The activities are designed to encourage all children to overcome their shyness, build confidence and make new friends. Day One of our sessions ensures that kids mingle well and are comfortable with one another and the trainer.
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You can opt for a free consult with our trainer. We will understand your child’s interests and personality and suggest the best course for them
Our group courses, online and offline, are for kids of age 7-12 years. Our personal coaching modules are for children of age 10-15 years.
Children are great observers right from a very young age. While interacting with kids you might have observed they react to things correctly, and they can’t articulate what they are feeling. So, it is really important for kids to develop some social skills, to be ready for the future.
For enhancing this skill of kids we at Cuekids (an initiative of Simply Body Talk) offers some courses in which you can enroll your child.
Emotional intelligence course: In this, unlock your emotional superpower course, by using lots of interactive activities, games, role-plays and craft work, we teach kids to be able to understand, comprehend, and tackle their emotions and thus become more emotionally intelligent.
Here is the Link: Unlock your Emotional SuperPower
Be Future Ready Course: Through this future ready course camp your kid will learn to sharpen his social skills to understand and interact better with the world around him. This he will be doing by exploring what different professions are all about, and what it means to play out different roles. By learning different styles of conversing and using the right body language as per the situation, your child would become prepared to adapt to any situation.
Here is the Link: Course Be Future Ready
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Developing Skills
Games and activities for kids to teach them social skills are the best way to learn good behavior, to learn about emotions when around with people. Games can teach them patience, respect, recognizing body language. Social skills are skills that promote effective interactions with others. Below are a few tips you can try.
Pretend Play: Have your child pretend to be the person they have difficulty talking to or getting along with. This will give you an idea of what this person is like, or at least how your child perceives this particular person. Then switch roles to see how your child does when pretending to interact with the person. Become a teacher, a doctor, will help them to adapt to new situations and respond to emotions.
Suggest ways your child can more effectively talk with the individual. Don’t forget to include body language, such as smiling and making eye contact, when advising your child.
Simon Says: This is a very common game among kids. As they follow the instructions given by another friend. This helps them to be attentive while playing and follow the game rules.
Teaching Empathy: Teaching empathy is to help children learn how to actively listen to others. Games like productive debate, storytelling, puppet shows. This involves focusing on what others are saying and then thinking about what the speaker has said once the conversation is over.
Promote introspection: Children can learn a lot about their emotions and why are they experiencing them. For example games like team sports, the expression mimicking games. This will help them understand themselves which is as important as communicating with someone else. This will allow them to understand the surrounding people.
Growing children go through a lot of emotional and hormonal ups and downs and so do parents. Communication skills take a lot of self, emotional and social understanding. It is also important that parents understand their own and their kid’s interaction style and build their communication based on that. A few simple things that you can do on an everyday basis can include the following :
- Talk about the day’s activities.
- Talk with your child about the books you read together.
- Have conversation with your child about the TV programs and videos you watch together.
- Keep books, magazines, and other reading material where kids can reach them without help.
- Give your child a little space and freedom to express themselves and hear them out.
After participating in a competition and giving their best performance, the child loses, sounds familiar, here how the child cope with this situation would determine whether they have ample of confidence or lack of it.Parents and experts have a crucial to play as they take necessary steps to enhance the child’s confidence by say praising their efforts and telling them how they can learn from their mistakes and become better.This is one way of enhancing their confidence but there are other ways as well like enrolling them for camps and courses which enhances their skills for them to become more self-confident.
Social skills are skills that promote effective communication with others, it includes verbal and nonverbal communication. Most of the time children learn social skills by observation. In their day-to-day life, they observe their peers, relatives, teachers, and most importantly parents.
As a parent, you can try the following tips to develop social skills in your kids.
Practice Role Playing:
Pretend-play, with both younger and older children, is a great way for kids to actively practice their social skills. Have your child pretend to be the person they have difficulty talking to or getting along with. This will give you an idea of what this person is like, or at least how your child perceives this particular person. Then switch roles to see how your child does when pretending to interact with the person.
Suggest ways your child can more effectively talk with the individual. Don’t forget to include body language, such as smiling and making eye contact, when advising your child.
Teach Empathy:
If children have a better understanding of how others feel, they are much more likely to feel connected to other people and form positive bonds. Parents suggest teaching empathy by talking about different situations and scenarios with your child.
Ask how other people might feel when each of these things happens. Part of teaching empathy is to help children learn how to actively listen to others. This involves focusing on what others are saying and then thinking about what the speaker has said once the conversation is over.
Know Your Child’s Limits:
Some children are simply more social than others. A child who is shy and introverted should not be expected to interact in the same way as a naturally outgoing child. Some children are comfortable in large settings, while others find it easier to relate to their peers when in smaller groups.
