Extraordinary parents
Subtitle: choosing your child's future : a year by year guide from cradle to college
By: Lynn Fielding
Publisher: New Foundation Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Kennewick, WA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780966687538
Subjects: Parenting; College student orientation; Vocational guidance; Parent participation; Educational accountability; Education
Other titles: Choosing your child's future :
Description: This book profiles how academic skills are set early in a child's education. The book identifies early learning tips and provides parents with additional course and career/vocational guidance to use to guide through a child's educational continuum -- kindergarten, primary school, middle school, high school, college/university.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part One:; title: From cradle to kindergarten.; title: Your child and the race ;; title: From cradle to college ;; title: READY! for kindergarten ;; title: Three rules and four limitations ;; title: Birth to one ;; title: Age one to two ;; title: Age two to three ;; title: Choosing a preschool : a checklist ;; title: Age three to four ;; title: Age four to five ;; title: Accelerated reading and math ;; title: Living with regret -- -- Part two:; title: From kindergarten to college.; title: Entering kindergarten : where is my child? ;; title: Elementary school : annual growth, catch-up growth ;; title: Gifted and talented ;; title: Dark-blue targets for grades two to eight ;; title: Middle school : annual growth, catch-up growth ;; title: Sharing the journey ;; title: Middle school college work book for college ;; title: Financing postsecondary education ;; title: High school : annual growth, catch-up growth ;; title: Choosing high school or less ;; title: Choosing some college ;; title: Getting through your four-year university ;; title: Extraordinary parenting maxims.