‘Moon Made New Friends’ is from our series of assertiveness stories for children. Moon is a preschooler who moves into a new neighborhood with her parents. And then we get to see how Moon uses assertiveness to make new friends and interact with them. Further, after listening to this story your child will understand how they can make new friends and maintain their friendships by using assertiveness.

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About Assertiveness

Assertiveness is a communication skill and much needed to succeed and be happy in life. Like any skill it gets better with practice. Assertiveness helps children by:

• keeping away social anxiety
• making them self-aware
• helping them to expect positive responses.

Besides, healthy self-esteem is also a benefit of being assertive. We validate our perspective by expressing them to others and by honoring our own needs. This can also make us feel good about ourselves. Hence, we can control our own lives rather than let someone else control it.

Further, building and maintaining relationships also becomes an easy task for assertive people. They respect each other, openly express their needs and tend to be elaborate & empathetic.

Help your child understand boundaries. This will help them in a big way when it comes to safeguarding their own physical, emotional, intellectual and sexual boundaries. Help them say ‘no’ boldly and firmly when required.

To read more about assertiveness in children, have a look at our post here.

Thank you for listening. Hope you enjoyed this one. Do share your feedback with us so we can come up with more interesting stories for your little ones.