such as reading body language, how to say goodbye, how close to stand to people so they’re not uncomfortable (body bubbles - a great way to describe this so kids will remember!), and reviewing what someone said to see if they’re being oversensitive – or not. This book gets an A+.

I bought this for my granddaughter to keep her focused and directed in book work outside of school. I have to work with her as the activities can be a bit involved.

The workbook style and the reading material was great. It allowed both parent and child to gain insight to social norms. Kindergarten to third grade would benefit from the situations presented. This book and parent involvement is greatly benefitting a 6 year old autistic child and a 2nd grader.

Last week we got our copy of Natasha Daniels "Social Skills Activities for Kids". The first night of I was able to get 2 lessons done. Let me tell you he REALLY loved the 2nd lesson and we made it a game. Every evening since we started he has been getting himself ready for bed because he is excited to do our lesson. As a reward we keep going back to Lesson #2 an exercise where he is blindfolded and trying to get around the house (to show kids a metaphor for not having all the skills they may need). He loves this so much! It really has created a ROUTINE for us, a sense of connection and a way for me to get more insight as to what may be going on in my Childs mind. I highly recommend something like this if you all are looking for some way to make connection. With this book I've been spending about 15 minutes a day devoted to our lessons right before bed time. It really has lifted his spirits to spend extra time with him.

I use this book with my kids (6, 8, and 10) as part of our homeschool curriculum. We just talk through it and don’t use the writing space. Overall it has been helpful - for all of us! I have social anxiety and this has been a very useful tool. My kids are neurodiverse and they have also been learning useful skills from it. However, I was bothered by the “making eye contact” bit. As we learn more about neurodivergence and become a more inclusive society we really need to get away from that being considered a respectful/preferred trait. Those with autism, anxiety, or a history of trauma may not be capable of maintaining eye contact - and that should not be considered a fault. My other problem with the book is the short section regarding “sensitive” persons. As a highly sensitive person (HSP) myself, I understand why the author would want to address this, and some of the content within those lessons was helpful. But I’m not sure how much the author has actually studied HSPs, or maybe she’s trying to pull in some common pitfalls of certain personality disorders, but in some places she seems to confuse “sensitive” with selfish. My children all scored high on the sensitive “quiz,” but none of them identified with the sensitive “rules,” which honestly seemed more from an entitled perspective of a transactional relationship rather than the unreasonable feelings/fears of a sensitive person in a real friendship. In other places she labels something as rude if you do it, but if someone else does the same thing and it bothers you then you are “sensitive.” My primary concern is that children, particularly girls, will internalize that they are overly sensitive and excuse people crossing their boundaries or even abusing them. I think it would be better to point out what to do with our sensitive feelings when they are truly unreasonable in social situations. That was probably the goal here, but it really missed the mark.

An excellent book for teaching social skills professionally as a counselor and as a parent

El contenido está muy interesante y la calidad de libro es muy buena

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A great book that will allow you to actively engage with you clild, and will make ur chilled more emotionally intelligent on the long term 😀

Thanks for the book. I appreciated the practical activities and actions that were described. It was helpful to translate even for adults.

Just getting into this with my 11 year old, neurodiverse son. He likes the book and thinks the practice activities are fun. I would call that a success.