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Social Skills for the Child Who Doesn't Fit in

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My most important job in the world is to parent my two boys. My...

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  "Everybody hates me"   "The other kids are picking on me."   "I don't have any friends!"   These are words that would make any parent feel both sad and powerless as to how to help their child who just doesn't seem to fit in.  And it does seem that children who have A...
  1. No truer words
    Paul
    Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 08:10 AM

    This brings into sharp focus what a great number of children and their parents must deal with and the strategies given are inspired. I wish there were a way to bring this to people dealing with such heartache and pain amid a sea of misguided information. This is, short of curing ignorance, the needle in the haystack people are looking for.

     

    I've always felt the other 90% of the equation was parents teaching their children about the differences in a positive manner, social skills for the children who do fit in, tolerance and understanding. I know many do try to reinforce those skills when an opportunity arises. But also many make negative comments themselves about children with learning or behavioral differences passing the prejudices they were taught onto their children.

     

    I saw many times, we all have, children singled out, picked on, ignored, and in school little was done and often done the wrong way, so that the result was the child was even more disdained.

    I wonder are certain children born to be cruel or is it a learned experience from their elders? I'm confident it will not end, ever. So, this is the best advice I've seen for parents dealing with these problems. I could go on about this subject for a long time, instead I'll just say thank you for your work.

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    re: No truer words
    Merely Me
    Friday, July 10, 2009 at 09:32 PM

    Thank you for this!

     

    I think no matter what age you are...you will always remember childhood days where you may have been picked on or bullied.  I would like to think that things are better now.  I know that my son is accepted for the most part nowadays because there is more education and subsequently...more tolerance.  In a perfect world...no child would feel like they did not fit in but sadly this may never be the case. 

     

    Anyways...thank you for your insights...they are much appreciated.

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