We are excited to publish out first Confident Parents and Caregivers Newsletter specifically designed for school communities. Help us support your families! Be sure you sign up for the free trial to receive our inaugural issue today and see if it might become an important support as you work on cultivating school-family partnerships.
Thanks to those who have written in with enthusiasm! We are excited too about the possibilities! Here’s our first question from a school community…
How will the mailing list be handled for the newsletter? We don’t share our parents’ email addresses.
You will never have to share your parents’ email addresses. When you subscribe, we’ll send you a sample welcome note that you can customize for your parents. In that note, they can choose whether they want to opt-in or not. If they want to recieve the newsletter, they’ll submit their email address to us directly (their choice). We will only charge for the subscription level that corresponds to the number of parents/caregivers who sign up.
Today, if you sign up, we’ll also send you a FREE GIFT for your parents and caregivers – a printable homework routine planning sheet that families can use to decide on how their family will set up their routine together.
Here’s a little taste of what’s coming today…
1. Welcome Letter from Jennifer Miller, MEd. – This letter offers the top seven simple tips for motivating children and teens to focus, work hard, and persist on their school work at home based on solid research.
2. Did You Know? Developmental Tips by Grade Level on Hard Work, Motivation and Persistence. Here’s our first grade example. They’ll be tips for each grade from preschool through high school!
In First Grade – Your child is now busy learning to read and it’s no small task! In fact, it’s monumental and may be giving your child stress as they feel pressured to learn. Be sure that, at this age, you take time to pick out favorite, high interest books for your child (local libraries are perfect for this!). Snuggle up together and take turns reading words or sentences. Have your child pick out words, phrases or sentences they are able to read. You can read the bulk of it but be sure and use your finger to guide your child to read along as with you. Whether stories create laughter, sorrow, or happy scares, find joy together in learning to read. This will go a long way in motivating your young child through the hard work of learning to read!
3. Supporting Learning at Home Tip of the Month – This section will focus on offering ways in which parents and caregivers can help set up the physical space, the emotional conditions and also their own support to create a conducive, focused environment for learning regardless of the type of home setting they have. This month, we focus on the routine of homework time. Here’s the start of the tip!
It’s important that you work with your children to establish a homework routine that a.) works for your family practically; b.) coordinates with taking care of their physical and emotional needs; and c.) maximizes their focus on getting the work accomplished. You likely already have fallen into a routine. But it’s easy for some bad habits to form for your student if you haven’t been intentional about that routine. This is an ideal time to consider how it’s going and see if there are ways to improve on it so that as you enter tough and challenging work assignments, you and your young learner are ready! Here are some things to examine: Sign up for more!
4. Focus on a Life Skill: Practicing Self-Management (sign up for more!)
5. Healthy Ways to Use Technology Tip of the Month (sign up for more!)
6. Making It Happen… Practical Tools to Use in Family Life (sign up for more!)
7. Final Reflection Question or Poll (sign up for more!)
8. Highlights of the November Issue
After twelve years of Confident Parents, Confident Kids, we have so many practical tips, strategies, and tools to share! So we are just getting started!
Hope you’ll join us! Sign up here to receive the free trial edition today!