Give your child the social skills school never teaches
Social Smart Kids is a personalized coaching journey — built around your child's exact age, reading level, and interests — that turns real-life social challenges into practiced, confident skills.
Social skills aren't a personality trait your child either has or doesn't — they're learnable, and I'm going to prove it to them.— Leigh Baumann
What you'll learn
What you'll be able to do
- Recognize why people behave the way they do — including attention-seeking, crowd-following, and manipulation — and respond thoughtfully instead of reactively.
- Read social situations accurately by interpreting body language, tone, facial expressions, and boundary-testing behavior in real peer contexts.
- Manage difficult emotions — embarrassment, anger, fear, and frustration — with practiced self-regulation strategies that build genuine inner confidence.
- Handle bullying, cliques, and difficult people with calm, effective responses tailored to whether the situation calls for ignoring, asserting, or involving a trusted adult.
- Navigate digital social life — group chats, social media, online teasing, and reputation — with clarity, privacy awareness, and confident boundaries.
- Resolve conflict, resist peer pressure, and build trusted friendships by applying the social intelligence skills practiced throughout every personalized lesson.
How it works
A school that adapts to you
This isn't a set of static videos. Every lesson is generated live and tuned to where you actually are.
We learn your level
A quick placement check tailors your starting point so you're never bored or lost.
Lessons adapt as you go
Each lesson is written for your pace and your goal, adjusting as your skills grow.
Your AI coach keeps you moving
Checkpoints, feedback, and gentle nudges turn progress into a real result.
The curriculum
What's inside your school
10 modules · 49 lessons
Understanding People
Explores why people behave the way they do, from attention-seeking and crowd-following to kindness and cruelty spreading through groups.
- 1.1Why People Do What They DoIncluded
- 1.2Attention-Seeking and Why It HappensIncluded
- 1.3Following the CrowdIncluded
- 1.4How Kindness and Cruelty Both SpreadIncluded
- 1.5Spotting Hidden MotivesIncluded
Reading Social Situations
Builds the skill of accurately reading body language, tone, facial expressions, and boundary-testing behavior in everyday peer settings.
- 2.1Friendly vs. Unhealthy BehaviorIncluded
- 2.2What Bodies Are SayingIncluded
- 2.3Faces, Voices, and What They MeanIncluded
- 2.4Recognizing When Someone Tests Your BoundariesIncluded
- 2.5Identifying People Who Are SafeIncluded
Emotional Control
Teaches children to understand, manage, and regulate difficult emotions so they can respond thoughtfully instead of reactively in tough moments.
- 3.1Why Your Reaction Is Part of the StoryIncluded
- 3.2Staying Calm When You Feel EmbarrassedIncluded
- 3.3Handling Fear, Anger, and FrustrationIncluded
- 3.4Building Confidence from the Inside OutIncluded
- 3.5Everyday Exercises for Emotional RegulationIncluded
Confidence Without Pretending
Develops authentic, outward confidence through how children carry themselves, set limits, and show up without performing or masking.
- 4.1Standing, Walking, and Speaking with ConfidenceIncluded
- 4.2Setting Healthy BoundariesIncluded
- 4.3Looking Approachable Without Looking Like a TargetIncluded
- 4.4Genuine Self-Confidence vs. Performing ConfidenceIncluded
Friends and Groups
Guides children through making new friends, joining social groups, handling rejection, and finding people who share their values.
- 5.1How to Make a New FriendIncluded
- 5.2Joining a Conversation or GroupIncluded
- 5.3Handling Rejection Without Falling ApartIncluded
- 5.4Understanding PopularityIncluded
- 5.5Finding People Who Share Your ValuesIncluded
Bullies and Difficult People
Equips children to understand bullying behavior, respond without escalating, and know exactly when and how to involve a trusted adult.
- 6.1Why Bullies Choose Certain TargetsIncluded
- 6.2The Different Types of BullyingIncluded
- 6.3Responding Without Making It WorseIncluded
- 6.4When Ignoring Works — and When It Doesn'tIncluded
- 6.5When to Walk Away and When to Get HelpIncluded
Digital Life
Prepares children to navigate group chats, social media, online teasing, privacy, and reputation with confidence and clear boundaries.
- 7.1Group Chats and Online Social DynamicsIncluded
- 7.2Social Media and How It Shapes YouIncluded
- 7.3Online Teasing and How to RespondIncluded
- 7.4Privacy and Protecting Your InformationIncluded
- 7.5Your Reputation and Your Digital FootprintIncluded
Peer Pressure
Builds the skills to think independently, say no confidently, spot manipulation, and make sound decisions when the social stakes feel high.
