Today’s world is all about showing your best social skills and communication skills for marketing yourself. The budding entrepreneurs constantly need to sell themselves and market their business ideas. To bucket up the investors for the business, one needs to attend social gatherings and socialize with people to get them involved in their venture plan. However, in the workplace, these skills can be an essential aspect of staff interaction, planning, and collaboration. In this article, we discuss what social skills are, how to apply them in the workplace and why developing social skills is so important.
We are aware that teaching children social skills is a challenging goal. It is essential to understand that parental desires (such as responding to their behavior in a particular situation, etc.) and concerns can play a role in this, beyond the child's age.
As parents, several thoughts may cross your mind. Will any child take away your child's toy? Before another child picks up the preferred truck, will your child be the first to grab it? If your child pushes another child with a three-wheeled bike and sits down, what will be the reaction of the parents on the other side? And so on.
It is crucial to communicate and understand that instead of worrying about these things, parents need to pay attention to the better upbringing of their children. Parents need to teach their children how to control their emotions. Emotions play a fundamental role in any mutual relationship. Another vital aspect is to teach children to generate emotional intelligence. The third thing is to teach them how to express their needs and emotions without resorting to physical harm.
When your child learns these things, believe me, they will play a more important role in staying satisfied and happy in life than in any academic or financial field or any other traditional success. This is why social scientists give more importance to emotional intelligence in comparison to traditional IQ in competitions because children who can control their emotions and establish pleasant relationships tend to achieve more success in their educational and practical lives.
Below are some useful pieces of advice that can assist parents in their children's upbringing:
1. Assure Emotional Understanding
Children who receive more attention from their parents, guardians, and other family members for their emotions tend to develop a higher emotional inclination towards others. Research has proven that emotional inclination plays a fundamental role in establishing successful mutual relationships.
2. Stay Close During Play
During playtime, children become emotionally charged with other children through mutual conversations. If you stay close to your children during play, you can guide them. For instance, 'Is Beta, is date okay with you?' When your child feels that you are present, they will be less likely to resort to physical harm to establish their dominance.
3. Allow Children to Choose During Turns
Usually, the duration of a child's turn is determined by the elders, creating fear in the child. For example, if they are playing cricket, they fear that now someone will snatch it from them. In reality, this habit of appropriating things from other children is developed, and they begin to claim ownership excessively. If you have instilled the habit of emotional sharing in your child, they will use the toy for a while according to their comfort and then happily pass it on to the next child.
4. Avoid Imposing Pressure for Sharing
Imposing pressure tends to cultivate a resistance to sharing instead of promoting the habit of sharing in children. Instead, instill the notion of taking turns. 'Now (take the child's name), it's their turn, and then your turn will come.' Avoid phrases that create pressure like 'Now,' 'Immediately,' etc.
5. Appreciate and Explain
Research indicates that when parents appreciate sharing in their children, they tend to share more with others but only when they are in front of their parents. This is because at the time of appreciation, the meaning for children is not to gain their parents' attention beyond that. However, when you tell them, 'Look, Beta, how happy (mention the child's name) is taking their turn in the train,' they will feel that children are enjoying their turn.
6. Teach Self-Confidence
If your child gives away their toy to another child each time and then feels unhappy afterward, instill the habit of self-confidence and intervene by saying, 'Do you not want to give this toy right now? Alright?' Then, assure your child that they can use the toy and tell the next child later, 'I am playing with it right now.'
7. Learn the Language of Emotions
Giving names to emotions is a way to promote emotional qualities in children verbally rather than physically. For example, when a bird chirps, your child, frightened, jumps. Instead of physical responses, you can try to put this quality into words: 'The dog's barking is quite scary, but you are entirely safe towards the wall. You don't need to be scared.'
8. Stay Calm
Children learn to control their emotions better when their parents remain calm during difficult situations. Instead of being worried, parents need to provide a sense of security by staying calm. When you remain calm and make your child feel secure, they will learn the art of controlling their emotions. Never forget that they are children.
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