Social Skills

An acquaintance asks you if they can share a snack you brought to school.

• You tell them no.

• You tell them no, and explain that you have practice after school, so you need all of it.

• You offer them a small portion of your snack.

You notice your friend has two different shoes on.

• You laugh at them.

• You laugh and let them, then let them know their shoes don't match.

• You nicely let them know that their shoes don't match.

Your classmates try to convince you to go out for a sport.

• You nicely say no.

• I tell them I don't like the coach, so no way!

• You agree to give it a try.

You see a fight in the hallway, what do you do?

• Jump in to stop it.

• Find an adult to handle it.

• Cheer it on.

You are shopping with a friend and they try to convince you to steal something.

• You go along with it so that your friend doesn't get mad.

• You tell your friend that stealing is wrong and that you don't want to be a part of it.

• You let their parents know that they asked you to steal.

A fellow student asks if they can cheat off of your paper.

• You let them once, but tell them it's the only time.

• You tell them no and move away from them.

• You don't say anything, but let the teacher know that it happened.

You see a booger in a person's nose.

• You quietly tell the person that they have a booger in their nose.

• You wipe your nose, hoping that they get your hint.

• You tell all of your friends to check out the booger.

Your friends want to go Trick or Treating for Halloween.

• You decline and say you are too old.

• You agree to join them.

• You convince them to have a get-together at your house instead.

A friend asks you to not to hang out with a certain person.

• You agree, because you don't want to mess up your friendship.

• You tell your friend that they have no right picking your friends and you can hang out with whomever you want.

• You tell your friend that they should give this person a chance.

An adult tells you, "if you don't have anything good to say, don't say anything at all".

• You agree and make an effort to be more positive.

• You agree, and don't say anything for the rest of the day.

• You act shocked and tell the adult that everyone says negative things and that it's impossible to be positive all of the time.