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Friends and confidence

Feeling different, struggling to join in, being left out or picked on. Confidence grows when children know their strengths and have a few simple social skills to lean on.

An adult crouches beside a child, encouraging them towards other children playing football in the park

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3 ten-minute ideas to build confidence

  1. Draw a strengths sun. Write something your child is good at on each ray. Stick it up and add a new ray each week.
  2. Practise a joining-in line. Role-play “Can I play too?” with a toy or sibling until it feels easy.
  3. Praise the effort. Try “You kept going with that” instead of “Well done”. It builds belief that trying works.

All three ideas are on Mooki cards, with simple steps on the front and a child-friendly activity on the back.

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