What Can I Say: Guide to Social Skills, Big Feelings, and Hard Conversations For Kids
What Can I Say: Guide to Social Skills, Big Feelings, and Hard Conversations For Kids
📖 Over 50 real-life, comic-style scenarios kids actually recognize
🗣️ Turns 'I don't know what to say' into clear, kind scripts for hard moments
⚡ 2 pages a day, real school situations, zero lecturing
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What Can I Say: Guide to Social Skills, Big Feelings, and Hard Conversations For Kids
"My daughter got off the bus in tears because she'd been left out at lunch, and for the first time I actually knew what to say back to her. This book gave me the words nobody gave me growing up."
Product Details
Product Details
What Can I Say? is Catherine Newman's kid's guide to over 50 real-life social scenarios, from greeting someone and making small talk to shutting down gossip and stepping back from a hurtful friendship. Each scenario is shown as a comic-style 'wrong' response next to the 'right' one, so kids see exactly what to say and why it works. Written by the best-selling author of How to Be a Person and illustrated by Debbie Fong, it's built to read a page or two at a time, at bedtime or on the fly.
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Shipping & Delivery
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Return & Refund Policy
Return & Refund Policy
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THE SCRIPT GUIDE NOBODY GAVE US
The exact words that turn a hard moment into a lesson your kid keeps
Every chapter is a moment you already recognize. Getting left out at lunch. Not knowing how to apologize. A friendship that's turned into more hurt than fun.
No vague advice to "use your words." Just the wrong response next to the right one, so your kid knows exactly what to say before they need it.
Built for parents who want the exact words, not another lecture
What Can I Say? hands your kid the script first. Instead of paragraphs on empathy and "communicating better," they get the exact line to use, shown right next to the version that makes things worse.
Each chapter breaks down one real scenario: how to introduce yourself without freezing up, how to shut down gossip, how to apologize and actually mean it, how to step back from a friendship that isn't working. Comic-style "wrong vs. right" panels make the difference impossible to miss.
Covering over 50 scenarios in short, straight-to-the-point chapters, every page gives your kid something to use in their very next conversation.
QUICK ANSWERS ABOUT WHAT'S INSIDE
What's inside What Can I Say?
What's inside What Can I Say?
Over 50 real scenarios covering greetings, small talk, friendship, apologies, gossip, gratitude, and hard feelings. Every scenario is shown as a "wrong" response next to the "right" one, so kids always know the better thing to say.
Who is this for?
Who is this for?
Kids and tweens navigating school, friendships, and family life, and any parent who wants ready-made scripts instead of winging it in the moment.
Is this dense or practical?
Is this dense or practical?
Practical and visual. Every scenario is a short comic-style breakdown, a page or two a day is genuinely all it takes to work through it.
Does it cover both school and home?
Does it cover both school and home?
Yes. It's split across everyday scenarios like greetings and small talk, tougher social situations like gossip and friendship breakups, and family moments like being wrong and taking accountability.