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Growing Child
 
 
Socialization
Grade  
Kindergarten Friends: An Important Part of Life
First Grade Potpourri: Collecting, coordination, and birthday parties
"Pick Me!": Physical fitness, money, and ceremonies
Magpies and Rude Jaybirds: Acquiring possessions and challenging caregivers
 
Grade 2 Over-stimulated: A quiet place of one's own
 
Grade 3 Personal Poise: Grooming, good manners, and good balance
Clubs: Organizing clubs is a favorite activity
Creative Solutions: Friendships, writing tasks, and allowances
 
Grade 4 Fighting: When horseplay turns to violence
Peer Groups: Doing what "everybody else" does
Rejection: Helping your child cope with rejection
 
Grade 5 Naughty Words: Why a child uses foul language
Computers: Preparing for the computer age
 
Grade 6 Independence: Wanting to be alone
 
Grade 7 Socializing: Rules of social behavior depend on time, place, person
Peer Pressue: Peer pressure is a strong influence for seventh graders, parents
 
Grade 8 Rejection: Understanding and coping with rejection
Independence: Independence is important but tricky to achieve
Sports: Sports fun helps develop physical fitness, sociability
Responsibility: Responsibility is an acquired skill
 
Grade 9 Sports: Sports are fun - and good for you
Peer Pressure: Peer pressure has strong influence on teens
 
Grade 10 Vandalism: Senseless destruction you can stop
Intellectual Capacity: Seeing the other point of view will exercise your mind
 
Grade 11 Peer Pressure: Self esteem comes from being true to yourself
Culture: Real people are much more interesting than stereotypes
 
Grade 12 Socializing: What makes a relationship?
Communication: Listening and responding to another's feelings