Product Spotlight (part 2)- Green Box Kids Book 2: Compromise

Welcome to part 2 of our spotlight on Green Box Kids Book 2: Compromise! We’re going to go over how to most effectively use the book with your learners, and why you should go over to Teachers Pay Teachers and download it.

      Compromise is one of the most important skills for kids to learn; it's also one of the most difficult to teach. It can be tough for kids to put themselves in other people's shoes, especially when compromise means not getting to do a preferred activity. Kids can struggle to understand why compromise is important. Take the following example question from the book:

This is a pretty common situation, and it can be difficult to explain to your kids that neither one of them is more entitled to the red token than the other. No matter who gets to use the token, one or more kids is not getting something they wanted without fully understanding why. We know how frustrating it can be as an educator or instructor to know exactly what skill you need to get across to your learner, but not how to help them understand it.

We found solutions to these dilemmas through years of teaching social skills like compromise to kids with autism spectrum disorder and other developmental and behavioral disorders. The questions and activities in this book are the result of extensive experience and research. The material is easy to read, with large fonts and contrasting font and background colors. It’s also easy to follow, with plain, conversational language. This book is meant to make teaching compromise easier and broaden your learner's understanding of why compromise is crucial, all while teaching your learners the importance of taking other people's feelings into consideration when making decisions. When using this book, your learners will be engaged throughout and will have to think and work together to complete the activities. Each activity and comic includes examples and scenarios that are applicable to your learners’ lives and promote generalization across environments. By using kids in our comics, we relate the situations the Green Box Kids face to your learners’ real lives. Whether you’re a BCBA, a Registered Behavior Technician, a special education teacher, or a parent, this book is easy to use, and the program and data sheets in the back are a great place to start individualizing goals for your learners.

We’ve all had to try to learn something or complete a task that we couldn’t get into; trying to engage in material when you just don’t find interesting or applicable to your life can feel like an impossible task. Green Box Kids believes that social skills training doesn’t have to feel like a chore. Green Box Kids Books make learning fun and emphasize why learning social skills is important to your learners instead of just what social skills are. We engage kids on the topics that matter to them because we think you shouldn’t have to compromise on fun or learning.