Personality is a very wide term there are a lot of things which come under personality. to develop this you need to break it down into what aspects you want your child to improve. Example, If you feel your child finds it difficult to speak in front of people confidently then you need to work on his public speaking skills. Once this is done tackle another aspect and so on.

Gradually you will be able to see the development of your child personality. If it is not possible for you to work with your child on any aspect. We have a lot of programs that surely cater to all your child needs.

There are a lot of activities which you can indulge with your child to them smarter. Like playing or reading with them, ensuring they sleep well, exercising both physical and psychological (like problem-solving, decision making) or making them do household chores, or enrolling them for skill-building. Skill-building courses need not necessarily be curriculum-based or the most commercial ones. There are other skills also which make the children competent in the future. Some of the courses that we have are Unlocking Emotional Superpower, Public Speaking or Being A Great Detective or Owing the Stage

We at Cue kids (an initiative by Simply Body Talk) encourage kids to remain great observers throughout their life by helping them to enhance their understanding and reading body language. For this, we have a lot of activities in the form of camps or party events ranging from public speaking to emotional intelligence or making them great detectives and lots more.

Some of the effective ways to develop critical thinking in kids is by letting them develop their own hypotheses, making analogies, and reaching conclusion or alternatives of what’s more relevant for them. Say while playing when your child gets stuck on at point don’t jump to help, let them work and try and figure out what to do and how to do and they will reach the solution on their own by trying and intervene only if the kids ask for help.

Let us first understand what exactly, self-confidence is, in simple words

Self-confidence is an attitude about your skills and abilities.

How can you make your child more self-confident?

• Teach him to accept and trust himself and have a sense of control in his life.
• Make him identify his strengths and weaknesses well.
• Teach him to have a positive yet realistic view of himself.
• Ask him to set realistic expectations and goals, communicate assertively, and can handle criticism.
• Building social and people skills can also help the child gain confidence.
• Emotions also play an important part in self-confidence, make your child aware of his emotions and emotionally intelligent.

Social skills are skills that promote effective communication with others, it includes verbal and nonverbal communication. Most of the time children learn social skills by observation. In their day-to-day life, they observe their peers, relatives, teachers, and most importantly parents.

As a parent, you can try the following tips to develop social skills in your kids.

Practice Role Playing:

Pretend-play, with both younger and older children, is a great way for kids to actively practice their social skills. Have your child pretend to be the person they have difficulty talking to or getting along with. This will give you an idea of what this person is like, or at least how your child perceives this particular person. Then switch roles to see how your child does when pretending to interact with the person.

Suggest ways your child can more effectively talk with the individual. Don’t forget to include body language, such as smiling and making eye contact, when advising your child.

Teach Empathy:

If children have a better understanding of how others feel, they are much more likely to feel connected to other people and form positive bonds. Parents suggest teaching empathy by talking about different situations and scenarios with your child.

Ask how other people might feel when each of these things happens. Part of teaching empathy is to help children learn how to actively listen to others. This involves focusing on what others are saying and then thinking about what the speaker has said once the conversation is over.

Know Your Child’s Limits:

Some children are simply more social than others. A child who is shy and introverted should not be expected to interact in the same way as a naturally outgoing child. Some children are comfortable in large settings, while others find it easier to relate to their peers when in smaller groups.

First, while teaching your child, try to focus on one skill at a time.

Though kids are great learners, learning one skill at a time will make them understand in a much better way and learn quickly.

There are some ways for which we can help you, but while teaching Public Speaking, you can follow some simple tricks.

1) Make it an enjoyable game – Make it an interactive game that kids should not feel a burden while learning. For example, encourage your child to speak on any topic in front guest at home.

2) Practice – Doing a practice will build confidence in kids and remove the fear of speaking in front of people.

3) Appreciation – Always try to be more appreciative. It will remove the feeling of hesitation to speaking in front of people. As per my experience, giving positive feedback works very well.

4) Listen to them – Try to listen patiently to whatever your child is trying to convey. They will feel comfortable while speaking and realize that speaking has some value.

Now coming to learn Social Behavior skills, let’s understand this first. What problem you are facing in terms of social behavior or what kind of specific thing you want them to learn. Then we can work on this further.

Identify what part of the public speaking skill is difficult for your child, content building part, speaking, learning what to or the way of presenting in front of people. However, if you are not able to figure how to proceed further, here are some simple public speaking tips for kids, which you can follow to improve your child’s skills.

1) Make it an enjoyable game – Play an interactive game with kids, so they feel much more confident, and there will not be any fear of failure. For example, ask your child to share his views.