Emotions
Yes it is very much important to promote social skills and emotional skills in children for effective interactions with others, understanding others and expressing themselves in a better way. The following are points are other essential reasons to be considered, to promote social/emotional skills in children.
- Good social skills help kids to have a brighter future.
- Kids become empathetic, good listener, which help them to form better and solid friendships and relationships.
- It improves good communication skills. Being able to convey our thoughts and ideas effectively may be the single most important skill that we can develop in life. Helping kids to develop them early on will definitely set your child up for success.
- Social skills also imply learning to organize and work efficiently without hassle or chaos.
Emotional intelligence (EI) refers to the ability to perceive, control, and evaluate emotions. Some researchers suggest that emotional intelligence can be learned and strengthened, while others claim it’s an inborn characteristic.
There are a few simple steps you can do to develop your child’s emotional intelligence
- Focus on your own emotions first.
- Try to understand what you feel in different scenarios and identify if your child feels the same way or differently.
- Find both yours and your child’s emotional trigger.
- An emotional trigger would be the things that cause you to feel or respond to a certain emotion. You can do this by introspecting your behavior and responses.
- Encourage your child to observe others and their emotions.
- Good emotional intelligence can help children tackle difficulties effectively.
Impact of Emotional Intelligence on children
They start thinking before reacting Emotionally intelligent children have greater Self-Awareness Children develop higher empathy for others
We should expose our kids to programs which help them emotional intelligence.
Empathy is extremely important special at a young age. Research has shown that emotional intelligence and empathy in kids is thought to be more important life skill than IQ.
With a lot of experience in teaching kids different life skills. We have developed a course with helps kids understand their own and other emotions to decide how to respond in different and new situations. We achieve this by teaching everything in the form of various activities
There are a few simple steps you can do to develop emotional intelligence
- Focus on your own emotions first.
- Try to understand what do you feel in different scenarios.
- Find your emotional trigger.
- An emotional trigger would be the things that cause you to feel or respond in a certain emotion. You can do this by introspecting your behaviour and responses.
- Start to observe others and their emotions.
- Once you are aware of your own emotions you will understand your start to develop an intuition for other feelings.
Emotional intelligence is very important in today’s world.
We should expose our kids to programs which help them emotional intelligence.
Parenting
Self-esteem may be defined as how much you appreciate and like yourself regardless of the circumstances. Your self-esteem is defined by many factors including Self-confidence, feeling of security, identity, sense of belonging, feeling of competence.
It also impacts your decision-making process, your relationships, your emotional health, and your overall well-being.
Help your child learn to do things : Encourage your child to at least try out things by themselves. Like dressing by themselves, reading books, riding bicycles.
Praise your child but do not over-praise : It’s always good to praise your child constructively. Focus on attempts, instead of results.
Boost their strengths : Help your kids to convert their weaknesses into strengths. They will feel good about themselves.
Let kids help : Helping and kind acts build self-esteem and other good feelings.
Self-esteem influences motivation, as people with a healthy, positive view of themselves understand their potential and may feel inspired to take on new challenges.
There are a few tips that we have figured out after working with a lot of kids which you can use to help your child with stress.
-Schedule relaxing activities: Sometimes fun activity like sport and games can also become stressful and competitive.
-Reward your child’s brave behaviours: It can be a small treat, praise or a hug.
-Encourage good sleep hygiene: Good be time routine can help your child to relax before sleeping.
-Help your child to deal with their emotions: This is the most important part you need to help your child, with how to deal with their emotions.
This can also be done by taking outside help to make your child be more emotionally intelligent. Which will allow them to manage their emotions better. Hence experiencing less stress.
Parenting is not an easy job. Modern parenting is no cakewalk, that is why understanding your parenting style and how it affects your child is important. Here are some tips which you can try.
Good Communication: Communication is a very important skill we all know that. Nowadays, kids are spending astounding time in front of the screen and because of this shift, they are losing touch with their communication skills. Talking respectfully, teaching them the importance of pauses, promote introspection are some examples you can try.
Know your parenting style: Did you know that, as a parent, your parenting style can affect the intellectual, emotional, and social intelligence of your child. Your awareness towards your child’s feelings and how your ability to soothe, empathize and guide them at the right moment shall determine their success in all walks of life and relationships.
Understand the parenting body language: If you think kids are not listening to you, but they are observing you, they are paying attention to your body language. So it is essential to show positive body language to show your kids that you are trying to understand their feelings.
We understand parenting is a very difficult task, but we need to focus on the emotional and social development of our children. Try these tips to bring up your child secure, and confident.