Social Growth

• Eat to get along with at home and better behaved.
• Often shows off.
• Relates more easily to others.
• Interested in boy-girl relationships but will not admit it.
• Likes to compete and play games.

 

Tips to Help Your Child Grow

1. Role model morals, values, ethics, and behavior.

2. Help with your child’s self-esteem by honoring his/her efforts and showing you love him/her.

3. Show and tell your child how important school is. Go to parent-teacher meetings and other school events. Learn about school projects and help with homework because there is more of it and it’s harder.

4. Be fair with what you expect from you child. Challenge your child to set high but fair goals.

5. Promote a sense of responsibility for his/her actions.

6. Role model affection and respect for family.

7. Spend alone time with your child. This is very important if you have other children.

8. Promote safe, physical activity and set a limit on watching TV and computer use.

9. Share means as a family. Ask your child to help prepare meals.

10. Know your child’s friends and their families.

11. Handle anger well in the family.

12. Set aside special time just to talk with your child.

13. Teach your child how to manage anger and resolve conflicts without physical or emotional violence.

10th & 11th Year

Physical Growth

• Slow growth in height but rapid weight gain. May become obese/heavy during this time if not active.
• Posture more similar to an adult’s.
• May start puberty. Body lines in girls soften and round out.
• Rest of adult teeth come in.

 

Mental/Emotional Growth

• May do work on own around home (chores) and neighborhood.
• Meets own needs or those of other children left briefly in his/her care.

• Cooks, sews, repairs things, cares or pets, and does other “adult” tasks when learns them.
• Washes and fries own hair but may need reminding.
• Starts to do more homework without help from parents.
• Uses phone and computer more often.
• Reads more for pleasure and to learn (magazines, books, and websites).
• Knows more than what is right and wrong. Can explain the morals and values that make something right or wrong.
  
  

Social Growth

• Lakes family. Family has more meaning.
• Likes mother and wants to please her.
• More comfort with showing affection (hugs) to non-family.
• Adores and looks up to father. (Enjoy it while it lasts!)
• Likes friends and talks about them all the time.
• More “choosey” with friends.
• Starts to like the other sex.
• Is more polite to others, shrewd, and clever.
• Writes short letters and emails to friends and family.

 

Tips to Help Your Child Grow

1. Be ready for a lot of new behavior ahead of the teen years. Friends become more important. Your child might talk back to you more often and test you in other ways. He/she will try to become more independent such as refuse to take part in family events. He/she may be more moody and take risks.

2. Role model morals, values, ethics, and behavior. Your child watches you more closely than ever.

3. Help your child’s self-esteem by praising him/her and showing you love him/her.

4. Show and tell your child how important school is. Go to parent-teacher meetings and other school events. Learn about school projects and help with homework because there is more of it and it’s harder.

5. Be fair with what you expect from your child. Challenge your child to set high but fair goals.

6. Promote safe, physical activity and set limits on watching TV and computer use.

7. Share means as a family.

8. Knows your child’s friends and their families.

9. Set aside time just to talk with your child.

10. Discuss and show the value and meaning of money in family and culture. Discuss and allowance, chores, savings, gift giving, charity, etc.

11. Teach your child how to manager anger and resolve conflicts without physical or emotional violence.