How to Make & Keep Friends: Tips for Kids to Overcome 50 Common Social Challenges, Paperback

Contributor(s):

• Author: Nadine Briggs
• Author: Donna Shea

Updated in 2016How to Make & Keep Friends: Tips for Kids to Overcome 50 Common Social Challenges offers social skills and friendship advice presented in a reference guide format, using lists to quickly discover tips and strategies on a specific topic or social situation to help kids find and make friends. Our friendship book for kids is a social skills resource for those children who benefit most from direct instruction to get them thinking or learn more effectively using factual materials rather than fictional social stories to succeed socially. While all children will benefit from the tips in the book, it has been especially beneficial to children with ADHD, Social Anxiety, Asperger's, Non-Verbal Learning Disabilities, Sensory Integration Dysfunction and High Functioning Autism. Included are simple to implement and immediately actionable tips to navigate everyday social situations that can be challenging or awkward for kids, such as: -How to Join a Group -How to Start a Conversation -How to Handle Strong Emotions & Feelings -Handling Rejection and Being Excluded -Dealing with Bullies -Working Things Out & Sharing Fairly -Personal Space -Playground Success - and much moreIn this updated edition of our first and best-selling friendship book for kids in our series, we have added the "why" of learning each of these skills is essential along with practice questions to inspire discussion and role-playing of different social situations with children.