Understand and Parent Your School-Age Child

School-age School-age Understand and Parent Your School-Age Child

Your school-age child is learning to function independently. He has much to learn and a long way to go, and you must provide support without controlling and provide autonomy without abandoning. Your Child’s Growth and Development He systematically learns and masters. He needs to achieve in order to feel worthwhile. He internalizes your values and functions independently; he thinks he knows it all. He works on physical capability by practicing and playing with friends. He can reason logically, organize himself, categorize, and think about thinking. Friends become very important, and he works out ways of getting along with them. How to Parent Your School-Age Child  Teach and guide. His industry and eagerness to learn will prompt you. Talk and listen; consult and support to work out expectations and limits. Give independence as he demonstrates responsibility. Work behind the scenes with other adults and outside opportunities. How to Parent Your School-Age Child with Respect to Feeding Retain leadership with family meals and food selection. Give guidelines for food away from home and time limits for snacks. Accept suggestions for menus after he masters food acceptance. Help him to know what he knows about his intuitive eating capabilities. For a comprehensive set of educational materials that teach stage-related feeding and solve feeding problems, see ELLYN SATTER'S FEEDING IN PRIMARY CARE PREGNANCY THROUGH PRESCHOOL: Easy-to-Read Reproducible Masters (4th grade reading level, English and Spanish) and ELLYN SATTER'S NUTRITION AND FEEDING FOR INFANTS AND CHILDREN: Handout Masters (7th grade reading level, English only). Copyright © 2005 by Ellyn Satter. For more about feeding your school-age child, see Ellyn Satter’s Your Child's Weight: Helping Without Harming or www.EllynSatter.com. For permission to reproduce this handout, call (800)808-7976 or e-mail info@ellynsatter.com

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