How do you raise your child to be social?

Answer 1

If you set a good example of talking to others and being involved the child will likely do the same. You can put the child into fun, noncompetitive activities. Invite other children and adults over to your house. If you want your child to really be a hit give them an item that few children have like a wooden train set that is really cool. Or do a fun activity like bake cookies and allow other children to join in. Be creative

Answer 2

Put them in situations where they can be social in an environment that they feel comfortable in. When they are really young start with play dates of just 1 to 3 friends on his home turf. He'll feel more comfortable expressing himself. When he gets a little older, get an activity. Scouts are good for this, you'll get small structured group settings with kids who are taught to respect and be kind to each other. Just don't push him. Some kids are just never going to be the social butterfly no matter what, so just monitor that his interactions with other children are positive ones as much as possible.

Answer 3

From a young age?

Let them go play with their friends, and have their friends come over to play and entertain themselves however they want. As a parent, you don't really have to do much(except maybe provide the activities) except if it gets out of hand.

Just go places. They might not be talking to strangers, but it helps them be more comfortable and used to new surroundings. This comes really useful, because you wouldn't want your kid to look like he's been living under a rock never having seen what a bowling alley looks like before.

Encourage them to participate in school activities, trips, and sports(school or non-school) and also extracurricular activities and programs where they can meet people who share their common interests. It also opens them up to new experiences, confidence, and self-esteem.

Do activities together with other families. Go on a trip together or let her tag along with her friend and her family on a trip.

Give them space to explore and meet new people without you being there or keeping them isolated all the time.

Encourage them to do community activities but never force them to do anything they don't want or they're not going to have much fun.

Bring them along to events and introduce them to people. But don't force your kid to say hello and be nice to everyone if she's just shy or intuitively doesn't like that person(that's huge and can be a life saver).

And lastly...my all time favorite:

Buy them a cell phone with unlimited call and text, and let them have their MySpace and Facebook...

If you can let your kid do all or most of those things, they'll naturally be more social later in life. As soon as they're a teenager, they'll be on their own... They'll make friends easily, hang out, do activities together, go to parties, etc... Give them more space from here on, let them have their independence.

Answer 4

Take them to a park...just like a dog. But you can't really force someone to be social, they have to get comfortable with being around people by him/herself.

Answer 5

thats like saying how do you raise a childed smart...

you could try the azn way and pressure them into talking to other ppl

Answer 6

Unfortunately, some of it is just innate, so they are either prone to be social or they aren't. Provide opportunity, but don't push them.