Parenting Your Seventh Grader: A Guide to Making the Most of the "Who's Going?" Phase

by Kristen Ivy, Reggie Joiner

Parenting Your Seventh Grader MAKE THE MOST OF EVERY PHASE IN YOUR CHILD'S LIFE You have approximately 936 weeks from the time your child is born until he or she graduates from high school. It goes by fast, and kids change and grow quickly. It's as if they shift or move on just as you're starting to figure them out. It all makes the responsibility to shape a child's faith and character feel overwhelming. Parenting Your Seventh Grader is a concise and interactive guide that simplifies what you need to know about seventh graders in general and gives you a place to discover more about your seventh grader, so you can make the most of this phase. You are suddenly receiving fashion advice and culture lessons from your own kid, but you might be in one of the best phases of your child's life. THIS IS THE PHASE WHEN NOTHING YOU DO IS COOL, WHAT THEY FEEL RIGHT NOW MATTERS MOST, AND ONE SUDDENLY SOCIAL KID WANTS TO KNOW, "WHO'S GOING?" Discover...
About the Phase Project The Phase Project, including this guide, is a synthesis of personal experience, academic research, and gatherings of leaders and educational experts from across the child development spectrum. Designed in partnership with Parent Cue, this guide is one volume in an 18-part series to help you parent your child through every year.

63 pages, Paperback

Published July 18, 2017

Reviews

[Head Over Heels in Books · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love the "Parenting Your... Series". The driving focus of each book is to make the most of every phase your child goes through in life. Each book starts with that same fact: we get approx. 936 week with our children, from babbling babies to grown adults ready to take on the world themselves. After that reminder you are struck with the reminder that those weeks are dwindling! These are part a parenting books, and part journals for tracking all the fun things your kiddo is doing during this stage of life.

Each of these books is geared toward where your child is at during their current phase. For your seventh-grader you will get a call to action on what to say, how to interact with, and memories to make and remember your twelve-year(ish) kid by. There are great tips on how to handle conversations that may come during this pivotal age. A whole list of phrases your kiddo needs to hear from you at this point in their life. There is even a great list of great books to read with your big kid. As a mini parenting book you will walk away with tools to help your child emotionally, mentally, in social situations, and with their faith walk.

I started this series for my now 11 year old. She's a grade ahead in school so I kind of jumped up a book in order to meet her where her peers are at. I have re-read each book for my two younger ones (currently re-reading Parenting Your Four Year Old for my youngest). Each time I am reminded just how fleeting these years are. I decided to get a separate journal for each of my kids and complete the journaling portion of this book in their individual journals. Kind of like Mama's Memoirs to them about their childhood.

I recommend a box of tissues if you do decide to pick up this book, because realizing how quickly the time passes each year is sure to leave you with all the feels.

[L Frost · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great handbook to keep and refer to throughout this school year. Some things you know and just need to be reminded of. Other things are new and insightful. The questions and areas to write your answers may be the most thought provoking and helpful because they cause you to really stop and think about your individual child, you as a parent and things you specifically can do going forward.