Table of Contents
Introduction For Parents x
Hello Friends xii
Chapter 1 What Are Social Skills (And Who Cares About Them, Anyway)? 1
Activity 1 Decode Your Social Skill Superpowers 2
Activity 2 Going Blindfolded 4
Activity 3 When to Use Your Superpowers 5
Activity 4 What's the Story? 7
Activity 5 My Superpower Score 11
Activity 6 What Holds Me Back? 14
Chapter 2 How To Talk To Anybody … And Everybody! 17
Activity 7 Conversation Starters 19
Activity 8 Goldilocks and the Three Questions 21
Activity 9 Throw It Back! 23
Activity 10 Keep the Conversation Ball Moving 25
Activity 11 Interruption Experiment 27
Activity 12 No One's the Boss of Us! 30
Activity 13 Spiderweb Talks 32
Activity 14 I'm Interested! Giving Body Language Clues 34
Activity 15 Time to Say Goodbye-Already'? 36
Chapter 3 Listen Up! 40
Activity 16 Body Bubbles 42
Activity 17 Practicing Patience 44
Activity 18 I Get It! 46
Activity 19 Are They Interested? Decoding Body Language Clues 48
Activity 20 The "Spreading Care" Experiment 51
Chapter 4 Making Friends 55
Activity 21 Word Salad 56
Activity 22 Reframing Thought Bubbles 58
Activity 23 Finding My Awesomeness in Threes 61
Activity 24 What Do I Tell Myself? 63
Activity 25 How Do Others See Me? 64
Activity 26 What Ingredients Are in a Friend? 66
Activity 27 Map It Out! 68
Activity 28 Dos and Don'ts for Making Friends 70
Activity 29 Double Dutch 72
Chapter 5 Keeping Friends 77
Activity 30 How Sensitive Am I? 78
Activity 31 Common Social Rules vs. Sensitive Rules 81
Activity 32 When Three's a Crowd 84
Activity 33 The Friend Playbook 85
Activity 34 Did You Hear? 88
Activity 35 Let's Compromise! 90
Activity 36 But We? re All Doing It! 93
Activity 37 What Do I Stand For? 96
Activity 38 To Tell or Not to Tell? 98
Chapter 6 In School And Out Of School 102
Activity 39 I Spy With My Little Eye 103
Activity 40 I Double Dare You! 105
Activity 41 Connect the Dots 107
Activity 42 Random Acts of Kindness 109
Activity 43 Who, What, When? 111
Chapter 7 At Home And In Other Homes 115
Activity 44 Sharing Experiment 116
Activity 45 The Should or Shouldn't Game 118
Activity 46 Privacy, Please! 121
Activity 47 I Aim to Impress! 123
Activity 48 Serving Up Good Table Manners 125
Activity 49 Can I Give You a Hand? 127
Activity 50 Collage of My New Talents 130
Resources 133
Index 134