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

I love this book. It breaks down often unspoken social rules regarding eye conduct, starting conversations, keeping conversations going, and ending conversations. It also introduces more internal issues such as self-love and building confidence. I do the exercises with my two boys who are 12 and 10. We try to do it every night before bed and it has been very helpful. It has also brought us closer together. My 12 yo who has an Asperger's diagnosis really likes it because it is demystifying codes of conduct that he has not figured out through social osmosis. My neurotypical child also enjoys the role-playing that we do with it and the stories of social experiences that I share because the stories relate to the topics in the book.

I highly recommend this as an added resource to build positive social skills for children. We have began utilizing this and I see a significant improvement in confidence.

I bought this for my 8 year old and I to work on together. She can be a little bossy and I wanted to give her solid social skills in a fun and non judgmental way. She loves doing this with me. We do a couple of pages a few times a week. I just got a call from her teacher today that she has seen a lot of improvement in her social skills in school. I am so happy!

Content of the book is great. Excited for the read and activities it has to do. Though when it arrived the book itself had been damaged and is dirty.

I use this in therapy with the littles for teaching social skills

As a psychotherapist myself I was impressed with the high quality of the content. This is not only a fun and colorful workbook, you are teaching your child great social and empathy skills. My daughter is on the spectrum and she is learning these with ease. Thank you!

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.

With 130+ pages, this is a great summer book as children get into the more social grades. Even mentions texting (don’t repeatedly), maybe more. I can see some children engaged with it up to 8th grade if only to do a check in on their own experiences and actions. I believe good in building confidence.

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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.

I use this book a lot at work. It is right on point and filled with fab activities for junior school children. Highly recommend

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.