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Nine Practical Points for Parents
Grade  
Kindergarten Reports: What do those reports tell you?
Parenting: Stand united!
Values: Teach what your family believes
Conferences: What you can learn from them
Summer: Make the rules now
 
Grade 1 Count the Ways: Father figures
Summary: Handle with Care
 
Grade 2 Self-Sufficiency: A growing awareness of self and others
Reasoning abstractly: Punishment, and space and time
School: Visiting School
 
Grade 3 Motivation: To school, into the bathtub, and interacting with parents
Mother: Devotion - and resistance - to mother is strong now
 
Grade 4 Understanding: Understanding your child's individuality
Reading: How parents can help develop the habit
Television: A very strange babysitter
Sex: Sexual development and curiosity
Self Esteem: A positive attitude helps self-esteem
Library: What children find at the library
Parent Tantrums: How parental anger affects children
 
Grade 5 Observation Skills: Getting to know your child
Meet the Teacher: Guidelines for successful parent-teacher conferences
Behavior: How parents can effectively control children's behavior
Parenting Skills: When parents disagree
Individuality: Encouraging your child's uniqueness
Workaholic Parents: What's the cost of overwork?
Success: Helping children turn failure into success
Listening: Listening is more than just hearing
Health: Preparing a child for a hospital stay
Self-esteem: How parent atittudes affect a child's confidence
Friends: Fifth-grade friendships often are intense
Sports: Competitive sports for fifth graders
 
Behavior Behavior: What behavior do you want from your child
Criticism: What to say when children criticize
Babysitters: Is it time to say goodbye to the babysitter?
Special Help: When a child needs special help
Death: What to tell a child about death and dying
Drugs: The problem of drug abuse
 
Grade Seven Sports: Making sports a family affair for fun and fitness
Communication: Actions speak louder than words
Values: Changing values are part of growing up
Peer Pressue: Peer pressure is a strong influence for seventh graders, parents
Emotional Changes: Helping seventh graders cope with emotional changes
Discipline/Punishment: Discipline teaches better lessons than punishment
Death: Understanding the five stages of loss and grief
Parent-teen Problems: Guidelines for resolving parent-teen problems
 
Behavior Behavior: Rebellious behavior indicates search for personal values
Independence: Independence is important but tricky to achieve
Parent-Teen Problems: How to turn arguments into positive exchanges
Responsibility: Responsibility is an acquired skill
Frustration: Take the time to talk out frustration and conflicts
Communication: Good communication starts with listening
 
Grade 9 Parent-teen problems: Parent-teen problems: Settle problems with talk and respect
 
Grade 10 Parents and Teachers: Counselors and parent-teacher interviews help students
Communication: Honest, open messages get best results
Grade 11 Parent-Teen Problems: Family meetings help keep the peace
Grade 12 Future: Parents can be a good resource for planning your future path
Teen-parent Problems: Rational discussion of alternatives helps relationships