Tips for Parents
How to talk to kids so they will listen:
-Plan a quiet, non-threatening time to talk
- Listen without interruptions
- Ask for their ideas and opinions
- Keep your voice calm and low and your body language non-defensive
- Aviod being overly critical
How to set reasonable rules:
- Don't make rules so restrictive that neither you not the child can follow them.
- Get feedback from your child
- Follow through on what you're going to do, but don't be afraid to admit when you've made a mistake
- Be aware of school and other parents' rules, curfews and limits
- Remember that you have control over the three "T's"- telephone, television and transportation
Helpful your child achieve in school:
- Know whats going on in school. Call the school staff and visit the school
- Be supportive of the school and education
- Provided and enforce a proper study time
- Sit down witgh your child and write reasonalbe goals
Working with the school:
- Keep communication lines open with the school
- Try suggestions of teachers and other school staff
- Give the school information about your child that may be helpful
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