Parents Guide to 8th Grade Ensure Your Childs Success In School

Parents Guide to 8th Grade Ensure Your Childs Success In School:
This book is designed to give you information and advice that will help you be a more effective parent to your eighth grade child. The book aims to give you an understanding of the whole eighth grade experience— the emotional, physical, and intellectual changes and challenges your child will face this year. This first chapter presents an overview of what your eighth grader is going through on these three fronts while the rest of the book develops key ideas more fully and offers concrete strategies for being an involved and effective parent. The following chapters describe the eighth grade curriculum in detail, explain the stages of your child's social and emotional development, offer activities to supplement classroom learning, and suggest ways to develop a close relationship with your young teen. In addition, you'll learn about the benefits of extracurricular activities, the standardized tests your child will face in eighth grade, how to explore possible career paths and higher education choices with your teen, and where to find some of the best magazines, books, CD-ROMs, and websites for you and your eighth grader.