Social Skills to Be a Great Friend: A Kid's Guide to Creating Healthy Friendships

by JoAnn Crohn, Louie Chin (Illustrator)

Overview

Help your child be the best friend they can be with this guide to social skills—featuring more than 30 friendship-building activities for kids ages 8 to 12.

Making, keeping, and being a good friend takes practice. Luckily, there are special social skills that kids can use to build lasting, fun, and healthy friendships. This workbook teaches kids all about them through fun activities and advice created especially for ages 8 to 12.

A variety of skills and activities—Kids will discover 30+ exercises like quizzes and fill-in-the-blanks that will help them practice empathy, kindness, active listening, dealing with bullies, and more.

Kid-friendly content—Make it fun for children to learn about friendship with brightly colored illustrations, short chapters, and simple but engaging exercises.

Tackle tricky situations—Thoughtful, age-appropriate language shows kids how to navigate social issues like gossiping, peer pressure, bullying, and other difficult areas of friendship.

Inspire kids to develop happy, meaningful friendships with Social Skills to Be a Great Friend.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798886081756
Publisher:	Callisto Publishing
Publication date:	06/10/2025
Pages:	112
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

JOANN CROHN is a National Board Certified Teacher in middle childhood education. A former public school teacher, she now runs the company No Guilt Mom, where she helps parents raise self-sufficient kids. She’s also the host of the No Guilt Mom podcast and author of Drama Free Homework: A Parent’s Guide to Eliminating Homework Battles and Raising Focused Kids.

Editorial Reviews

"Friends play a huge part of our children’s happiness and success. The good news is that friendship is comprised of teachable skills. Social Skills to Be a Great Friend is filled with simple and practical ways parents can instill these crucial skills to help their kids gain social competence. This is the one book you’ll want to return to again and again! Highly recommended!" — Michele Borba, Ed.D., author of Thrivers: The Surprising Reasons Why Some Kids Struggle and Others Shine

"As parents, we all want our children to have healthy, happy, and thriving friendships. In Social Skills to Be a Great Friend, Crohn provides a playful framework that is interactive, entertaining, and educational for both parents and children about what it takes to be a great friend. I highly recommend this book as it effectively provides the guidance parents are looking for in helping their children develop strong and healthy relationships." — Dr. Lisa Bravo, relationship expert and author of The Bravo Effect

"In this approachable, easily digestible guide, experienced educator and parent JoAnn Crohn breaks down simple strategies kids can use to make friends and be a good friend to others. Through simple instructions, friendly graphics, and workbook-style scenario questions in each ‘What would you do?’ section, Crohn guides kids to learn how to deal with disagreements, how to win and lose gracefully, be friendly and open to making friends, and many more important social skills they need to thrive in relationships. Social Skills to Be a Great Friend is a resource that needs to be in every classroom AND in every family's library, because making friends is the most important work of childhood!" — Audrey "Sunshine" Monke, author of Happy Campers and host of the Sunshine Parenting podcast

"What the world needs right now are friendships! As a therapist, I often see today's loneliness taking over and starting at such a young age. This book is such a wonderful way for parents and children to unite with realistic scenarios and exercises to better understand building long-lasting social skills and relationships. Every parent, teacher, and counselor could benefit from having this book!" — Tessa Stuckey, LPC, author of For the Sake of Our Youth

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