Title: Five Tips for Expressing Opinions Politely ⋆ Social Skills Company
Headings: Five Tips for Expressing Opinions Politely
Five Tips for Expressing Opinions Politely
Getting Your Point Across
It’s Tricky
Practice Good Social Skills
Five Tips for Expressing Opinions Politely

Content: Children learn what works and what doesn’t work by having discussions. If a person seems to bristle, makes a face, looks away, gets angry, laughs, smiles or responds in any one of a thousand different ways, the young speaker learns. Over a childhood of conversations, the child becomes adept at reading cues and interacting with others appropriately. Face-to-face conversations teach children how to create bonds with one another, respect other people’s boundaries, delve deeper into issues, feel comfortable looking into people’s eyes, read the other person’s cues and use language to deftly express their thoughts. Getting Your Point Across
Sharing one’s opinion appropriately can be one of the more difficult topics to teach elementary and middle school aged children who have been weaned on texting. Opinions can evoke a lot of emotion and emotion isn’t captured very well in a text. It’s Tricky
Why should sharing one’s opinion be tricky? After all, aren’t we all entitled to express our own opinions? Yes, it is a free country…but are you entitled to hurt or offend others? To fully grasp the implications of expressing one’s opinion it is necessary to first define the word opinion and understand the difference between an opinion and a fact.