Sacramento Head Start Alumni Association

Helping Your Child Additions

Nov 04, 2002

Now Available!
Helping Your Child Additions
The U.S. Department of Education just released two new titles of the popular Helping Your Child publication series. Helping Your Child through Early Adolescence focuses on how parents and families can greatly influence the growth and development of their children at what can be a challenging time?—from the years 10 through 14. Building on the latest research, the 88-page booklet offers tips on how to respond to physical, emotional and cognitive changes; how much independence to give; how to help them resist harmful peer pressure; and how to identify problems such as alcohol or drug use, eating disorders and depression.


Another new release, Helping Your Child Succeed in School, provides activities for ages 5 through 11 that parents can share with their children to help them master reading, understand the value of homework and develop other skills necessary to achieve. The booklet also includes tips on test taking.

English and Spanish versions of these titles may be ordered, while supplies last, through the Department's publication center at 1-877-4ED-PUBS, or downloaded from www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/hyc.html.