How to Develop Social Skills in Child

Children having underdeveloped social skills struggles to have concentration. Try to engage them in interesting activities, which they perform with full attention, and hold them for a longer period of time. Help them to sustain attention in daily tasks. This will help them in improving social skills when they communicate with proper attention.

Make sure when you are talking to your children they are attentive. If they are not concentrating, draw their attention to yourself. Kids are usually attracted to things that they find interesting. Maybe the child will not pay attention to having lunch outside but contributes to a discussion about a trip to a theme park. Interests really matter in building concentration, always keep child interests in mind when you are helping them in social development

Many quiet and shy children often don't look at others' eyes while talking. Mostly they stare at the ground or look around at random things. This will led their personalities to be timid. Due to this, they have to suffer in making healthy relations and they will face learning culpabilities. Make sure your child will look at a person's eye while talking, you can easily do this at home.

Ask your kid to share some story when they share, look at the ground or somewhere around again ask them to tell the story and this time make eye contact with them. Ask about the experience when you are paying attention to them and when you are not paying attention. Then explain to them the importance of eye contact. Use sentences like "look at me " more often while talking to kids this will help them to make eye contact. Remember children need time to understand things and make them work outlet they take their time.

Studies have shown that childhood friendships are good for kids' cognitive health. They help children in advance social development like problem-solving and decision making. Making new friends and maintaining friendships is really good but sometimes introverted children face behavior problems like they refuse to attend crowded areas like parks and social events. While others show inappropriate behavior like yelling at others or tugging a peer's hair. Both types face difficulty making friends hence parents should help kids to make friends and maintain friendships

Introduce children to peer groups. Invite them to your place or take your child to their, and engage them in games that they like. If they face any conflict don't react harshly instead teach them to talk calmly in a respectful manner with their friends. Encourage them to apologize.

Children need help communicating with others. Kids should learn to express, interact and respond verbally or non verbally in different social situations. Make sure when your child communicates don't interrupt or when they ask questions to try to respond to them as quick as you can, remember when a child says something stupid don't laugh these actions will drop their confidence. If they are shyor if they are aggressive these will make them ruder.

Teach your kid simple verbal communication words like please, hello, thank you, and welcome, teach them gestures like smiling and waving hands while meeting their friends.

Empathy in itself is a strong emotion when a child is able to understand his emotions. he will also understand what others feel and they will develop a strong bond with people around them. when a child feels empathy towards people around they tend to help out and it will develop a positive social attraction which improves characteristics of the child's personality.

Your child imitates your behavior so it's important to be their role model, if you treat others in a good manner and help them out your child will also do the same. make sure to be your kid's role models and train them to help out others in different social situations.

Introvert children mostly don't like to socialize, it's their parent's responsibility to help in developing their social skills but remember you have to develop skills by training don't ever force your child to socialize if they don't want to. some kids by nature like outings and gatherings while others don't, parents should not expect from a child that they like gathering same like other children and if ever you forcefully take your child out this will more damage their personality. try to take them in gatherings by making their mind in a positive way rather than forcing

Kids in their early childhood willingly share their toys and snacks with others but as they grow up most of them become less interested in sharing their stuff with friends. Parents should encourage children to share their things with friends and siblings, remember you have to encourage them not force them, you can praise them when they share this will motivate them to do the same in the future.

Sharing is a social skill that helps to maintain strong bonds, ask your child to share his favorite chocolate with his sister and tell them she feels really good about this gesture, and he has done a good job by sharing.

Some kids don't get social cues and they react in a disturbing way while communicating with others, due to which people often feel uncomfortable. If your child grabs things from someone's hand or stands too closely while talking, train them about personal space issues.

Teach your kid to stand about an arm's length away while talking, teach them to keep their hands to themselves. you can role play at home to explain to them certain situations in which they can practice personal space development.