Ways to encourage Helping, Sharing, and Caring behaviors in your child
1. Children are the best copycats! Model caring behaviors for your child. Help other people out of the kindness of your heart and let the child participate when possible.
2. Make time for group play, whether it be a planned play date or casual interaction at the local playground. Play time is a perfect opportunity to develop social skills- making new friends, sharing, teamwork, starting and holding conversations, manners and more.
3. Label feelings & emotions expressed during play. Feelings are complicated! By putting a name to a feeling, the child gains some control over the emotion and may eventually be able to say “That makes me jealous!”
4. Help the child see how their behavior affects others. Ask “How do you think Margie feels when you color on her paper?”
5. During a social conflict, involve the child or children involved in problem solving. Gather ideas and examine how each might resolve the problem at hand, pick one together and proceed!
6. Giving the child age-appropriate chores will give them a sense of contribution to the household.
7. We all make mistakes. Let the child see you make apologies. Apologize to your children too. They are learning forgiveness.
8. Be gracious. Count your blessings together. Send Thank You notes. Show appreciation to the people around you for what they do.
9. Point out facial expressions in illustrations of books you read together. Talk about what feelings it might be expressing as well as what might make the character feel better. The child gets the benefit of gaining “emotional scripts” through reading, something they can act out next time they need the skill.
1. Children are the best copycats! Model caring behaviors for your child. Help other people out of the kindness of your heart and let the child participate when possible.
2. Make time for group play, whether it be a planned play date or casual interaction at the local playground. Play time is a perfect opportunity to develop social skills- making new friends, sharing, teamwork, starting and holding conversations, manners and more.
3. Label feelings & emotions expressed during play. Feelings are complicated! By putting a name to a feeling, the child gains some control over the emotion and may eventually be able to say “That makes me jealous!”
4. Help the child see how their behavior affects others. Ask “How do you think Margie feels when you color on her paper?”
5. During a social conflict, involve the child or children involved in problem solving. Gather ideas and examine how each might resolve the problem at hand, pick one together and proceed!
6. Giving the child age-appropriate chores will give them a sense of contribution to the household.
7. We all make mistakes. Let the child see you make apologies. Apologize to your children too. They are learning forgiveness.
8. Be gracious. Count your blessings together. Send Thank You notes. Show appreciation to the people around you for what they do.
9. Point out facial expressions in illustrations of books you read together. Talk about what feelings it might be expressing as well as what might make the character feel better. The child gets the benefit of gaining “emotional scripts” through reading, something they can act out next time they need the skill.
10. Praise your child’s acts of empathy, or attempts at such. Praise is powerful!
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