The Unwritten Rules of Friendship: Simple Strategies to Help Your Child Make Friends
The Unwritten Rules of Friendship: Simple Strategies to Help Your Child Make Friends
“Nobody likes me!” is a complaint that parents hear all too often, and few utterances make them feel more helpless. Now help is at hand: This practical and compassionate guidebook enables parents to sharpen any child’s social skills by pinpointing the child’s particular social strengths and difficulties. Some children have trouble resolving arguments, some find themselves in a constant clash of wills, and some have trouble making any friends at all. Each chapter–from “The Shy Child” to “The Little Adult,” from “The Short-Fused Child” to “The Sensitive Soul”–uses case studies that focus on the specific social conventions that certain children don’t “get,” and offers drills that parents and teachers can use to help children understand the unspoken underpinnings of social situations, the knowledge essential to building, sustaining, and repairing relationships.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars A most amaxing book
Very well thought out, expertly written and easy to apply in a myriad of social situation that may have you and your child puzzled.
I found it to be very helpful and have been able to apply its lessons.
It could even help adults a little in hindsight and will certain benefit your child.
5 Stars The Unwritten Rules of Friendship
Great book with really practical, usable advice. Wonderful those who struggle a little, or a lot with social cues.
5 Stars The Unwritten Rules of Friendship
This is a great book. I haven’t finished it yet, but it has already given me many ideas. Unlike so many “self-help” books out there, this book actually gives you small, specific steps that you can take to change certain behaviors that others might find annoying (such as practical ways to teach someone about “personal space”).
5 Stars Enormously Helpful!
Before, all I could do for my child was to nag and nag about her off-putting behavior. Then the book arrived…and with it clear labels and strategies. I was thrilled with how the writers were able to identify my child, the different drummer, and how they did so much more than just give advice. They identified behaviors I was only generally aware of. And they gave real hands on strategies that will clearly demonstrate to my child her responses in the give and take of relationships. Relationship card games and role playing, just two of the many strategies parents can use to help their child. Even adults will be able to identify their own shortcomings and use the “un-written rules” to improve their own relationships.
5 Stars Finally!!
Finally a book with some answers. Up until now, they all seem to describe the problem, but offer little in the way of solutions. This one has really been helpful.
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