Ebook Intentional Catholic Parenting: Social Development Birth through Adul

As parents, we cannot assume that children will automatically develop social competencies. Supporting and challenging children's social development requires intentional efforts every day. We can model positive social interactions and demonstrate to our children that we value social competencies. This involves planning activities and providing materials in our homes that focus on social development. By doing so, children will acquire social skills that serve them well in their adult lives, helping them reach their full potential as socially competent individuals.
 
This eBook is designed to help parents understand and support their children's social development through planned activities and experiences. It provides guidance on how to help children initiate and maintain positive relationships, learn to take turns, ignore distractions, negotiate, build consensus, respond to others appropriately, and engage in positive leisure and play experiences with others.
 
Woven throughout the eBook are connections to Christ's own social development, as well as references to scripture, the sacraments, and Catholic tradition. Parents will find over 200 ways to intentionally support these concepts, nurturing their children's social development through to adulthood.