St. Joseph's Counselor's Corner

No more nagging!
Are you tired of repeating yourself to your children? Try this. Write your most frequent requests (“Put away your shoes,” “Turn down the music”) on paper slips, and store them in a cup. Next time your child leaves his shoes out, hand him a note instead of saying anything. It will capture his attention and keep him focused until the task is completed.

Watch for the blues
Children can suffer from depression too. One red flag is loss of interest in play. Other signs include being tearful and grouchy, changes in eating and sleeping, low energy and worrying about death or illness. If you notice these symptoms, talk to your pediatrician.

November/December Life-skills and Guidelines
Truthfulness Integrity Pride
Courage Personal Best Initiative
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at its testing point.”- C.S.Lewis
“Truth is the heart of morality.” –Thomas Henry Huxley

Child: Great news! My teacher says that we
have a test today come rain or shine.
Parent: What is so great about that?
Child: It’s SNOWING outside!
snowflake


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Ms. Daunhauer Lucas County Educational Service Center School Counselor St. Joseph Elementary School, Maumee November/ December 2008
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No more nagging! Are you tired of repeating yourself to your children? Try this. Write your most frequent requests (“Put away your shoes,” “Turn down the music”) on paper slips, and store them in a cup. Next time your child leaves his shoes out, hand him a note instead of saying anything. It will capture his attention and keep him focused until the task is completed. Watch for the blues Children can suffer from depression too. One red flag is loss of interest in play. Other signs include being tearful and grouchy, changes in eating and sleeping, low energy and worrying about death or illness. If you notice these symptoms, talk to your pediatrician. November/December Life-skills and Guidelines Truthfulness Integrity Pride Courage Personal Best Initiative “Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at its testing point.”- C.S.Lewis “Truth is the heart of morality.” –Thomas Henry Huxley Child: Great news! My teacher says that we have a test today come rain or shine. Parent: What is so great about that? Child: It’s SNOWING outside!	Creative Studying Studying doesn’t always mean sitting at the table and working silently. Get creative! Find places to display whatever your child is studying each week. For example, have your child make a placemat of the states and their capitals or he can write multiplication facts along the edges and laminate it. Keep it on the kitchen table for him. While playing your favorite family board game, modify it. Change his Trivial Pursuit questions to what he is studying in science that week or when playing Balderdash, his subject can be definitions from his social studies notes. He may work even harder to learn the material to win the games! Build a home library by collecting books from stores, garage sales, school book clubs, and used book sales. Clear a shelf on the family bookcase for your child’s books, or get her a bookcase of her own. Encourage your child to branch out and read different kinds of books, including poetry, nonfiction, and mysteries. Make reading fun by finding new spots to read as a family or pair. Sit down at the dining room, or on pillows on the floor or go outside. Follow-up with activities for her to do that correspond with the books. For example, read Snowflake Bentley and then go outside and look at snow under a magnifying glass. Books on…Girls and Bullying Grades K-4 “The Recess Queen” by Alexis O’Neill “Girl Grudges” by Cheryl Dellasega “Bullying in the Girls’ World” by Diane Senn “Cliques, Phonies, and Other Baloney” by Trevor Romain Grades 5-8 “Cliques, Phonies, and Other Baloney” by Trevor Romain “Queen Bees and Wannabees” by Rosalind Wiseman “A Smart Girl’s Guide to Friendship Troubles” by Patti Criswell “Girl Games” by Shannon Black * Some information taken from Resources for Educators/ Aspen Publishing