How to develop young children s social communication skills

In kindergarten, there is always such a type of child, especially do not like to speak, poor language skills, do not interact with others, showing obvious lack of social communication skills. As teachers, we try to find ways to improve them, but often with little success. Children's poor communication skills are closely related to children's family education environment, especially parents' parenting concepts, and it can be said that parents' parenting concepts and methods play a decisive role.

The concept of parenting refers to the views or opinions held by parents on issues such as children's development, ways and means of educating children, and children's plasticity in the process of educating and raising children, including children's views, development views and parents' views. In terms of the development of social communication skills, there are two direct and indirect ways of parental influence on children. The direct impact is manifested in:

Parents are concerned about children's social interactions, consciously train them in social interactions, involve them in decision-making on certain matters in the family, and provide them with opportunities to socialize, all of which will promote the development of children's social communication skills. The indirect effects are as follows: parent-child attachment and daily interaction between parents and children in early childhood are the experimental sites for children to develop peer relationships.

In addition, parents have strong social communication skills and better parent-child relationships, which also imperceptibly affect the development of children's social communication skills.

Based on the relevant theories and practices, we focus on individual children's case studies, focusing on improving the family upbringing environment and close cooperation with the home, so that these children's language expression and social communication skills can be significantly developed and improved.

Here's how to develop children's social skills:

1) Provide opportunities and encourage interaction: Create a series of opportunities for children to play and interact cooperatively, and support them to interact with each other in a positive way. Stories, games, singing and other ways can be used to encourage children to participate and share.

2) Develop emotional intelligence: Encourage young children to express their emotions and needs while helping them learn how to adjust their emotions, understand and empathize with the feelings of others, and build friendly relationships.

3) Encourage sharing and cooperation: Encourage children to share toys and objects, as well as participate in activities with other children and solve problems collaboratively. This can help young children understand the benefits of teamwork and mutual support for each other and the group as a whole.

4) Recognition and encouragement: Praise children's positive behavior and good social skills, encourage them to establish and maintain positive and healthy interpersonal relationships, and increase their self-confidence and self-esteem.

5) With the help of kindergarten teachers: Kindergarten teachers can provide a warm, supportive, and safe environment to develop children's social skills, and they can encourage children to communicate and cooperate with each other through classroom activities and role-plays.

6) Provide support and advice to parents: Young children learn a lot about social skills in the family, so communication with parents is very important. Teachers can provide support and advice to parents, such as participating in community activities and organizing games with families.

In conclusion, improving children's social skills requires a variety of strategies and requires parents, teachers and children to work together to develop positive and healthy relationships.

The methods for developing children's social communication skills are as follows:

1. Self-awareness: develop self-confidence, self-esteem, and independent personality characteristics.

The main contents include: listening to others' views, opinions, suggestions, etc.; Learn to express personal wishes, ideas, evaluations, and express a variety of emotions; Self-confidence, autonomy and a sense of competence; learn to make decisions; Establish an initial awareness of ownership and privacy.

2. Interpersonal attitudes and strategies: learn the attitude of sincerity, equality, respect and trust towards others, and be able to regulate the behavior of self-esteem and others with a variety of appropriate communication strategies and self-discipline rules.

The main contents include: willing to interact with people and able to interact relatively smoothly; Experience sharing and reciprocity, taking turns and exchanging; Willing to exchange information and feelings; Seek help as appropriate; experience discussion and consultation; Have a certain social adaptability.

3. Cooperation: Experience and accept the sense of belonging, division of labor and cooperation, rules and discipline, and the awareness and ability of integrity required by modern social civilization.

4. Social emotion: form a warm and emotional relationship between children and others, and society, experience the diversity of emotions and expressions, love their parents, elders, teachers, peers, love for the collective, love for their hometown, love for the motherland, and understand and accept multiculturalism.

The main contents include: gratitude and love; Caring for and helping others; Be willing to respect and accept others, appreciate and tolerate others.

Encourage your child to go out: If you want to develop your child's social skills, let your child go out. When children play with other friends, they can gradually learn to make friends, trust others, respect others, help others in their interactions with others, etc., and strive to cultivate excellent qualities that contribute to interpersonal relationships.

Don't interrupt your child casually, respect your child: Give your child a truly equal level of communication, and your child will understand the importance and skills of communication. For example, when you have a conversation with your child, you can listen without interrupting your child's words, and at the same time put forward your own views and opinions for your child's reference.

Pay attention to respecting the child, respecting the child's tone, respecting the child's privacy, and do not criticize the child in front of others.

Enrich children's vocabulary and knowledge: Social skills are more reflected in communication skills, and it is essential to give children good communication skills and enrich children's vocabulary and knowledge. One of the ways to give children more vocabulary is to read.

Cultivating children's habit of loving reading can allow children to enrich themselves in reading, learn more about things they don't know or don't see in reading, and enrich their vocabulary. You can also take your children to get in touch with nature and society. This kind of insight can enrich children's language system and provide rich content and materials for children's language expression.

That's why we always say that children who have seen the world are more likely to express themselves and be more confident.

Exercise children's speaking skills: This is to allow children to learn to express their opinions in front of others. For children who are not good at expressing their opinions, parents should first analyze the reasons.

Some may be shy, others may lack assertiveness, and then train the child in a targeted manner. If it is because the child is shy, you can first let him talk more in front of his relatives at home, then express his opinion in front of some good friends, and finally try to speak his mind generously in front of the public. If there is a lack of assertiveness, should fathers and mothers consider their own attitudes and have a genuine respect for their children?

Master communication skills and rules: In the process of interacting with others, children who are polite, cooperative, shared, and well-behaved tend to be more popular with their colleagues. Because these are children's signs of respect for others, in the process of communication, you have to respect others first, so that others can respect you more.

Therefore, in this regard, parents should help their children to develop the following awareness: In other words, consider the opinions and suggestions of partners. When they disagree with each other, they should consult with each other.

You have to follow the rules in the game, and you can't cheat if you lose. When you want to play with others, first ask politely. Respect your partner, listen attentively when others say or suggest, understand what others mean, and don't interject casually and disturb others.

Know how to appreciate the advantages of others and tolerate others: appreciating others and tolerating others is the premise for children to please others, and accepting others can not only make them get more friends, but also allow children to recognize win-win cooperation from the bottom of their hearts.

The cultivation of children's communication skills should let children have more contact with other children, and should also tell children about some problems of politeness, so that children can take the initiative to contact others, and parents should not interfere.

First of all, parents must set a good example for their children. When encountering some things, we must let the children face them first, don't always rely on their parents, and let the children play more with the children, so that the children's personality can become very cheerful, and often tell the children more stories, and often play some games with the children they like to play, and you can also guide the children to read more books, so that you can cultivate the children's communication skills.

You should communicate with your child more often, ask for your child's opinion often, respect your child's ideas, and often take your child out for parties.