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Make Your Home Preteen-Friendly
The preteen and early teen years are difficult ones for kids and for parents. As a middle school counselor, I counsel ...
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Know Your Odds: How Middle School Kids Get Hurt
Kids get hurt in lots of ways during the middle years. Some of the biggest risks include sex, drugs, depression and ...
Source: EduGuide
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The Transition to Middle School
Students make many transitions during their years of schooling: from home to school, elementary to middle school, ...
Source: Educational Resource Information Center (U.S. Department of Education)
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Helping Teens Answer the Question "Who Am I?": Social Development
The journey from childhood to adolescence is very challenging. Between the ages of 10 and 17 there are major changes in ...
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The Everything-There-Is-to-Know About Adolescents Quiz
Adolescence is a time of transition involving dramatic physical, emotional, intellectual and social changes. Most ...
Source: NYU Child Study Center
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Developmental Landmarks and Parenting During Adolescence
Developmental Landmarks of AdolescenceTwo changes distinguish a child’s development during adolescence from ...
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Sixth Grade: Listening + Responding = Communication
Do you speak at your child and with other adults? Can you carry on an easy conversation with your child and your ...
Source: Iowa State University Extension
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Sixth Grade: Becoming Independent
"Everyone Else Is Doing It!"Preteen years are a time of contradictions. One moment the preteen is perfectly ...
Source: Iowa State University Extension
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Communication and Your 6- to 12-Year-Old
Communicating with a child is one of the most pleasurable and rewarding experiences for both parent and child. Children ...
Source: The Nemours Foundation
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Your Middle Schooler's Social Life
Think fifth grade was a bumpy ride? Welcome to middle school, the roller coaster of puberty, peer pressure, and social ...
Source: Education.com
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Self-Regulation
It is clearly important to develop self-understanding and healthy self-esteem. But one of the most important skills ...
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Emotional Intelligence
Emotion has been studied from a variety of theoretical frameworks (e.g., Fox, 1994). Psychoanalytic theorists have ...
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Making Friends in Middle School
Making good grades probably tops your list of goals for your middle school student, but making friends is also ...
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Middle Childhood (9-11 years old)
Developmental MilestonesYour child’s growing independence from the family and interest in friends might be ...
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Gender Differences: Middle School
Here is a thorough parenting guide to understanding gender differences in middle school.
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According to the School Psychologist: 5th Grade
Expert advice from a school psychologist on how parents can better understand their fifth grader.
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Your 5th Grader's Social Life
By fifth grade, your child is likely to be a lean, mean, social machine, and I mean mean. It's a matter of survival. Now...
Source: Education.com -
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Helping Your Child Make Successful Transitions: Elementary to Middle School
The importance of parents being involved in their child’s transition from elementary to middle school cannot be over...
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Emotional Development in Middle School
Crossing over the line from childhood to adolescence is difficult because the line is not clear and there are inherent...
