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When your child won’t ask for help at school
Some children sit with a stuck zipper, an unfinished puzzle or a question rather than raise a hand. When a child won’t ask for help at school, it is often shyness or worry about getting it wrong, not stubbornness. What helps is knowing that needing help is normal and having simple words ready, like “Can you help me, please?” That is why parents look for an asking for help social story or books about asking for help: practice at home makes the words easier to find in class.
Questions parents ask
- Is this like an asking for help social story?
- Yes, it works like an asking for help social story: one moment of being stuck and one way to ask. The difference is that your child is the main character, the story uses their school’s name if you add it, and it comes narrated, so you can listen together.
- What does my child get stuck on in the story?
- Something ordinary, like a zipper, a puzzle, a question or needing the bathroom. Your child notices they need help, finds the words and learns that the teacher is glad to be asked. Nobody laughs, and needing help is never treated as being slow.
- How can we practice after listening?
- Pick one way to ask from the story, like raising a hand or saying “Can you help me, please?”, and try it at home in a game. Every try counts, even a quiet one. The questions on this page help you talk about what your child could say at school.