Why children feel shy while communicating to others in public? This may be because of lack of confidence. Also, they are not in habit of interacting with people so they kind of mostly avoid meeting new people. Homeschooled students are facing such problems due to lack of social skills.
What do you mean by Homeschooled students?
Homeschooled students means when students are doing education by sitting at home with guardians rather than getting admission to nearby public or private school. It is very difficult for them to get socially comfortable with others. They don’t have habit of meeting new people and interacting with them in daily life. In such cases, they feel as if they are inferior to others. But, parents can normalize this by boosting their confidence through some co-curricular activities.
Since the pandemic happened, traditional method of learning has been replaced by online classes. Every student has turned to homeschooled students due to complete shut down of schools. Well, the number has increased for the students who have been experiencing the lack of social skills. Don’t worry this blog includes all the tips which will help you in overcoming the social awkwardness.
Tips to Improve social skills
- Participation in extra co-curricular activities can really help in raising social skills among the students. Now, the question is how it can help. The answer to this is when you encourage your children to participate in group extra curriculum activities, they get chance to interact with other fellow mates sharing common interest. Such activities include group of children as a team like sports activity, dance classes, guitar classes and many more. Unfortunately, activities like sports or any other physical activity is not available because of the pandemic. However, there are many platforms which are available right now offering online dance classes , online guitar classes , books clubs and many more.
- Family Time has a positive impact on child’s overall personality development. Home is the first place where child learn how to communicate with others. Spending quality family time together can help in building string relationship with family members and children will feel comfortable in sharing all their problems with them. In addition to this, family outings can give children a chance to explore the environment.
- Having open ended conversation with your child will help in normalizing if someone out there ask how was your day. Parents must ask their kids about their day, how they spend whole day, what have they learned about and how are they feeling. This will encourage them to think about their emotions critically so that they can express their thoughts and opinions clearly. This also helps in building strong bond when as a parent you show active interest in their life which is somewhere missing these days. As parents are so occupied with their work that they don’t even get time to make their child learn and study. That’s why they rely on online classes. Moreover, open end conversations help children in learning valuable social skills.
- Expressing verbally is not only social skill, one can express their emotions in the form of creative art. Parents can introduce the trend of expressing your feelings through creative outlets. Many people express their emotions in the form of poetry, art, painting, song, music, etc. Encouraging them in such activities will really help in personality development as well as build self-confidence. All in all, it will help in contributing string communication skills and mature thinking
Lastly, I would end this blog by saying that sometimes it’s the nature of a child that hinders him to initiate the conversation. This problem can be solved if child is given adequate support and a safe environment where he learns to develops social skills and develop a strong personality. Parents and teachers can boost the confidence of the child by interacting with them regularly on various topics.
