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Table of Contents One: Your Nurturing Family Responding in Moderation: Rules and Boundaries: Discipline: Expectations for Children: Development: The Learning Process: Assessing Your Relationship: Assessing Your Child's Adjustment: Is your child; Two: Your Growing Child TOUCHING AND PHYSICAL CONTACT: TOILET TRAINING: LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT: SPEECH PROBLEMS: EATING AND TABLE MANNERS: ADOLESCENTS: TABLE MANNERS: EATING TOO FAST OR TOO SLOWLY: LEARNING ABOUT BOUNDARIES AND LIMITS: HOW TO GET YOUR CHILD TO STAY IN BED: HELPING AROUND THE HOUSE: THE EXPANDING WORLD OF EXPERIENCES AND ACTIVITIES: LEARNING ABOUT RESPONSIBILITIES: PHYSICAL SKILLS: ROLLER SKATES AND BICYCLES: FIGHTING AND FENDING FOR ONESELF: TALKING BACK: Three: Your Emotional Child CHILDREN AND FEAR: FEAR OF THUNDER, SNAKES, AND SPIDERS: NIGHTMARES: ANGER AND TEMPER TANTRUMS: POUTING AND WITHDRAWAL: EXCITEMENT AND HAVING FUN: BEING BORED: DISAPPOINTMENT AND LOSS: LOVE AND HATE: HATE: Four: Your Moral Child STEALING: LYING: LEARNING ABOUT RELIGION: LEARNED VALUES VERSUS EXPERIENCED VALUES: CUSTOMARY VALUES VERSUS MORAL VALUES: MEMORIZED VALUES VERSUS SELF-COMPUTED VALUES: RESOLVING VALUE-CONFLICTED SITUATIONS: Five: Your Social Child FAMILY AND FRIENDS: FRIENDS AND PLAYMATES: GOING TO SCHOOL: GETTING ALONG WITH TEACHERS AND SCHOOLMATES: STAYING AT SCHOOL: GROUPS AND COOPERATIVE ACTIVITIES: CLUBS AND CLUBHOUSES: HIGH SCHOOL AND HANGING OUT: TEENAGERS AND CARS: EXTRACURRICULAR AND OTHER ACTIVITIES: TEENAGERS AND DATING: OTHER FRIENDSHIPS: Six: Your Thinking Child LEARNING BY OBSERVING: LEARNING THROUGH IMITATION: LEARNING THROUGH TRIAL AND ERROR: LEARNING ABOUT THINGS AND RELATIONSHIPS: LEARNING ABOUT PEOPLE AND SITUATIONS: SANTA CLAUS AND THE TOOTH FAIRY: SUCCEEDING ACADEMICALLY: PIANO LESSONS AND OTHER EXTRACURRICULAR INSTRUCTION: RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES: LEARNING TO THINK INDEPENDENTLY: Seven: Your Child And Stress Signs of stress: Restlessness and trouble calming down: Trouble concentrating and paying attention: Trouble going to sleep or awakening during the night: Bad dreams and nightmares: Headaches: Trouble with an upset stomach: Cries easily or has crying spells: Loses his temper easily and quickly: Eight: Your Child And Depression Signs of depression: Not getting up-and-over the loss of an important relationship: Not getting over a serious loss or disappointment: Thinks he cannot do anything about what happens to him: Talks about suicide: Suicide attempts: Nine: Your Child And School Adjustment Problems The dimensions of learning: Signs of learning and school difficulty Trouble making good choices and decisions: Problems expressing his thoughts and ideas: Trouble doing things most children his age do easily: Difficulty understanding school assignments and what teachers expect: Trouble understanding what he reads: Confused about what he is doing, what people expect or what people are saying: Trying harder does not lead to his homework and other assignments getting better and easier: Does some assignments very well and others very badly: Forgets to do homework or has trouble remembering what was assigned: Difficulty following instructions and directions: Problems paying attention to time or managing time: Gets bad grades: Trouble asking for help or letting anyone help: Difficulty accepting or dealing with criticism: Always has excuses for not doing well: Thinks his not doing well is someone else's fault: Has to have an adult standing over him to get him to do his school work: Feels teachers and other adults at school have it in for him: Disrupts the classroom or the activities of other children: Makes no effort to cooperate and get along: Skips school or misses school a lot: Ten: Your Child And Behavior Problems Signs of serious behavior problems: Pouts and becomes very difficult to live with: Becomes nasty and hateful: Gets extremely angry when things do not go his way: Screams and yells at people: Breaks and damages things: Intentionally hits and hurts people (or animals): Starts and gets into fights: Bullies and picks on others: Treats people cruelly: Refuses to follow the rules or behave like you or other adults expect: Refuses to accept the authority of parents, teachers, or others in charge: Often behaves in socially inappropriate ways: Uses illegal drugs: Has friends who often get into trouble: Has a reputation for not being someone others can depend on or trust: Does not care if he upsets or hurts people: Gets into trouble with the police or courts: Eleven: Your Child And Relationship Problems Signs of relationship problems: Tries to keep his friends all to himself: Often gets his feelings hurt: Often becomes the brunt of teasing and put-downs: Gets up-tight and nervous when anyone is angry or upset: Refuses to stick up for himself: Tries to please everyone and keep everyone happy: Feels like most people do not like him: Is rejected or ignored by most people his age: Worries and frets about not doing things well enough and about failing: Resists starting things because he is afraid they will turn out badly anyway: Gives up too quickly and too easily: Persistently feels very unhappy about his physical and sexual development: Dislikes himself or puts himself down: Feels he does not fit in or belong anywhere: Thinks no one loves him: Feels unlovable: Losing interest in most people and activities: Trouble making and keeping friends: Avoids people and social activities: Only likes activities he can do alone: Refuses to talk to anyone about his feelings and thoughts: Twelve: Your Child And Mental Illness Signs of mental illness: Mood jumps from one extreme to the other and he cannot control it: Vomits after eating or uses laxatives to control his weight: Goes on extreme eating binges: Starves himself: Mistrusts everyone and thinks people are out to get him: Very strange thoughts and feelings he cannot understand or control: Extreme fears that keep him from doing things most children his age do easily: Trouble having people close or touching him: Urinates or defecates in his clothes: Cuts and hurts himself on purpose: A persistent interest in fire, watching fires, setting fires, and doing things with fire: Hears voices and sees things others do not hear and cannot see: Addendum: Your Child And Common Medical Concerns
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