Social Skills Activities for Kids: 50 Fun Exercises for Making Friends, Talking and Listening, and Understanding Social Rules Paperback – March 26, 2019

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!

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.

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.

Arrived on time & is exactly as described. Seems to be helping my grandsons. No complaints

I have been using this in my classroom as social and emotional learning mini lessons. It helps start conversations and offers talking points for group discussions but also can be used as quiet reflections and as writing prompts. A great little book to reinforce skills that many children are lacking or do not feel confident in!

Great book!

Great social skills book for students who still need to fill in those gaps. Activities aren’t cheesy for older students and can be done with younger students by removing the writing piece, as appropriate.

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.