2) Practice – Practice is the key point of Public Speaking. Doing a practice removes the fear of speaking in front of people. You can do this at home by making them record any game.

3) Appreciation – Try to be more appreciative. It will remove the feeling of hesitation to speaking in front of people. Constructive criticism is also necessary to improve them but, one constructive criticism with two positive feedbacks will always work.

4) Listen to them – Try to listen patiently to whatever your child is trying to convey. They will feel comfortable while speaking and realize that speaking has some value.

Even though there is no particular age of teaching children anything, researches by many psychologists suggest that there is something called as the sensitive period, the critical period is a time during early postnatal life when the development and maturation of functional properties of the brain, its ‘plasticity’, is strongly dependent on experience or environmental influences. In other words children have an active neuron system that enables them to capture, absorb and retain information. This period is generally from 3 years and lasts up to 12 years. Teaching children seemingly difficult things like public speaking, emotional intelligence etc may not be as difficult since children of this age are like dry sponge and can soak up as much as you give them. Teaching courses like public speaking around age 7 onward is ideal since it gives children a lot of time to form a strong foundation and practice until they enter into the even more competitive world.

Public Speaking course for kids is mainly focused on enhancing communication skills and leadership skills. It helps kids to overcome from nervousness to speak in front of a crowd.

In Public speaking course kids are given different formats and situations to face the audience, through activities which gradually build up in complexity, we give children the exposure of different type of situations of public speaking.

But to start with every parent can encourage his/her child to speak in front of people by following simple basic steps at home.

1) Practice – Practice is the key point of Public Speaking. Doing a practice removes the fear of speaking in front of people. You can do this at home by making them record any story telling session or proving any information about their favorite topic.

2) Make it an enjoyable game – Play an interactive game with kids, so they feel much more confident, and there will not be any fear of failure. For example, ask your child to share his ideas, and thoughts.

3) Appreciation – Try to be more appreciative. It will remove the feeling of hesitation to speaking in front of people. Constructive criticism is also necessary to improve them but, one constructive criticism with two positive feedbacks will always work.

4) Listen to them – Try to listen patiently to whatever your child is trying to convey. They will feel comfortable while speaking and realize that speaking has some value.

Kids are really intelligent and receptive. As simple as it may be to influence them they take both verbal and non-verbal cues very seriously. It is important to actively and healthily communicate with the child.

Sometimes non-verbal methods of communication go a long way. Here are a few ways you can use to communicate with your child non-verbally.

Show them what being confident looks like:

• Standing with a slight gap between the legs and hands and making the body frame a little bigger helps the child look more confident.
• Maintain eye contact with the child. This will help them understand how confident you are, and they would end up doing the same.

  Teach them your non-verbal love language:

• Children need to feel secure and supported. You can show them your love, support and warmth by comforting them and holding them.
• Bend down to your child’s level. This shows you want to be close and helps your child feel secure. It also helps with eye contact, especially for younger children.

  Your voice and tone says a lot:

• Use a pleasant tone of voice and a relaxed body posture and facial expression when you talk with your child. This sends the message that you’re ready to listen. It also makes it easy for your child to tell the difference when you’re not happy with their behavior.
• Even if you want to say something about your child’s mistakes don’t say it in a taunting way. Make your tone firm but not sarcastic. This makes the child even more anxious and resentful.

Social skills are the skills, that need to be learned, refined, and practice. Social skills require strong understanding of body language skills – it is all about using behavior to communicate to improve relationship with peers. You can look for opportunities where you can teach or help your child to do better. Here are some games which you can follow.

Turn-taking games: Encourage your child in the games which involve turn-taking. Like passing the parcel. This is the best way to teach them to have patience and, be respectful towards others.

Group games: These games will help them to boost teamwork, how to play fairly, it is ok to lose games, resolve conflicts, offering help to others. Group games such as Devil’s advocate, catch the dragon’s tail, and much more. This will encourage kids good sportsmanship.

Party games: Introducing any games in such an environment where kids having fun with peers will be more effective when it comes to teaching them social skills. Party games will help kids to understand other’s perspectives like playing cards where it requires choosing solutions.

Well nowadays, parents are more aware about Public speaking courses for kids. And yes, why should not, because Public speaking courses help kids to build confidence to speak, put their views, thoughts in front of the Audience.

CueKids is India’s first company that does skill-building programs for kids based on body language. Our Public speaking courses include a lot more than just developing speeches.
We focus on building a foundation for your child right from confidence building, to their hand gestures walking style, vocabulary building you name it !
All these things are taught in a very fun and interactive way which includes a lot of activities during the class. Small number of students in a batch, so we don’t compromise on quality and personal attention. Every parent can approach us for personal feedback, and we will answer.
We also do Personal coaching in which the course will be customized as per your child’s needs and wants.

