✔️ 36 everyday social skills, from saying hello to apologising — each with word-for-word scripts your child can actually use
✔️Three age levels on every skill: Seed (6–8), Sprout (8–10), Tree (10–12) — one book that grows with your child
✔️Full-colour illustrationson every skill, across 118 pages
✔️ Interactive quizzes with best-answer revealsturn reading into practice
✔️ Discussion prompts for parents— an easy way in, no lecture required
Bought one for each of my grown daughters to read with their kids age 5-10. Live that there are different levels for young and older kids. Simple to read, colorful illustrations, lots that can be discussed in a short period of time. We are into social emotional management as a family (I used to teach it to this age), and now cousins can learn together!
Jib
This book captured social and emotional skills youth need to navigate life to become well-rounded and gain abilities to be culturally sound. Creating ways to communicate effectively and identify different emotions that come with difficulties with social media and worldly issues youth face in today’s society. Great read. Hopefully in the future I can buy books in bulk to help the youth in our facility.
Tara
I loved how you put different chapters with subheadings. The age group responses with an example of a scenario was very helpful. Illustrations are always a good visual for kids, great job. Thank you for sharing your book with me.
Dana Haeffner
This is a great book focused on soft skills related to social emotional learning. Quick read with easy to understand advice. Could be used by parents to talk to kids, for teachers to use to talk about bullying and SEL, and day enough for a child to read on their own
Christy
Most kids aren't shy — they're stuck.
They want to join the group at recess. They want to ask the teacher for help. They want to say sorry after an argument. The moment arrives, the words don't come, and they freeze.
From the outside it reads as attitude, or withdrawal, or "she's just quiet."
What Can I Say? gives them the sentence.
A six-year-old and an eleven-year-old need the same skill explained two different ways. So every skill in this book is written three times.
🌱 Seed (6–8) — short, simple, concrete
🌿 Sprout (8–10) — more nuance, more situations
🌳 Tree (10–12) — social complexity, tone, reading the room
Buy it once at six. Still useful at eleven. If you have more than one child, it covers the whole family.
✔️ 1 — Everyday InteractionsSay hello · Join a group · Introduce yourself
✔️ 2 — Conversation SkillsKeep conversations going · Listen better · Give compliments
✔️ 3 — Getting AlongDisagree respectfully · Handle conflict · Solve problems
✔️ 4 — Hard FeelingsApologise · Ask for help · Manage anger
✔️ 5 — FriendshipMake friends · Handle being left out · Stand up for others
✔️ 6 — Family & HomeTalk to parents · Handle sibling conflict · Show someone they matter
This is for you if your child is 6–12 and freezes in social moments, gets left out, struggles to apologize, or clams up around new people.
This isn't a therapy workbook, a diagnostic tool, or a school curriculum. It's a plain-language guide for everyday moments.
Reader reviews
4.95
Great book
Bought one for each of my grown daughters to read with their kids age 5-10. Live that there are different levels for young and older kids. Simple to read, colorful illustrations, lots that can be discussed in a short period of time. We are into social emotional management as a family (I used to teach it to this age), and now cousins can learn together!
It is such a fantastic find for tweens and middle schoolers! Instead of just giving vague advice like 'be polite,' it actually gives kids exact scripts and phrases for awkward or tricky social situations. Everything from making friends and setting boundaries to shutting down gossip and giving real apologies. It’s warm, funny, graphic-heavy, and treats kids with total respect. Honestly, I think every middle-grade kid could benefit from having this on their shelf.
As an elementary school counselor, I found What Can I Say? to be an incredibly helpful and much-needed resource for my profession. It provides practical, age-appropriate language that empowers children to communicate with confidence, kindness, and empathy in everyday situations. The examples are engaging, relatable, and easy for students to understand and apply. This is an excellent resource for counselors, teachers, and parents who want to help children strengthen their communication and social-emotional skills. I'm so glad I added this book to my professional library.
I loved how you put different chapters with subheadings. The age group responses with an example of a scenario was very helpful. Illustrations are always a good visual for kids, great job. Thank you for sharing your book with me.
"What Can I Say" is a positive reference tool. As a teacher of students with special needs, I constantly reinforce social-emotional skills. This text presents real-world scenarios that I can implement during intervention.
This book captured social and emotional skills youth need to navigate life to become well-rounded and gain abilities to be culturally sound. Creating ways to communicate effectively and identify different emotions that come with difficulties with social media and worldly issues youth face in today’s society. Great read. Hopefully in the future I can buy books in bulk to help the youth in our facility.
This is a great book focused on soft skills related to social emotional learning. Quick read with easy to understand advice. Could be used by parents to talk to kids, for teachers to use to talk about bullying and SEL, and day enough for a child to read on their own
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It's a physical, full-color book delivered straight to your door - no screens, no apps, just a real book your child can hold, flip through, and come back to again and again.
Ages 6 to 12. Every skill is written three times over — once for 6–8, once for 8–10, once for 10–12 — so the same page works for a first-grader and a sixth-grader. If you have kids at different ages, one copy covers all of them.
Both, and you can pick. Read a skill aloud together, or hand it over and let them work through the quizzes on their own. Nothing needs to be filled in, so it survives more than one child.
About five minutes. Two pages per skill, one skill at a time. It's built for a bedtime or a car ride, not a study session.
The 10–12 level is written for older kids — tone, reading the room, handling being left out. Most kids knowhowto behave. This is about having the actual sentence ready when the moment comes.
The book does the work. The scripts are written out word for word and the discussion prompts give you the question to ask, so there's nothing to prepare and no lecture required.
It's one of the easiest gifts to get right. It looks great, lasts for years, and suits a wide range of ages - grandparents, birthdays, and holidays are some of the most popular reasons people pick it up.
118 pages in a large 8.5" × 11" full-colour format.
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