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Relationship skills are the ability to establish and maintain healthy and rewarding relationships with diverse individuals and groups.
See the fact file below for more information on Relationship Skills for Kids, or alternatively, you can download our 21-page worksheet pack to utilise within the classroom or home environment.
Key Facts & Information
What are relationship skills?
- Communication – By developing effective communication skills, we can influence the way we interact with others. It can be verbal and non-verbal, like body language. The ability to convey emotions, values, and needs develops communication skills.
- Empathy – This is the ability to understand someone else’s way of looking at a situation, even if you see it differently, and to understand their feelings even when you aren’t in the same situation.
- Leadership – The confidence to initiate activities and to lead and influence peers. Leaders possess listening and decision-making skills and the ability to adapt to situations that may affect their goals.
- Cooperation – Flexibility, awareness of self and others, respect for others’ thoughts and opinions, and listening to have effective problem-solving capability as a group.
- Ability to resist inappropriate social pressure – Self-management skills can help commit to the “decision not to engage in unwanted, unsafe, unethical behavior,” resulting in values of dignity and self-respect.
- Negotiating conflict – The ability to resolve conflicts either by positive compromise, achieving mutually satisfactory resolutions, discussing the problem, brainstorming solutions, and arriving at the right decisions.
- Listening – The ability to consciously make the effort to hear and comprehend what the other person is saying and respond appropriately. It includes making appropriate eye contact, limiting distractions, utilizing facial expressions, and providing appropriate responses.
- Cultural competency – The ability to understand, appreciate, and interact with people from different cultures or belief systems. It is also the ability to respect and pay homage to other cultures when certain practices are borrowed.
- Standing up for the rights of others – The ability to rightly come in the defense of a relative, a friend, or even a stranger. This comes with the proper discernment of when and when not to act and the ability to recognize the risks and benefits of doing the right thing.
Benefits of building relationship skills
- Research reveals that children with relationship and social skills perform better academically, have better relationships with peers and teachers, and engage in less risky behavior.
- Building relationship skills at an early age also tend to lead to forming bonds and a close-knit community.
- When kids learn how to form relationships with others, they will stand up to bullies and support and defend those who are bullied. This increases care and concern for others and lessens cases of bullying.
- In a diverse society, relationship building helps children get past stereotyping because they learn how to understand others, accept differences, and find ways to work together.
- A result of building relationships is compassion for others. With it comes empathy, care, trust, and understanding, which make interactions meaningful.
- Relationship skills also motivate kids to contribute to the well-being of their family, friends, school, community, and the environment.
- They also lead to kids recognizing situational demands and opportunities.
How to improve relationship skills
- Appreciate yourself – Learn your strengths and weaknesses and develop skills you are interested in.
- Develop emotional intelligence – Developing the ability to understand and manage one’s own emotions, and those of the people around you increases emotional awareness.
- Seek or offer support and help when needed – Communicating the desire to use advice for improvement shows motivation. It also shows openness to new ideas, learning new skills, or willingness to improve. Offering support also develops empathy.
- Get involved – Another way to develop relationship-building skills is to get involved with different activities and establish communication with peers.
- Avoid getting involved in horrible activities and bad influences. Choose friends wisely and avoid joining in gossip and bullying.
- Practice positive emotional reactions and seek out mentoring opportunities when receiving constructive criticism.
- Become a great listener – We naturally bond with people who earnestly listen and want to spend time with them more.
- Ask the right questions – The best way to let people know that we hear them is to make sure that we first understand what they are saying and ask the right questions. This sincere attempt makes them feel valued, and they tend to open up more.
- Be consistent and manage emotions – We need to be able to manage emotions to fully listen and engage others who are important in our lives. They will appreciate honesty.
- Respect yourself and respect others, especially those who are older. Respect begets respect!
Relationship Skills for Kids Worksheets
This is a fantastic bundle that includes everything you need to know about Relationship Skills for Kids across 21 in-depth pages. These are ready-to-use worksheets that are perfect for teaching Relationship Skills for Kids, which includes communicating clearly, listening actively, cooperating, resisting inappropriate social pressure, negotiating conflict constructively, and seeking and offering help when needed.
Complete List Of Included Worksheets
- Relationship Skills for Kids Facts
- I Am…
- Making New Friends!
- Good Listener
- Lesson in Empathy
- 3-2-1 Bridge
- Dealing with Disagreements
- Growing Mindset
- Best of Everyone
- Help Is on the Way
- Gratitude Poem
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