A social child is a happy child!
Social skills are crucial life skills and can do marvels for your child’s overall personality and emotional evolution! Developing social skills in children commences as early as pre-school and should include playing with other children. While you can’t compel your child to interact with others, allowing them to see you do so, is influential in fostering their development.
Chrysalis Kids School in Bangalore especially focuses on developing social skills in children. Enrol your child at our pre-school in Whitefield to find out how we use eclectic and innovative approaches to develop social skills from an early age.
To know more about social interaction in children, continue reading.
What Are Social Skills?
Social skills are the abilities that we use to interact with others. These skills enable children to communicate with other people by employing verbal and non-verbal signals and transforming their social relations.
Learning to communicate and interact with others is also called socialization. Social skills mean interpretation and communication with speech, facial expression, gesture and body language.
Importance of Developing Social Skills in Children:
Children with fine social skills can effortlessly communicate with others and articulate their feelings. They can also anticipate how other people will respond to them and it enables them to grow into confident individuals and effectively deal with stress.
In addition to aiding them to communicate better with others, social skills also helps the children to achieve goals, boost their self-esteem and succeed in their career. They are critical in building satisfying human relationships. The important thing is that they should be taught at an early age and reinforced in positive ways.
Good social skills lead to being more empathetic. Empathy is an essential social skill that helps your child become more accepting of others. It will help children understand their own and others’ feelings and communicate better without feeling overwhelmed or nervous.
Children with good listening skills can easily infer meaning from nonverbal cues and offer the right feedback. It helps them to make friends and fit into any social setting easily.
How to Develop Social Skills?
If you’re wondering how to develop social skills in children, it’s important that you model appropriate behaviour. Here are some things you can do to develop your child’s social skills.
- Organize Play Dates: If your child is shy, you can understand their comfort level and organize get-togethers with other parents and children. When your child watches you communicate with the parents, they will be naturally inclined to communicate with other children.
- Join a Class: Another way to develop social skills in children is to encourage extracurricular activities. Encourage your child to join school clubs or extracurricular classes. Make sure to cater to your child’s interests and personality. For example, if your child is interested in art, you can enroll them in art and craft classes.
- Story Narration: You can read stories and ask them questions to improve their vocabulary and communication skills. Apart from that, you can relate events from the stories and encourage them to ask questions and participate in conversations.
How Chrysalis Focuses on Developing Social Skills?
At Chrysalis, apart from imparting education, we focus on your child’s overall growth and development by helping them improve their social skills.
Teachers are our most important asset as they have a life-changing impact on children. We train them to develop social skills in children through various initiatives like group activities, stories and Mind in the Making. Through these diverse initiatives, we focus on ensuring children learn the importance of turn-taking, empathy, language and communication skills. During the ongoing pandemic, we ensured that though the children were divided by screens, they did not lose out on interacting with their friends through the online platform. ‘An Evening with My Buddies’, an initiative to sustain their social skills, has been a tremendous success with children enthusiastically joining in the evening to interact with their peers.
We also focus on the children and ensure we help them in – constructing connections, critical thinking and enduring challenges to develop social skills.
So, if you wish to foster social-emotional development in your child and help them transform into a confident individual, contact us today. You can visit our website https://www.chrysaliskids.com/ for contact details.