Raise Your Child's Social IQ

We all know that today's youth are tomorrow's aspiring adults. In today's society, with negativity floating in the aura of many individuals, this thought can often seem quite daunting. I believe most parents fret over the simplest of problems in their children, but not necessarily those that are important to help shape society.

After reading Cathi Cohen's, Raise Your Child's Social IQ: Stepping Stones to People Skills for Kids, I believe she has offered a simple guide for all parents to adequately handle any disturbing behavior in children from whining to inability to work with others. Teamwork is essential in any and every career and is important to the livelihood of our children. After all, there is no "I" in team, so we certainly should be instilling this attribute in our children at a young age. We know the drill, practice makes perfect, so why not allow our children to practice longer with some positive enforcement?

As a parent, I'm thrilled that there is a resource that can assist parents in assisting our children to become better adults, at any age. I truly feel that if we start to instill good behaviors in children while they are young, preferably as young as possible, they will continue to "treat others as they want to be treated" as an adult and continue their lives with social acceptance.

There is an array of topics discussed in the book, Raise Your Child's IQ, including teaching children how to participate in groups, communicating and conversing with others, reading social signals, raising self-esteem, coping with teasing, managing stress, solving social problems, resolving conflicts, managing anger, and utilizing all of these elements of social necessity together.

The author shares basic forms of offering help to children that have a weakness in any of these areas, including role-playing, talking, finding solutions, ensuring that children understand the concepts, and assisting children in the "real world" when they attempt to ante-up to their social weakness.

I've seen many adults that can't pull off putting all of these social needs together. As a parent, I've not only learned how to instill certain thoughts into my children, but also how to handle some issues that we as adults can have, and how to approach these same situations with adults.

This book is an excellent resource for any person: parent, educator, nanny, baby-sitter, to review. Keeping the focus of uniting our children for the future at hand is every person's responsibility. Enforcing simple steps with children to better themselves through practice is an excellent foundation to creating a great team-oriented future.