Library · Showing Kindness
one small, useful thing at a time.
A classmate drops a box of crayons and goes red. Your child wants to help and does not know how, so they stare, or walk away, or do the wrong thing. Vivi turns that into a narrated, animated story your child stars in: ask first, pick up one crayon, and let the answer be the answer.
Who it helps
For children who care but freeze, who help in ways the other child does not want, or who are learning that kindness has steps. Parents of autistic children often use a social story like this because it makes the social part concrete: what to say, and what to do with your hands.
Kindness here never means giving away a favorite thing, accepting a hug, or fixing someone's feelings on the spot.
Something goes wrong
A classmate drops the crayons beside the table, and everyone looks.
Wanting to help, not sure how
The feeling of wanting to do something, and the moment of not knowing what.
Ask, then do one small thing
"Do you want help?" If yes, pick up a crayon. If no, that is fine too.
The useful result
The crayons are back in the box, the classmate is a little less upset, and your child knows what they did.
Yours, not ours. These are the moments a story like this usually walks through. You choose what goes into your child's, and read every page before it is animated.
Questions parents ask
At calm times, a few times a week, and before days with new groups: a birthday party, a first week of school. It also fits after a moment where helping went wrong, once everyone has settled.
Yes. The situation can be a spilled drink, a lost toy or a crying sibling, and the classmate can say no to help. You read every page before it is animated and ask for changes in plain words.
Make it small and specific: ask first, offer one thing, respect the answer. Big words like "be nice" do not tell a child what to do with their hands. A social story with your child as the main character shows one kind act from start to finish, so they have a script to try.
Your first story is free in your first 30 days. After that you buy credits: 3 for $9, 10 for $26 or 30 for $66. A story is 1 credit, and a Fully Animated story is 10 more. Your first routine, Choose-Along and plan are free, then 1 credit each. Bought credits never expire.
Your first story is free. Set up your child, start from Showing Kindness, and watch it together before bed.
Vivi Kids is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Carol Gray or Team Social Stories.
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