OUR SOCIAL COACHING GUIDE FOR PARENTS!

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How to Make and Keep Friends: Helping Your Child Achieve  Social Success is our how-to manual for parents of children with social challenges. The easy-to-read format clearly outlines common barriers that hinder friendships, provides actionable tips for overcoming those barriers, and includes suggested language for parents to use to provide support to their kids during unstructured social interactions. Parents play a key role in the formation of friendships. How to Make and Keep Friends: Helping Your Child Achieve Social Success shows parents how to guide their children toward true and meaningful friendship connections. 

Donna and Nadine, both social coaches with extensive experience, have used these coaching tips successfully for many years. In this companion to their book for children, How To Make and Keep Friends: Tips For Kids To Overcome 50 Common Social Challenges, they share their easy-to-implement techniques for coaching kids toward attaining, sustaining, and generalizing improved social skills, including real-life stories of how these same tips have been effective with children attending their social skills programs.

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Updated in 2016! How 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 easily find tips and strategies on a specific topic or social situation. This is a resource for those children who benefit most from direct instruction or learn more effectively using factual materials rather than fictional stories. 

While the reading grade level and content is geared toward elementary school kids, many teens and adults report they are finding these tips on the basics to be helpful. Included are simple and immediately actionable tips to navigate common social situations that can be challenging, such as: * How to Join a Group * How to Safely Handle Angry Feelings * Handling Rejection and Exclusion * Working Things Out & Sharing Fairly * Being a Good Guest and Host * Playground Success * ... and much more! In this updated edition, we have taken the feedback from our reviews and readers and added the "why" of learning each of these skills is important along with practice questions to inspire discussion and role playing of different social situations with children.

 

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The I Feel Mad! Tips for Kids on Managing Angry Feelings workbook provides simple, actionable and proven strategies to help kids manage angry feelings. In this workbook, your child will learn: * the anger rule to follow and what he or she can or cannot do when he or she is feeling angry; * that anger is a normal emotion we all have, but managing anger appropriately is a critical life skill; * how to identify the physical sensations of anger and implement strategies before it becomes too hot to handle; * a menu of safe strategies to choose from when angry situations arise; * and effective problem-solving skills and specific reactions to replace an angry response. 

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ALL OF OUR 2015 BLOG POSTS IN ONE PLACE

Many kids struggle with social nuances which can make it difficult for them to form lasting friendships. To help kids during those times, parents and kids often need quick social skills advice that is easily understood and even easier to do in the moment. Our tips have been successful for children with mild to moderate social challenges. While some of the children who have learned these techniques have a specific special needs diagnosis, many do not. Any child who struggles socially and needs a little extra support will benefit from our tips and strategies found in our books. In 2015, we started a blog that includes even more tips and strategies on our website at www.howtomakeandkeepfriends.com and this book contains all of last years blog posts in one place!