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The social skills of a child help them to overcome on their own. This creates an essential role in their overall growth, education, success, and happiness. Let’s have a look at what social skills are. The word social means the person and the people around them. Some day or even every day your children may face problems interacting with others, acknowledging others’ views, and listening to them. Managing this is described as developing social skills.

Some children can become more socially adaptive than others. Remember one thing, your children will follow you everywhere. So correcting your social behavior with others can play a huge role in their development. Now you must think, why socialization is important at the earlier stage of life of children? When children develop strong social skills at a younger age, the impact will be reflected throughout their life. Your child’s social skills are very much important for their lifetime success. There are so many steps to improve their social skills, but we will discuss the important 5 steps to improve them.

• Encourage to make eye contact :

Encourage your child to make eye contact while talking to someone. This helps to build confidence in a child. At first, your child may face some difficulties to achieve this but they will gradually be adapted to this.

• Teach them about different emotions :

Let your child imitate different types of emotions like anger, joy, disappointment, excitement, mischief, terror, danger, etc.

You can play the ‘identify the emotion’ game with them.

• Help them communicate about different things :

Communication is key to developing social skills. If your children don’t want to communicate with anyone don’t force them to do so. Just keep them in your lap and have a conservation with them. With time they will understand how communication is important to keep everything OK.

Let them express different greetings and responses. Start communicating with them. Use ‘Good Morning’, ‘Good Night’, ‘Bye’, ‘Thank you’, ‘Please’.

• Introduce them to others :

A lonely child may face difficulties interacting with others. They may become ‘introverts’ in nature. Give your children good company, exposure, and chances to interact with others. Don’t keep them inside the house always. Try to take them to a children’s park where they can get an option to interact with other children. When a child mingles with others he/she develops interpersonal skills which can become the foundation of his/her personality.

• Give them responsibilities :

Some of us may feel frightened when we have to take responsibility but believe me, children love to take responsibility. You can ask them to help you when you are cooking or washing clothes. These activities can help to build their confidence as well as will empower him/her.

7 important social skills that your children should have :

• Sharing
• Cooperating
• Following directions
• Respecting personal space
• Listening
• Making eye contact
• Manners

Developing social skills in your children is a crucial part of parenting. Let them express their desire, happiness, sorrow, and fear but in a decent way. If you encourage disrespecting behavior in your child, in the future you can be a victim of this. Encourage them to talk politely with all.

Children face a lot more stress during the phase of different types of development. They might become confused or confuse you with their behavior. All you have to do is keep patience and you should be ready to face a lot more hardship. Best of luck to all parents.