Helping Kids with Friendships and Social Skills: An Interview with Caroline Maguire

CALM AND CONNECTED - EPISODE 153

Have you noticed social skills missing in your kids? Caroline Maguire, author of Why Will No One Play With Me?, joins me to discuss how to support your child and build them up through play.

Here’s some of the areas we cover:

  • The importance of play

  • How to play with your kids in a role play situation

  • The power of storytelling to explain social situations 

  • Debriefing with your kids and working on your bond together

  • Finding the organic moments to talk to your kids

  • Supporting them through childhood playdates to teenage hangouts

  • Figuring out their baseline and strengths 

  • Using their interests to encourage and build them up

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