Growing children go through a lot of emotional and hormonal ups and downs and so do parents. Communication skills take a lot of self, emotional and social understanding. It is also important that parents understand their own and their kid’s

interaction style

and build their communication based on that. A few simple things that you can do on an everyday basis can include the following :

• Talk about the day’s activities.
• Talk with your child about the books you read together.
• Have conversation with your child about the TV programs and videos you watch together.
• Keep books, magazines, and other reading material where kids can reach them without help.
• Give your child a little space and freedom to express themselves and hear them out.

Games and activities for kids to teach them social skills are the best way to learn good behavior, to learn about emotions when around with people. Games can teach them patience, respect, recognizing body language. Social skills are skills that promote effective interactions with others. Below are a few tips you can try.

Pretend Play: Have your child pretend to be the person they have difficulty talking to or getting along with. This will give you an idea of what this person is like, or at least how your child perceives this particular person. Then switch roles to see how your child does when pretending to interact with the person. Become a teacher, a doctor, will help them to adapt to new situations and respond to emotions.

Suggest ways your child can more effectively talk with the individual. Don’t forget to include body language, such as smiling and making eye contact, when advising your child.

Simon Says: This is a very common game among kids. As they follow the instructions given by another friend. This helps them to be attentive while playing and follow the game rules.

Teaching Empathy: Teaching empathy is to help children learn how to actively listen to others. Games like productive debate, storytelling, puppet shows. This involves focusing on what others are saying and then thinking about what the speaker has said once the conversation is over.

Promote introspection: Children can learn a lot about their emotions and why are they experiencing them. For example games like team sports, the expression mimicking games. This will help them understand themselves which is as important as communicating with someone else. This will allow them to understand the surrounding people.

There are various social skills as well as several ways in which we interact with people on a daily basis. Social skills include written, verbal, nonverbal and visual interaction used to relay a message to others. Common ways in which you exercise your social skills are:

• The language you use
• Cooperating and coordinating in a team
• Organization skills
• The way you manage small or big interactions with strangers
• Your body language
• Eye contact with others when interacting.

How does having good social skills benefit my child?

• Better educational and career outcomes
• Stronger friendships:
• Great Communication Skills
• More Efficiency

First let us understand what are social skills and what qualities do they include?

Social skills are skills that promote effective interactions with others. There are various social skills as well as several ways in which we interact with people on a daily basis. Social skills include written, verbal, nonverbal and visual interaction used to relay a message to others. Common ways in which you exercise your social skills are:

• The language you use
• Cooperating and coordinating in a team
• Organization skills
• The way you manage small or big interactions with strangers
• Your body language
• Eye contact with others when interacting

What can Parents do at home?

• Practice Role Playing: Pretend-play, with both younger and older children, is a great way for kids to actively practice their social skills. Have your child pretend to be the person they have difficulty talking to or getting along with. Suggest ways your child can more effectively talk with the individual. Don’t forget to include body language, such as smiling and making eye contact, when advising your child.
• Teach Empathy :If children have a better understanding of how others feel, they are much more likely to feel connected to other people and form positive bonds. Parents suggest teaching empathy by talking about different situations and scenarios with your child.
• Know Your Child’s Limits: Some children are simply more social than others. A child who is shy and introverted should not be expected to interact in the same way as a child who is naturally outgoing. Some children are comfortable in large settings, while others find it easier to relate to their peers when in smaller groups.

Parenting style means attitude and behaviors, parents show to their kids to manage their children behaviors by controlling them, punishment, caring, and showing affection towards them.

It is important to understand your parenting style, which should be supporting healthy growth and development because it is going to impact them lifelong.

Read more about what effects do your parenting style has on your child.

Authoritarian Parenting: This type of parents demand more out of children but do not take responsibility to explain the child. They attempt to micromanage every step their child takes. They make rules but seldom give explanations for them.

Effects on Children: Children have low self-esteem and low self-confidence since they have hardly done anything according to their wish.

Reliable parenting: Reliable parenting is warm and responsive. They provide guidance and utilize reasoning to make their kids understand.

Effects on Children: Kids become more self-confident and secure about their abilities and are more open to learning new things.

Pessimistic Parenting: Pessimistic parents set very few boundaries and rarely impose any rules over children. These parents are nurturing and warm, but they do not like to say no or to disappoint their children.

Effects on kids: These children struggle with decision-making and since their parents have not made them understand the causes and consequences of things.

So must identify your parenting style, to ensure that your children don’t get negatively affected. Because the way you interact with your child and how you discipline will make their personality.