"Children have returned to school. Not only is the initial "honeymoon" period over, but so are the hopes that whatever previous social behavioral difficulties they had last spring would have vanished by taking a summer away from the classroom. Children are again feeling anxious, sad, lonely, and unconnected. Time to help them feel better."
"In a past blog post, I suggested that children's failed attempts to connect with others to make friends have been caused by a lack of skill in using nonverbal social language. By nonverbal language, I mean the ability to read and express emotions in facial expressions, gestures, postures, personal space, touch, and voices."
Children returning to school are experiencing anxiety, sadness, loneliness, and social disconnection. Many children fail to make friends because they lack skills in nonverbal social language. Nonverbal social language includes facial expressions, gestures, postures, personal space, touch, and vocal cues. Vocalics—pitch, tone, volume, and rate—convey emotions both with and without words and develop alongside early verbal vocabulary. Intimate parent‑infant bonding in the first year depends heavily on nonverbal social signals. Parents and teachers can model and teach vocalic and other nonverbal skills to improve children’s social success.
Read at Psychology Today
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