Raise Your Child’s Social IQ
Stepping Stones to Building Friendships
Working with groups of kids can be tremendously satisfying—it can also be challenging and frustrating. If you’re a teacher, an athletic coach, a camp counselor or anyone responsible for overseeing a group of kids, this book is for you! Outnumbered, Not Outsmarted! gives you the comprehensive resources you need to deal with the most common problems that arise among children in group settings. With great advice on everything from dealing with bullying to the right way to discipline, this useful guide will help you put your best foot forward as an adult leader.
Cathi’s Books
In order to provide crucial social and emotional scaffolding for our children, we need to start by taking a look at ourselves as parents. And I mean really look. This is not about how many of their soccer games you attend or the number of times you screamed at them and took away their phones. It’s about evaluating your strengths, as well as areas that need improvement, and then very purposefully moving forward armed with that information.
Parents, this book offers direct, sense-making, step-by-step exercises that you can do with your children to increase their social skills and awareness. Based on the highly successful social skills taught for many years in Cathi Cohen’s training groups, Raise Your Child’s Social IQ provides parents with the structure to work on skills at home—how to join a group, how to choose friends, how to notice what people around them are feeling, how to handle angry feelings and much, much more. This updated version features new sections on cyberbullying and social media.
Many children have difficulty making friends on their own; they need help. Research has shown that social skills can be taught and the most dramatic improvements are accomplished in a group setting. Camp, with its new people and activities, is a natural setting to develop social skills and build strong friendships.