Parenting Your Sixth Grader: A Guide to Making the Most of the "Who Cares" Phase

by Kristen Ivy, Reggie Joiner

Parenting Your Sixth 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 Sixth Grader is a concise and interactive guide that simplifies what you need to know about sixth graders in general and gives you a place to discover more about your sixth grader, so you can make the most of this phase. Your kid's humor is on a scale from silly to really silly, and you might be in one of the best phases of your child's life. THIS IS THE PHASE WHEN THERE'S NEVER ENOUGH GROCERIES, TOO MANY HORMONES, AND A DRAMATIC KID WHO NEEDS SOMEONE TO PROVE, "WHO CARES." 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.

Genres: Parenting, Nonfiction

63 pages, Paperback

Published July 18, 2017

Reviews

[Sara Hill · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love keeping these books for my kids each year.

[Megan Iranpour · Rating 3 out of 5]

I bought the books for 6-8 grade as a set when my older daughter was in 7th grade. I found the 7th grade one to be a helpful starting place. I came back to the 6th grade one in January because my younger daughter was facing monumental struggles and I wasn’t sure we were going to be able to face sixth grade, developmentally. I came to the book from a place of: can we even do this? And less from a place of: what should I expect? The book, again, gives helpful foundations with room to reflect and grow, but the real world facing our middle schoolers is not so cut and dry and I wish it would tackle the real struggles facing our kids in a modern world. This was very generic and therefore did not address topics that may not be an issue in, say, five years, so as to remain relevant. But that was to its detriment. A good starting point, but you’re going to need more than this one if you are looking for guidance.

[Lmichelleb · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good thoughts and reminders for basic maintaining of relationship with a middle school child. Gives of ideas of what to be focusing on, what kinds of questions to ask.

[Kati B · Rating 3 out of 5]

Didn’t tell me anything that wasn’t already ‘logical’