22/03/2022
Dear Parent,
Little Blossoms encourage children and adults to team up and grow together which helps to strengthen these soft skills and social skills for kids.
What are Soft Skills?
Soft skills are often referred to as “people skills” or “non-cognitive skills” – essentially, the skills that are difficult to directly measure and the ones you can’t necessarily teach out of a book.
Below are three prime examples that your child can get into the habit of doing that will help develop soft skills. While these skills may take a while to learn, the effects are long-term and helpful in many life skills and experiences. Let’s dive in!
1. Encourage Your Children:
People require attention but more importantly, they crave encouragement. We as adults need to congratulate them on the progress they've made, as well as encourage them to keep going.
2. Demonstrate Social Skills:
If you teach your child proper people skills when they're young, the lessons will stick with them for a lifetime.
3. Acknowledge When They're On Time:
As parents, we often don't have trouble telling our kids when they're doing something wrong, but when it comes to pointing out the things they are doing right, like being on time, we tend to lag.
Soft Skills In Action At Little Blossoms:
Little blossoms encourage families to get together to practice these soft skills. In our programs, we take "Snack Chats". During our " Snack Chats", we touch on soft skills and share stories and experiences with other learners. Topics include things like what happens when you make a mistake or what do you do if you have been griefed in Minecraft( like trolling, but in Minecraft).
Embedded in all our programs are lessons that help kids build confidence, resilience, social skills, and a positive relationship.
Unfortunately, many of the soft skills are not taught in schools, as the focus is on hard skills like math or science because these are well-defined and measurable. Soft skills, on the other hand, revolve around less measurable skills like manners, self-control, empathy, etc. But teaching soft skills at an early age or enrolling them in-home tuition has been found by researchers to be greatly beneficial to the development of children. It is just as important as hard skills for leading a productive adult life.
If you'd like your child to branch out and practice these soft skills for kids in real life please join us!
We hope to see you at Little Blossoms one day!
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Thank you
Best,
Kriti Gupta
Certified Soft Skills Coach