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Social skills support

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fiskaloopa · 23/05/2024 12:17

DD6 is struggling a bit with her friendships.

She's popular at school/ extra curricular activities and has tons of play dates and party invites but I can see that her social skills are not as good as they could be.

There is a very high level of conflict in her friendships (but not at all with us at home or family generally).

She does annoy her friends and doesn't care much and can lack empathy (although I know she's very young still). She's not good at 'fitting in' and compromising and gets upset when things don't go her way. She does things which I think she knows will annoy her friends and will do provocative things like refuse to return a greeting or say no to a request rudely (again not at all like this with family)

School have also picked up issues with her social communication skills but as she's very happy and doing well academically at school and very well behaved in terms of following rules and teacher directions they don't have much to say.

I'd like to help her a bit with this but I'm not sure how. DH and I both work in people jobs and have very well honed people skills but she's not reflecting what we model at all.

What sort of support could we get her and where? We are in north London.

Thanks if you got this far

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TTCJJB · 23/05/2024 12:40

Perhaps something like social stories that you could do together?

fiskaloopa · 23/05/2024 13:02

That sounds good. How do you find them? Or do you have to make them.

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skkyelark · 24/05/2024 13:49

If you want to address a very specific situation, you might need to make it yourself, but if you google 'social stories friendship skills' or 'social stories compromise' there's quite a lot out there on more general topics like how to compromise when you and your friend want to play different things.

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