Social Skills are ways of dealing with others that create healthy and positive interactions. The early socialexperiences are mainly with family members. Thus, home is the seat for learning social skills, only when children havesatisfactory social relations with members of the family, they can fully enjoy social relationships with people outside thehome develop healthy attitudes towards people and learn to function successfully in their peer group and in society to alarge extent. Hence, the present study was conducted to explore the social skills of high school children. The random sampleconsisted of 240 high school children (120 boys and 120 girls) studying in class 8, 9 and 10, age ranging from 13 to 15 yearsdrawn from four English medium schools of urban areas in Dharwad city during 2013-2014. Social skills were measuredusing Social Skills Questionnaire by Spence (1995) and parental factors were measured by using socio-economic scale byAggarwal (2005). Results revealed that there was a significant difference between fathers’ education (c2=13.73*) and socialskills, whereas no significant association was observed between mothers’ education (c2=4.88) and social skills of highschool children. A significant positive relationship was observed between fathers’ education (r=16), mothers’ education(r=0.18) and social skills of high school children. Higher the parental education, higher the social skills of children. Therewas no significant association between fathers’ occupation (c2=1.75), mother’s occupation (c2=5.30) and social skills ofhigh school children. There was a significant association between family income and social skills of high school children(c2=16.09*).Children from high income family had better social skills as compared to other the groups (74.62, 68.98 &71.66 respectively). A significant positive relationship was observed between family income and social skills (r=0.17).