- 8.1How Peer Pressure Actually WorksIncluded
- 8.2Saying No — and Having It Land WellIncluded
- 8.3Thinking for Yourself in a GroupIncluded
- 8.4Spotting ManipulationIncluded
- 8.5Making Good Decisions Under PressureIncluded
Solving Conflict
Teaches children to handle disagreements, de-escalate arguments, apologize meaningfully, forgive wisely, and protect their peace.
- 9.1How Disagreements Grow — and How to Stop Them EarlyIncluded
- 9.2De-escalating an ArgumentIncluded
- 9.3How to Apologize in a Way That Actually WorksIncluded
- 9.4Forgiving WiselyIncluded
- 9.5Protecting Your PeaceIncluded
Becoming Socially Smart
Brings all skills together, helping children read people deeply, build trust, earn respect, and use their social intelligence to lead and lift others.
- 10.1Reading People AccuratelyIncluded
- 10.2How Trust Is Built — and BrokenIncluded
- 10.3Becoming Someone Others RespectIncluded
- 10.4Leading Without BossingIncluded
- 10.5Using Social Intelligence for LifeIncluded
Who it's for
Is this you?
The New-Kid Parent
Your family just moved and your child is starting over socially — this course gives them the friend-making and group-joining skills to land on their feet.
The Bullied Child
Your child is dealing with a bully and needs a real decision framework — not vague advice — for responding calmly and knowing when to get help.
The Quiet, Anxious Kid
Your child has a lot going on inside but struggles to project it outward — the emotional regulation and confidence-building sections give them tools that actually work.
The Teen in a Peer Pressure Spot
Your teenager is navigating a crowd that doesn't always make good choices — the peer pressure and manipulation-spotting lessons help them think for themselves without losing their social footing.
The Digitally Overwhelmed Tween
Group chats, social media drama, and online teasing are already part of your child's life — this course helps them navigate digital social dynamics with clarity and confidence.
The Proactive Parent
Your child is doing fine socially, and you want to keep it that way — this course builds the deeper social intelligence that turns 'doing fine' into genuinely thriving.
Questions
Frequently asked
Your teacher
A note from your teacher
Leigh Baumann
If you're reading this, there's a good chance you've watched your child come home quieter than they left. Maybe they brushed it off when you asked. Maybe they said "nothing happened" and went straight to their room. And maybe your gut told you that something did happen — something social, something that stung — and that they just didn't have the words or the tools to deal with it yet.
I know that feeling as a parent, and I built Social Smart Kids because of it.
Here's the thing most of us weren't taught: social life has a skill set. Understanding why people behave the way they do, reading a room accurately, staying calm when you're embarrassed or angry, knowing how to respond to a bully without making it worse, saying no to peer pressure in a way that doesn't cost you your friendships — these are learnable skills. Not personality traits. Not things you either have or you don't. Skills. And like any skill, they can be taught, practiced, and genuinely owned.
What I didn't want to build was another generic "be kind, use your words" program that talks at kids without meeting them where they are. Every lesson in this course adapts to your child — their age, their reading level, their interests, their world. A 9-year-old gets stories and characters they can picture. A 14-year-old gets frank, direct scenarios that don't waste their time. A 17-year-old gets the kind of real talk that respects that they're almost an adult navigating genuinely complex social dynamics. No two kids move through this the same way, because no two kids are the same.
The curriculum covers the full terrain of real social life: understanding people's hidden motives, reading body language and tone, managing big emotions before they hijack a situation, making friends in new environments, handling cliques and bullies, protecting a digital reputation, resolving conflict, resisting manipulation, and building the kind of genuine confidence that doesn't depend on what anyone else thinks. That's not a list of topics — that's a map of the social world your child is already living in.
I want your child to finish this course and feel like they understand the game — not so they can be calculating or manipulative, but so they can be calm. Grounded. Genuinely themselves, without being an easy target or a pushover. That's what social intelligence actually looks like in a kid, and it's what I'm here to help them build.
If your child is ready to feel less lost and more capable in their social world, I'm glad you found us. Let's get started.
— Leigh Baumann
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- 10 modules, 49 lessons
- AI-adaptive lessons tuned to your level
- Quizzes & checkpoints to lock in progress
- Your own AI learning coach
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