- Social-Emotional Skills include the knowledge, attitudes, and skills necessary for youth to recognize and control their emotions and behaviors; establish and maintain positive relationships; make responsible decisions and solve challenging situations; and set and achieve positive goals. Source.
- Some examples of social-emotional skills are like Adaptability, Empathy, Patience, Forgiveness, Gratitude, Honesty and so on. More examples.
- Many researches indicate that social and emotional skills children gain, or don’t gain, before they enter kindergarten have a profound effect on their lifelong journey.
- The problem is that more and more children are entering school without these critical skills.
- One study found that of over 9,000 children entering kindergarten in the Baltimore Public Schools more than half didn’t meet benchmarks for social-behavior readiness. These include social and emotional skills which are used everyday. Like following directions, complying with rules, managing emotions, solving problems, organize and complete tasks, and get along with others.
- Another study found that for every one-point increase in a child’s social competence score, he or she was 46 percent more likely to have a full-time job in early adulthood.
- Primary school teachers report that it is hard to teach children who are not interested in learning, lack confidence in their own abilities, and have trouble cooperating and controlling themselves.
- Children learn and practice these important skills when they have to solve problems that arise in play with others. Thus parents and preschool teachers both have shared responsibility to help child to develop these skills.