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Setting Rules and Expectations: Practical Advice For Parents
Dr. Michael Riera, author of “Uncommon Sense for Parents with Teenagers,” gave some sage advice that we thought might be helpful proactively to the parents of our students. His advice was to become patient and competent managers of your young children, so that they will “hire” you back as their life consultants in their teen and adult years.
With this in mind, we thought you might appreciate some reinforcement and support in your pursuit of effective parenting ideas. Below are a few simple suggestions for setting limits for children:
- When you keep your child’s physical and emotional safety at the top of the priority list when developing your family rules or expectations, you will have the most success with enforcing your rules, as well as with your child’s willingness to follow those expectations. The ease results from the fact that rules related to safety are more logical to explain to yourself, your child and others.
- It is the child’s “job” to push the limits and the parents’ responsibility to establish and enforce the limits.
- When your child says to you, “You’re the only parents who don’t let their kids ______________ ” (fill in the blank — go to PG movies, play video games, stay up late, use the Internet, etc.), you are probably on the right track in setting his/her limits. Don’t hesitate to call some parents in your child’s class directly and see what boundaries they have set for their children.
- You will most likely have some family rules that other families in your child’s class don’t happen to enforce, particularly since Chadwick’s community is so diverse. It is always important to reinforce the reasons for rules without necessarily trying to judge or explain other families’ decisions or rules to your child.
We hope these suggestions will prove helpful to you.
Village School news
Illustrator Floyd Cooper to Visit January 28
The Friends of the Library will sponsor a visit from noted illustrator Floyd Cooper on Jan. 28. Cooper, who took an interest in drawing at a very early age, has illustrated more than 15 books. He received the American Library Association's Notable Book Award for his first book, "Grandpa's Face" by Eloise Greenfield, and won Coretta Scott King Illustration Honors for "Meet Danitra Brown" by Nikki Grimes and "I Have Heard of a Land" by Joyce Carol Thomas. His most recent book is "Jump! From the Life of Michael Jordan."
Cooper uses a technique called "oil wash on board" — applying oil paint to an illustration board, then erasing the paint to create the final picture.
Village School News Online
Keep up with the Village School on the "News Flash" page of our Web site, always available via a link in the lower-right corner of our home page. Online at publication time:
Headmaster Welcomes Kindergarten Class To His Home
Weaver Shares His Craft With First-graders
Village School Celebrates The Holidays
Village School Events In January
| Jan. 11 | Village Pizza Day, 11:40 a.m. - 12:10 p.m. |
| Sixth-grade International Experience, 3 - 4:30 p.m. | |
| Jan. 14 | Village Assembly, 8 a.m., Christensen Hall |
| Sixth-grade Getty Museum Field Trip, 8 a.m. | |
| Kindergarten Parenting Class, Ms. Romy's follow-up session, 8 - 10 a.m., Story Corner | |
| Kindergarten Parenting Class, Dr. Scannell's follow-up session, 5- 7 p.m., Story Corner | |
| Jan. 16 | Community Service to Toberman, 3 p.m. |
| Jan. 18 | Fifth-grade Square Dance, 3 - 4:30 p.m. |
| Jan. 25 | Second art quarter ends |
| Jan. 28 | Visiting Author, Illustrator Floyd Cooper, 8 a.m., Christensen Hall. Sponsored by Friends of the Library. |
| Fifth-grade Pali Mountain Field Trip, departs 8:30 a.m. from Ernie Howlett Park |
Click for Campus-wide Events, Middle School Events and Upper School Events listed in this issue of the Navigator. A complete, searchable school calendar is always available at www.chadwickschool.org — just click the "calendar" link in the upper left corner of every page.