Social Skills for Teens: How to Build Self-Esteem, Confidence, and Become Your Best Self

by Discover Press

Paperback

Published May 29, 2021

Reviews

[Belle · Rating 1 out of 5]

(Apoligies for speeling mistakes typing this on my phone )I read a few review for this book from teachers or parents, they had given it quite high ratings. I'm 17 years old, I will be 18 soon and I have gone through the toughest part of senior year. And I can say for certainty as I have had anxiety for my entire life, this book won't help. Generally Gen z will think this book is a complete joke because it is. I read the guide to be a successful teen or what ever that book written by the son of the man who wrote the guide to be successful person and I can say that one is slightly better. But this book here comes off as only patronizing. The introduction is God awful you can't relate to teen by saying phrases we have been mocked with for the last ten years. "But, as far as your concerned, you have a desperate need to be liked and loved." Sure this is true but this is fundamentally true of every person, the difference is teens have hormonal regulation differences compared to adults, and our internal clock differs so the idea that we have to conform to adult time and emotion regulation is laughable and then when we can't with out becoming irrational we are mocked with this bs. This book might have good intentions, but it is a product of capitalism so I doubt it but even so the way this book approaches teaching life lesson to kids is a product of the system it is trying to help kids through. It just assumes these mocking phrases are really what kids feel. It attempts to validate feelings that no teen actually has. And the book has some good strategies for mental health, it could help any age but the way youth is approached is so bad I can't imagine a teen reading it. Don't buy this for your kid, I know you want to help but put them on the internet, put them in public school in a small town. Look at school culture. Teach them morals. Adults you might have been concerned with your popularity in high school but we are depressed, we are traumatized l, we are worried about the planet you screwed up, but most of us have become so over whelmed that we couldn't care less. This book is bad. And it angers me.

[Deana Evers · Rating 4 out of 5]

A timely instruction guide for teens

This was a well written and insightful guide for teens today. It covers many topics all teens need to think about such making friends, handling peer pressure, bullying, etc. My favorite was the chapter on anxiety and the list of toxic words we tell ourselves and how to reexamine those and how we frame things in our minds to fail before we even try. I do have a few suggestions though on making this book more usable. First put in actual short tests for personality types, depression scale, anxiety scale, etc. Don't make kids stop reading and go to the internet to find a complex test. Also it needs more actual exercises to complete. There weren't many. I also didn't think most of the real life example stories were that great. Overall a very insightful book but teens need more practical applications because most won't just sit down and read "how to"

[Michael Beyer · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book reads like a discussion with some of the very best high school and middle school guidance counselors I have known. And in 31 years as a teacher I have known many. The book gives good practical advice on about every issue a counselor may have with students. There is a particularly fine section on mindful meditation that discusses strategies that I have seen work miracles with young teens. Most of the book has a good, logical progression of ideas. It loses a little of that when it enters into the subject of love and sex. I jumps from discussing learning each other's likes and feelings directly into sex and possible pregnancy, and goes on to discuss birth control before mentioning the importance of talking the idea through with your potential partner before attempting anything in private. A more thoughtful ordering of ideas would be helpful there. But it is not mistake enough to lower the overall high quality of the content of this book. I highly recommend it.

[Paul · Rating 4 out of 5]

Growing up can be the most difficult years of a person's life, even under the best of circumstances. This book aims to make the process a little easier.

Your best friend goes to the movies without asking if you want to go, too. At school, a group of your friends are looking at you, while whispering to themselves. Instead of assuming that it is because you are fat, ugly and a total waste of oxygen, Ask Them. The explanation may not involve you at all.

This book includes ways to boost your self-confidence, and exercises that will reduce, or eliminate, anxiety. It is possible to build real relationships by being your best self; it's better than having lots of "friends" online.

Here is a really good book on navigating the teen years. If this book can nudge the average teen into thinking differently, or actually start changing their life, by only a few percent, it will have done its job. This is well worth checking out.

[Maya Hunjan · Rating 4 out of 5]

I would give my book a 4 out of 5 stars because the book was a very interesting and talked about social skills, gave information on examples, and ways to help. I think this was also a good book because it gave other people's perspectives, for example when talking about money and sports it gave “ Matt decided to go out with some of the guys. One of them drove Matt and the other two guys on a one- hour trip “ . I really liked the fact that this book gave other people perspectives because it made the book much easier to understand. I also really liked this book because it gave a list of possible things to do when you encounter a bully. “ Avoid the people who do the bullying . If it happens on the playground, look around for those girls or guys who are elsewhere. Just walk up to them and join their group . If you dont know them well , introduce yourself. “ Some girls or guys seem to get some perverse pleasure in saying nasty things on your social media “.

[Isabella · Rating 3 out of 5]

Social Skills for Teens is a good book and explains the relatable facts of being a teenager and how to overcome negative emotions, or just the feeling of wanting to fit in. The book uses advice that is used constantly, it's not anything new, but it actually is good advice, though many may just think it is annoying. Page 72, "Confidence means trust, and self-confidence means trust in yourself." Are one of the many quotes that has actually spoke to me in a way because usually there is always doubt in my mind. The book has many topics but usually is strays away from its main purpose, but it still gives advice to struggling teens.

[Joseph D'Aquisto · Rating 5 out of 5]

I wish I had this book when I was a teen!
Lots of great advice for teens, and adults as well. I enjoyed the use of yellow highlighted real world scenarios which are highly helpful. This is the perfect self-help book for high school and university students.

One of the best advice stated in the book says to not add your parents on social media, not just for your own good, but for theirs as well which helps them find other interests outside of worrying about you.

[Nora Delzelle · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very helpful!

I am not a teen (full disclosure), but I found that a lot of the advice given in this book was good advice. Even adults can get benefits from reading this.

[Brenda Bauer · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's pretty good for the most part. Talks about how to build your confidence and other things.