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The Middle Grades--Helping Your Child Through Early Adolescence |
What is school like for young adolescents? It is likely that you attended a junior high school. It probably combined grades seven through nine and resembled a mini high school. You probably moved from class to class throughout the school day and had a different teacher for each subject.
During the past 20 years, many changes have taken place in how young adolescents are educated. These changes continue as we learn more about how these children develop and learn. Today, fewer and fewer young adolescents attend junior highs. Instead, a growing number attend middle schools. Most of these schools are for grades six through eight.
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Discipline: One Size Does Not Fit All |
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I overheard my 12-year old son exclaim to a friend that he “just wished everyone in school would disappear!” My initial response as the parent of a mild-tempered pre-teen boy was a chuckle of general understanding. |
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Today’s middle school students are receiving more homework, which means they need more than ever to develop and hone their organization and time management skills. The best way to support homework efforts is to help children design a framework within which they can do their best work with an increasing degree of independence:
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MySpace: The Most Important Safety Setting |
So many parents worry about how safe their kids are on MySpace and other social networking Internet sites. The media reports frequently on predators who stalk kids on MySpace and on the Internet in general.
So, what is a parent to do? What is the most important safety setting? Along with parental involvement (keeping in touch with what your kids are doing online), the most important safety setting on Myspace.com is the PRIVACY SETTING. This one setting enables you to keep strangers from viewing your child’s information. Only MySpace friends will be able to see the profile (the place where kids post information.)
To make your child’s profile private (not public):
- Login to your child’s account.
- Click account settings.
- Click change settings (next to Privacy Settings.)
- Under who can View My profile, select My Friends only.
- Click the change settings Button.
Setting a profile to private is one of the easiest ways to prevent a predator from reaching your child on MySpace and sites like it. to make this method effective, parents should routinely look at their children’s MySpace Friend list to make sure that all those listed as Friends are real life, safe friends.
Then, when your child adds information (pictures, social event updates, conversations, etc.) only real life, safe friends will read that information. Social networking is here to stay and 95% of children between the ages of 9-15 are actively on social sites. Parents can help keep kids safe by staying involved and keeping information private and out of the hands of those who aren’t real friends.
Michelle Cullison, the creator of Lost in MySpace Seminars, equips parents to guide their kids on sites like MySpace so that kids will learn how to use social networking sites safely, responsibly and with integrity. You can learn more about the seminar and other internet education opportunities by visiting www.LostinMySpace.net or by contacting Michelle at info@lostinmyspace.net. |
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