Mrs. Faison
Guidance Counselor
An
Overview to Virginia Beach City Public Schools’ Guidance/Counseling Services http://www.vbschools.com/guidance/
Positive Communication With
Your Kids
From birth to teenage years and beyond,
communication with your child is very important. Positive communication can
reinforce good behavior and help you understand and eliminate bad behavior. It
can build your child’s confidence and self-esteem. And you can do it
with tips like these:
v Make time to talk with your child.
v When talking with your child, get down to
their level (if necessary) and maintain eye contact.
v Allow your child to finish talking and really
listen to what they are saying.
Parenting
can be tough, but asking for help doesn’t have to be. If you need more help in
communicating with your child or other parenting challenges, reach out!
Are you teaching your child to be responsible?
We want our children to stop dawdling in the
morning, do their homework at night and remember to bring it to school along
with their lunch, books and pencils, keep their rooms picked up, and their
clothing hung up. We want them to be as neat, dependable, and as organized as
we are-or as we wish we were. Here are some helpful ideas for helping them:
1. Be clear about what is important.
2. Consider your child’s temperament.
3. Pick your battles.
4. Let natural consequences help you out.
5. Acknowledge and respect differences.
6. Lighten up. Use humor to diffuse tension.
Ask yourself if you are modeling the
responsible behaviors you are asking your child to perform. Keep in mind-you
both want your child to succeed!
Monitor Media Choices
Many of your child’s friends have seen the latest action movie. Now your
child wants to go, too. “No,” you say, “the movie is too violent.” Are you
being responsible …or overprotective? Only you can decide. But research shows
that violence in the media teaches aggressive behavior with the effects
sometimes showing up years later.
“We are apt
to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.”
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Contact your
school counselor for any ideas and/or suggestions to help your child succeed in
school.
Mrs. Faison,
Guidance Counselor
Phone
(757)-474-8435
Fax (757)
474-8489