📖 120+ Full-Color Pages • 36 Social Skills • Ages 6–12
What Can I Say? – The Social Skills Book Every Kid Needs
💬 Give kids the words to start conversations, join groups, and express themselves with confidence.
🤝 Build stronger friendship skills with practical examples for making friends, handling disagreements, and feeling included.
❤️ Navigate everyday moments with ready-to-use words for apologizing, asking for help, showing kindness, and handling big feelings.
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Jib R.
Bought one for each of my grown daughters to read with their kids age 5-10. Love 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!
The Core Problem
Sometimes Kids Know How They Feel — They Just Don’t Know What to Say
Joining a group. Asking for help. Apologizing. Speaking up when something feels wrong.
For many kids, these everyday moments become difficult simply because they can’t find the right words.
What Can I Say? gives children practical language they can understand, remember, and use when those moments happen.
The goal isn’t to script every conversation. It’s to help kids feel prepared enough to speak for themselves.
Practical, Not Just Educational
Don’t Just Tell Them to “Be More Confident” — Show Them What to Say.
Confidence is difficult to build when a child doesn’t know what to do in the moment.
That’s why the book uses real situations, example phrases, illustrated scenarios, and practice prompts instead of vague advice.
Kids can see what a situation looks like, learn words they could use, and practice before they need them in real life.
36 practical social skills. Real situations. Words kids can actually use.
Real Parents. REAL MOMENTS.
See how families are using What Can I Say? to help kids communicate with confidence, build friendships, and navigate everyday social situations.
Julie,
Verified Buyer
I love how much this covers — conversation skills, getting along, hard feelings, and real situations kids actually face. It gives them practical examples of what they can say.
Dawn,
Verified Buyer
What I really like is how the book breaks communication down into simple, everyday situations. It gives kids useful words they can actually understand and use.
Austin,
Verified Buyer
This is such a practical resource for parents and kids. You can go through the situations together, talk about them, and help your child feel more prepared for real conversations.
Sid,
Verified Buyer
I love that this isn’t just advice telling kids to be more confident. It actually shows them what they can say, with examples they can practice and come back to.
What Parents Are Saying
See how families are using What Can I Say? to help kids find the right words, build social confidence, and handle everyday conversations with greater ease.
Knowledge is power!
The 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 wordly issues youth face in today's society. Great read. Hopefully in the future I can books in bulk to help the youth in our facility.
What Can I Say...Good Reference Tool
"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.
Helping Kids in Certain Situations
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 jobs. Thank you for sharing your book with me.
A Great Read
As an elementary school counselor, I found What Can I Say? to be an incredibly helpful and much-needed resource fr 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.
Teaching Kids What to Say When Words Fail Them
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 settings 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.
Book with Valuable Information
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.
Independence & Confidence
Give Them Tools They Can Use Even When You’re Not There.
Parents can guide, encourage, and prepare their children — but eventually they have to navigate friendships, classrooms, disagreements, and uncomfortable conversations on their own.
What Can I Say? helps children build a library of words and responses they can draw from when they need them.
So instead of freezing, withdrawing, or waiting for an adult to step in, they can begin learning how to handle everyday situations themselves.
Small conversations can build lifelong confidence.
Growing With Your Child
Social Skills Change as Kids Grow. The Book Grows With Them.
What a 6-year-old needs help saying can be very different from what a 12-year-old faces.
That’s why the book approaches skills through three age levels, moving from simple words and short responses toward more thoughtful conversations and complex social situations.
From making a new friend to handling conflict and difficult feelings, children can explore examples suited to where they are now.
Designed for ages 6–12 — with skills they’ll keep using long after they finish the book.
Built For Real Life
A Book They Can Come Back to Whenever They Need the Words.
This isn’t a book children need to read once and put away.
A difficult friendship. A disagreement. A new school. An awkward conversation. A moment when they simply don’t know what to say.
What Can I Say? can become a resource families return to as new situations arise.
Because sometimes the right words can change the whole moment.
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When Kids Don’t Know What to Say
Every child faces moments when they want to join in, speak up, make a friend, apologize, or ask for help — but simply don’t know what to say.
What Can I Say? gives kids practical words and examples they can actually use in everyday life.
Through 36 essential social skills, children learn how to start conversations, build friendships, handle disagreements, express difficult feelings, communicate with family, and navigate the situations they encounter every day.
Designed for ages 6–12, the examples grow with your child through three age levels — helping make each lesson easy to understand and practical to use.
💬 Find the words. 🤝 Build connections. ❤️ Grow confidence.
Social confidence isn't about having the perfect thing to say. It's about feeling prepared when the moment comes.