Yesterday was the conclusion of my series of seven blogs based on the Excellence in Education Awards given out recently by St. Louis Magazine.
To refresh your memory —
1. Being involved matters.
2. Tell your child you love them every day.
3. Read with your child every day, and ask questions. We have to create thinkers. Our society and our world rest on innovation.
4. Don’t work so much that you miss your child growing up.
5. Be excited about school, teachers, principals. It all matters because all kids are listening to the conversation.
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1. Love hard.
2. Embrace failure.
3. Say “Yes and….”
4. Embrace technology.
5. Get a network or people who are as like you and as unlike you as possible.
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1. Let your children do what they can for themselves.
2. Make sure they experience some kind of disappointment in their day — so they know how to deal with it.
3. Read to them every day.
4. Sit down on the floor and play with them.
5. Teach them to try first before asking for help.
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1. Always smile.
2. Before you speak, take a deep breath.
3. If you are real with your child, your child will feel that he or she can be real with you.
4. If you go the distance, they will go the distance with you.
5. For every one frustration, try to find four or five specific compliments for your child.
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1. Trust the teacher.
2. Know that the teacher loves your child.
3. Be in close communication with teachers.
4. Share family issues with teachers.
5. Don’t white-knuckle it. Enjoy being with your child during his or her schooling; it goes by so quickly.
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1. Help your child understand the importance of developing a schedule that allows time at night to study, read, and do homework.
2. Get involved. Let the teachers know they have your support. If you need resources, ask for them.
3. Continually tell your child that he or she can achieve what he or she wants.
4. Know what your rights are as a parent and what your child’s rights are as a student.
5. In the summer, keep your children involved in something that involves their brains.
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1. Read with your child every day, no matter how old he or she is.
2. Communicate; converse with them. Be interested in what they are doing at school.
3. Communicate with the teachers at school.
4. Be involved with every aspect of the child’s life that you can.
5. Love them.
Glancing back over these, what do you see as a consistent theme or two?
How could you and apply this in your own life as you come into contact with children and youth?
Serious questions…I’d love to hear your answers.
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And thanks in advance.
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