As parents, you have the responsibility to stimulate your kids so that they can develop their interpersonal skills.

What kind of stimulations?

You can try some of these activities:

• Help them understand feelings and emotions inside them

You can help them name the feelings. For example, they are having a problem, let them learn whether it is sadness, disappointment or anger that they are feeling. This also applies when they feel good or happy. Let them name the feelings. This activity can, at the end, help them understand others’ feelings and emotions.

• Let them ask questions

Never tell your kids to shout their mouth whenever they ask too much. By asking questions, they are trying to understand the situation. Asking questions is also a way to absorb others’ perceptions over the situation.

• Encourage them to create a poem or a song

Let them express themselves creatively. Encourage them to create a poem or a song based on what happens in their daily life or their feelings. That way they learn to observe situations or emotions.

• Facilitate them to write a letter or a diary

If your kids can write, encourage them to write a letter to a friend or to their cousins or to a new friend. Let them express themselves to those people. Or, you can buy a notebook for them to write a journal. Tell them that they can write anything, even their deepest secrets and tell them that no one is allowed to read their diary, not even you—you’d better keep your promise.

• Let them use their imagination

Kids love to imagine. They can imagine that they are a presenter, a teacher, an animal, anything. Don’t stop them from doing this wonderful activity. Indeed, you can help them widen their imaginations.

Your kids’ ability to develop their interpersonal skill is very advantageous for their success in the future.