People Smart Children

What does it mean to be People Smart? These children and adults like people and can express it in an amazing number of ways. On the basic level , they enjoy working, learning, helping, and being with other people. If you answer yes to any of the questions below, then your child might be identified as being People Smart, according to Thomas Armstrong, PhD.

Does your child:
1. like to people watch?
2. make friends easily?
3. offer to help when someone needs it?
4. enjoy group activities and lively conversations?
5. help other people around you get along better?
6. feel confident when meeting new people?
7. like to organize activities for you and your friends?
8. easily guess how people are feeling just by looking at them?
9. know how to get people excited about working together or how to get them involved in things their interested in?
10. enjoy getting people to see things their way?
11. get concerned about issues of fairness and right and wrong?
12. enjoys volunteering for causes that help other people?