When your child misinterprets a joke, interrupts other kids, or doesn't understand how to take turns, they miss out on friendships. Help your child with this strategy.
Making eye contact. Not interrupting. Taking turns. If your child with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder needs help with these and other social skills, you may want to give “role-playing” a try. By testing out various personas, he can see how simple changes in what he says and does can help him get along better with friends and family members.
Role-playing works with almost any child who is old enough to talk. It’s especially good for teaching children how to deal with teasing — a problem familiar to many kids withConsider the case of Joe B., a nine-year-old I recently treated. Joe’s parents sought my help because he keptto playful verbal banter that came his way during recess. On one such occasion, after Joe did something silly, a playmate laughed at him and called him a “turkey head.
Talking things over made Joe feel better, and I decided that role-playing might help Joe avoid future incidents. Here are the basic steps I used with Joe that you might try with your own child:Talk things over until you understand the exact nature of the problem facing your child. Joe’s problem, of course, was that he felt angry and sad when kids called him names — and couldn’t stop himself from lashing out physically.. Let your child know that it’s normal to be upset by teasing.
Role-playing didn’t help Joe right away. But one day, a few weeks after we began our sessions, Joe was beaming when he came into my office. Once again, a playmate hadhim, but this time Joe hadn’t struck back. “I told him I didn’t care what he thought,” Joe explained. Over time, as we continued our sessions, Joe got even better at controlling his behavior on the playground. Other children accepted him as one of the gang, and that made him feel good about himself.Taking theater in school, or taking a class given by a community theater, can prove useful for awkward kids. Kids who participate in theater get practice waiting their turn . And they see other kids interacting with one another, in real life as well as in the world of make-believe.
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