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Growing Child
 
 
Starting School
Grade  
Kindergarten Adjusting: Helping your child adjust to school
Manners: Learning the ground rules
Reports: What do those reports tell you?
Conferences: What you can learn from them
Conferences: Helping your child wherever (s)he is
 
Grade 1 A Year Older: What to expect from your growing child
Starting School: Sharing the joys and fears of a new world
School Preparation: Recognizing typical behaviors
Reactions to School: Adjustment to a new routine
Summary: Handle with care
Attitude Adjustment: Cheating, school fun, and bike riding
Fundamentally Speaking: Retaining the first grader
 
Grade 2 Returning to School: Anticipation and a good night's sleep
Hurry Up and Wait: Looking forward to each day
Growing Anxieties: Teachers, homework, and a sense of self
Introspection: Dealing with forgetfulness, resistance, and teacher conferences
"Quiet Please": Outside voices, educational needs, and a collection of goodies
School: Visiting School
 
Grade 3 Increasing Interests: Interest in school
Motivation: To school, into the bathtub, and interacting with parents
 
Grade 4 New School Year: Helping your child get a good start
 
Grade 5 Starting School: What your child's teacher needs to know
School Phobia: When children don't want to go to school
 
Grade 6 Special Help: When a child needs special help
Junior High/Middle School: Getting ready
 
Grade 7 Learning to Learn: Choose to make school learning an exciting and challenging pursuit
Responsibility: Turning responsibility into a positive attitude
 
Grade 8 Intellectual Development: Grades only one measure of intellectual development
 
Grade 9 Emotional Changes: How to cope with emotions and fears
 
Grade 11 Intellectual Capacity: It's not too late to catch up in school
Test Anxiety: Study and learning tips help you beat test anxiety and make the grade!
 
Grade 12 Ambition: It's not too late to earn that passing grade!
Education: Education is a life-long process