Parent/Teacher Conferences (Parent Tips)

Children often test their parents to see if they really mean business. Don't be surprised if this happens to you. When given a consequence, your child may cry, scream, yell, beg, or throw a tantrum. Stand your ground! No matter how much your child cries and pleads, you must follow through with the consequences. Don't give in no matter how upset your child becomes. If you give in, then your words won't mean much to your child in the future.

Praise your child when he or she behaves appropriately at school. This is very important. Often a child misbehaves simply for attention. If they are needy for attention, they won't care if it's negative attention or positive attention. Praising your child positively as often as possible will set up a pattern for desiring positive reinforcement. This is constructive and healthy. The other can be established into a pattern too and it is hard to correct, but not impossible. All children love to recieve praise from their parents and your is no exception.

With these guidelines in place, hopefully any discourse can easily be re-charted in a healthy direction. Here's hoping you have one of the best school years ever.

Thomas Robertson offers some helpful tips on Classroom discipline and Karen Stafford has some words of wisdom for getting cooperation from students, teachers and parents at this link.

Classroom Management - This web page is geared more to teachers and how to set up a better environment and guideline for good behavior but parents might like to see what things are important to most educators.

Tips offered from the Family Education site.

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