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 so quickly. It's as if they change 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 guide that simplifies what you need to know about sixth graders in general and offers interactive ways to discover more about your own sixth grader to help you make the most of this phase. Discover ...
About the Phase Guides Parenting Your Sixth Grader is part of a series of books designed especially for busy people. These guides are more than a "journal" but less than a detailed "manual." Use this book to look ahead at key ways your child will be growing this physically, mentally, socially, emotionally, and spiritually. Jot down thoughts and observations to help you make the most of this phase. For more, check out other books in this Don't Miss It, a concise volume to help you parent every week like it counts, and It's Just a Phase, an in-depth look at each phase, especially for church leaders. These resources are designed in partnership with Parent Cue (ParentCue.org). 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. Parent Cue is affiliated with a non-profit Christian organization whose mission is to help kids and teenagers have an authentic faith that supports their future.

Genres: Parenting, Nonfiction

63 pages, Paperback

Published July 16, 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’