Parenting School Aged Children

A. Physical Development

• Parenting issues:

B. Intellectual development

1. Cognitive and linguistic achievements

2. Schooling & Academic Achievement

3. Parenting issues

C.  Social-Emotional Development

1. Emotional expression/understanding

2. Parent-child relationships

3. Moral development

4. Development of the Self

5. Peer relationships/peer rejection

• Social and social-cognitive skills

• Peer groups

• peer rejection/bullying

 

 

 

 

• What predicts movement out of rejected status?

 

 

 

 

• Friendships

• Gender stereotypes

6. Parenting issues

II. Concerns of Parents of school-aged children

A. Promoting positive relationships (in and out of home)

1. Parent-child relationships

2. Sibling Relationships

 

 

 

 

3. Peer relationships

B.  Adjustment to school and academic achievement

 1. Parent involvement

 

 

 

 

2. Motivation (Dweck)

C.   Discipline and promoting positive moral choices