TY - BOOK AU - Shea,Donna AU - Briggs,Nadine TI - How to make & keep friends: helping your child achieve social success SN - 1499358806 PY - 2014/// CY - [United States PB - The Authors] KW - Parenting KW - Handbooks, manuals, etc KW - Popular works KW - Child rearing N1 - Title and statement of responsibility from front cover N2 - How to Make and Keep Friends: Helping Your Child Achieve Social Success is a how-to manual for parents of children with social challenges. The easy-to-read format clearly outlines common barriers that hinder friendships, provides actionable tips for overcoming those barriers, and includes suggested language for parents to use to provide support to their kids during unstructured social interactions. Parents play a key role in the formation of friendships. How to Make and Keep Friends: Helping Your Child Achieve Social Success shows parents how to guide their children toward true and meaningful friendship connections. Donna and Nadine, both social coaches with extensive experience, have used these coaching tips successfully for many years. In this companion to their book for children, How To Make and Keep Friends: Tips For Kids To Overcome 50 Common Social Challenges, they share their easy-to-implement techniques for coaching kids toward attaining, sustaining, and generalizing improved social skills, including real-life stories of how these same tips have been effective with children attending their social skills programs ER -