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the middle years
It’s time for your child’s crash course in Social Studies—not the school subject...the real thing. Unfortunately, you can’t hand over a stack of flashcards with the ABC’s of friendship or how to deal with school bullying. But just as you encouraged your child as she learned to read, you can cheer her on from the sidelines of middle childhood.
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What You Need to Know
- 20 Tips to Promote Positive Self-Esteem
- When Good Sports Heroes Go Bad: Helping Kids Understand
- Bullying and Your Child
- Do Kids Need Friends?
- Friends and Friendships
How You Can Help
- What Parents Can Do About Childhood Bullying
- Helping Teens Answer the Question "Who Am I?": Social Development
- Helping Children Develop Self-Control
- Mirror Mirror on the Wall: How to Raise Girls With Healthy Self-Esteem
- Helping Children Develop Healthy Sexual Behavior and Attitudes
- Bullying: It's Not OK
- What Adults Can Do: Cyberbullying
- Helping Children Develop Self-Control
- Discovering Interests and Talents Through Summer Experiences
Learning to Relate to Others Tip Sheet
“The highest priority of a student is to avoid humiliation at all costs.” – Dr. Mel Levine School is not the only place where your child has to navigate the social scene. Check out these tips to learn how you can support your child’s social success. Recognize your child’s ...
Reference | All Kinds of Minds
Back-to-School Tips: Connecting With Your Child's School Counselor for a Successful School Year
Understand the expertise and responsibilities of your child's school counselor. School counselors make a measurable impact in every student's life, assisting with academic, career and personal/social development. Professional school counselors are trained in both educating and counseling, allowing ...
Reference | American School Counselor Association
The Buzz on Bullying
If you grew up and are functioning in American society, you can probably provide your own definition of bullying and have had some level of personal experience with it. Bullying is an all-too-common human activity that has existed since the beginning of recorded history and is present in ...
Reference | American School Counselor Association
Tips for Parents: Teasing, Bullying, and the Role of Friendships
Fred Frankel, Ph.D., ABPP, Director of the UCLA Children's Friendship Program, and author of Good friends are hard to find: Help your child find, make and keep friends and Children's Friendship Training, led an informational seminar for parents of profoundly intelligent children on ...
Reference | Davidson Institute for Talent Development
Straight Talk: Helping Bright Teens Through Tough Times
Let's face it - raising a child is difficult. Add to this fact all the characteristics of exceptionally bright young people that make this population unique. As they get older, they begin to move through adolescence, puberty, and teenage years. On any given day, it's likely that you already have a ...
Reference | Davidson Institute for Talent Development
An Integral Approach to the Social and Emotional Development of the Profoundly Gifted
Like all children profoundly gifted children have essential needs for connecting to others, for being understood, for expressing and exploring feelings and ideas, for reciprocal exchange and for friendship. The exceptional nature of PG children and their rarity in the population, ...
Reference | Davidson Institute for Talent Development
Traversing the Straits of Adolescence: A Guide for Parents of Profoundly Gifted Teens
One of the frustrations for parents (and PG teens, too!) is the grand intellect that seems to fly in the face of the "goofiness" associated with the teen years. At one moment, you are trying to rationalize with a teen worried about zits and dates and telephone conversations--in ...
Reference | Davidson Institute for Talent Development
Gifted Children's Friendships
Linda Silverman wrote, in her wonderful book Counselling the Gifted and Talented, that “When gifted children are asked what they most desire, the answer is often ‘a friend’. The children’s experience of school is completely colored by the presence or absence of friends” ...
Reference | Davidson Institute for Talent Development
Helping Your Child Become a Responsible Citizen: Activities I
Making good decisions is an important part of strong character. What to Do Children learn to exercise good judgment by having many opportunities to make decisions on their own. ...
Reference | U.S. Department of Education
Helping Your Child Become a Responsible Citizen: Resources II
Children's Magazines American Library Association. Notable Children's Books. (www.ala.org/alsc/awards.html#notable) Yearly lists provide brief descriptions of books recommended by a committee of the American Library Association. Hearne, Betsy and Stevenson, Deborah. Choosing Books ...
Reference | U.S. Department of Education
