Children, then, acquire social skills not so much from adults as from their interactions with one another. They are likely to discover through trial …

- Zick Rubin

Friends serve central functions for children that parents do not, and they play a critical role in shaping children's social skills and their sense o…

- Zick Rubin

Belonging to a group can provide the child with a variety of resources that an individual friendship often cannot--a sense of collective participatio…

- Zick Rubin

Whereas children can learn from their interactions with their parents how to get along in one sort of social hierarchy--that of the family--it is fro…

- Zick Rubin

Although adults have a role to play in teaching social skills to children, it is often best that they play it unobtrusively. In particular, adults mu…

- Zick Rubin