Cooper City · Two age groups: 4–5 & 6–9 · Six children each
You've watched your child stand at the edge of the group, wanting in.
It isn't shyness to fix or behavior to correct. It's a skill nobody has taught them yet — and it can be practiced, in a small group, with someone right there in the moment it matters.
No payment to apply. Every family has a short placement call first.
Sound familiar?
You know these moments.
If two or more of these sound like your child, this group was built for them.
Social skills aren't taught at a table.
They're learned in the four seconds after something goes wrong. When two children want the same toy. When someone loses and it all falls apart. When a child wants to join and doesn't know how to start.
Those four seconds are the whole lesson. And they only happen when there are other children in the room.
The practice that disappeared
Tired of a screen doing all the talking?
Children spend hours on a device and barely minutes actually talking to each other. Nobody calls a friend anymore, nobody knocks on a door — and the everyday practice that used to build social skills quietly went away with it.
This is an hour with no screens, with other children, where talking to each other is the entire point.
And it belongs to every child — the child with an ADHD or anxiety diagnosis, the child in the middle of an evaluation, and the child with nothing on paper who simply hasn't had enough chances to practice. It's the same skill, and it's learned the same way.
The method
What that actually looks like
They practice asking, offering and waiting — with someone right there helping them find the words in the moment.
We rehearse the opening line together, and then they use it. Today, not in theory.
We name the feeling, sit with it a moment, and get back into the game. That's where a child learns they can recover.
They practice noticing what the group needs, not only what they want — without anyone lecturing them.
This is not a class.
Most after-school activities put children in a room together and hope friendship happens. The children who already know how to join in do the joining. The ones who don't stay at the edge. This group was built for the children at the edge.
Not a drop-off activity
Every session runs on a plan, and every child arrives with one to three goals set together with you — not general goals for the group.
Not a playdate
Tali is in the room the whole time — watching for the exact moments that matter and coaching the children through them as they happen.
Not one-on-one sessions
A child cannot practice friendship alone. The other five children are not the setting — they are the curriculum.
Five steps
How it works
We start with you
A short questionnaire and a placement call. Together we choose one to three goals for your child — not general ones. Specific ones.
Your child plays
Lego, kinetic sand, board games, bingo, cards, art, imaginative play, team challenges. Nothing that feels like a lesson.
Tali coaches in the moment
Not a lecture at the end. A quiet word, a suggestion, a quick rehearsal — right as the situation is happening, while it still means something.
You get a private call every month
Twenty minutes, one on one: what Tali saw, what worked for your child, where their strengths are, and what to keep building.
You take it home
Practical language and ideas for playdates, siblings, birthday parties, and the hard moments in between.
Who leads it
Tali Gal
Tali has spent 20 years working with children. She is a Registered Behavior Technician (RBT), a parent coach, and a former preschool teacher — years spent in rooms full of small children. She is also the author of Animals' Tales of Feelings, a picture book that helps children put names to what they feel.
Her approach is the same in the book and in the room: connection before correction. A child who feels understood is a child who can learn something new.
The book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Animals-Tales-Feelings-Exploring-emotions/dp/B0GZ7KYBN1
What this is, and what it isn't
This is a structured social practice group — enrichment and skill building. It is not therapy, not a clinical service, and not a diagnostic assessment, and it does not replace one. If your child is working with a therapist or an evaluation team, this group sits alongside that work.
Two small groups
Playing alongside others, taking turns, asking instead of grabbing, sharing, joining a game, personal space, flexibility, and getting through small frustrations.
Joining a group, starting a conversation, winning and losing, flexibility, settling arguments, listening, seeing another child's point of view, and working together.
Where we meet
In a private room inside a community building in the plaza right next to the Embassy Lakes neighborhood in Cooper City. The exact address is sent once your spot is confirmed.
Each age group meets on its own day. When you register we'll ask which day works better for your family, and the final schedule is set by what most families in the group need.
What's included
- Four weekly sessions of 90 minutes
- A group of six children — never more
- Parent questionnaire and a placement call before you start
- Live coaching in every single session
- A private 20-minute parent call each month
- Tools and language to keep using at home
Tali keeps the first groups small and speaks with every family herself. Send her a message on WhatsApp and she'll come back to you with pricing, current openings, and an answer to anything you want to ask.
Message Tali on WhatsAppThe First Session Promise
Come to the first session. If it isn't the right fit for your child, tell us and you get a full refund. No questions, no forms.
Registration
Request a spot
Requesting a spot doesn't charge you anything. Every family has a short placement call first, so we can make sure the group is right for your child.
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Tali will be in touch to set up a short placement call, so you can decide together whether the group is right for your child.
Prefer to just ask a question first? Message Tali on WhatsApp
Questions parents ask
Do I stay, or drop off?
For ages 4–5 you're welcome to stay for the first session and settle in with your child. After that most families drop off — children practice far more freely when a parent isn't in the room. Ages 6–9 are drop-off from the first session.
My child has an ADHD diagnosis, or we're in the middle of an evaluation. Can they join?
Yes. Many of the children in these groups need extra support with waiting, flexibility and impulse control. The placement call is exactly where we work out together whether the group is a good fit.
My child is very shy. Won't a group be too much?
A group of six is small on purpose. Shy children usually do better here than in a class of twenty, because there's nowhere to disappear — and someone is right there to help them take the first step.
Boys and girls together?
Yes. Every group has children who are shy, children who are loud, and children somewhere in between. That mix is deliberate — it's what makes the practice real.
What language are the sessions in?
Sessions are in English. Tali also speaks Hebrew and is happy to talk with you in either language.
What if we miss a session?
It happens. Let us know in advance and we'll do our best to help your child catch up on what the group worked on. Sessions can't be carried over to the next month.
Six spots in each group.
If your child is one of the children standing at the edge, this is the place to start.
Request a spotOr simply message Tali on WhatsApp
No payment to apply. Full refund after the first session if it isn't the right fit.