TOPIC: Social Skills
How to Become the Parent You Want to Be: An Exercise
After surveying hundreds of parents about the personal parenting traits they desire to exemplify, we have identified ten traits that seem to matter most. In other words, we’ve identified the ten traits that received the most votes.
Eating Out with Kids: Restaurant Behavior
You don’t have to give up dining out, and you don’t have to skip a date night if the babysitter cancels. There are ways to teach children how to behave appropriately in a restaurant so that it is a fun evening out for everyone in the family.
Ask Hal - My Daughter’s Social Skills
Hal,
My daughter is in the first grade and has a hard time with her friends. The girls tend not to want to bother with her and it’s because my daughter still acts a little immature compared to her friends. She sometimes pushes, or pokes them. She is not a bully but I can see she is annoying the other children.
Ask Hal - How Do You Handle Lying?
My five-year-old (who needs to remain nameless) is lying and seems to feel no remorse for it. It’s not just fantastic stories - its lies to avoid consequences, but lies that are so obvious everyone knows she’s lying. What can we do?
