Elizabeth Hartley-Brewer - Talking to Tweens: Getting It Right Before It Gets Rocky with Your 8- to 12-Year-Old

Abuse: bullying physical

sexual verbal

Academics vs. friendships,

pressure and school

attendance stepfamilies

and See also Tests

Achievement acknowledging,

praise and

Activities: camping cooking,

eating fairs

games gardening

outdoor physical

play risk-taking and

sports

survival projects theme

parks trading talents and,

walking

Adventure: going outdoors and,

risk-taking and

Advertising: exploitation of

sexuality food

commercials vs. parental

authority. See also

Commercialism; Marketing

Aggression juvenile crime

and See also Bullying

Alcohol celebrations and

acetaminophen and

Anger, arson and

Anorexia nervosa

Anxiety being home

alone sex and

Apologizing

Appreciation, achievement and

Arguments: friendship and

parental fighting

sibling rivalry table manners

and See also Fighting;

Pestering

Arson: the forbidden and

reasons for

Authority: caregivers and

parents and

punishment and

Autonomy vs. boundaries,

the forbidden and

friendships and identity

and personal space and,

play and pocket

money and resilience and,

self-management,

See also Independence;Responsibility

Bedrooms: homework and locks

and media and

privacy and sharing

Behavior: vs. being

consideration to others

criminal demanding,

discipline and

dishonest

disruptive principle

guidelines rude,

sexual

table manners tantrums,

withdrawn. See

also Bullying; Crime

Belonging, sense of

Bereavement pets

Birthdays

Boredom eating and

Boundaries: vs. autonomy

discipline and vs. risk

taking, setting. See

also Limits; Rules

Boys: friendships and

gender and illegal drug

use and juvenile crime,

parental break-up and,

in the past vs. now play

and playing with fire,

power struggle and

praise and promoting self-esteem,

puberty and rudeness and

study and See also

Gender

Brain development: drugs and

mental disorders

expectations and neural

activity and puberty

Bullying

eating and school

attendance and signs of

problems

Calories, activity and

Camping, night walks and

Candles, safety and

Caregivers

Celebrations: alcohol and

birthdays

Celebrities, pocket money and

Change caregivers and

confidence and death of

family member death of

pet healthier diet

hormones and parental

break-up

parental relationships and stress

principal guidelines,

vs. routines school,

friendships and school

and

stress and See also

Development; Puberty

Cheating, dealing with

Childline

Childrens Express

Choice, freedom of: food and

friendships and

managing play and

secondary school and

Chores: bedroom tidiness

household jobs laundry,

pocket money and

project management

Cigarettes

Clothing: allowance money and,

fads and underwear.

See also Fashion

Commercialism exploitation

of sexuality vs.

parental power. See also

Advertising; Marketing

Communication: being home alone

and bereavement,

the bored child and,

chatting

child/teacher clash

discipline and divorce

and emotional health

and encouraging

children to talk

encouraging empathy

encouraging friendships

encouraging openness

encouraging self-discipline

fire safety harmful

substances and helping

with homework

keeping children at home,

managing eating

disorders new school

preparation parental

break-up parental

fighting and parental selfcare

and vs. peer

pressure vs. ploys to

gain what is wanted

praise principle

guidelines relationships

and responding to failure,

responding to rudeness,

responding to

shoplifting responding to

success risk-taking vs.

safety saying no, schools, changing

school, contact with

school, tests and school

and sex education vs. sexual

predators street safety,

supporting a child with

few friends table

manners with teachers.

See also Discussion

Competition, self-referenced

Computers bedrooms

and vs. real life

Confidence: vs. change vs.

fads parental breakdown

and school and

Conflict avoiding

child/teacher clash

minimizing preventing

Contraception

Contradiction, tween status of

Conversation. See Communication;

Discussion

Cooking

Courtesy: consideration on the

street consideration to

friends manners and,

politeness table

manners

Creativity, play and

Crime (juvenile)

arson responding to

offending child

shoplifting

Dangers: abuse

Dangers (continued)

alcohol being home

alone candles

cigarettes drugs, illegal,

eating disorders fire,

harmful substances,

inactivity

overeating overeating,

avoiding

acetaminophen principal

guidelines risk-taking

and self-defense

sexual.

See also Safety

Death pets

Deceit, dealing with

Decision-making: autonomy and,

eating and

Delinquency arson,

responding to offending

child shoplifting.

See also Harmfulsubstances

Depression

Development: brain,

cognitive skills and

discipline confidence

emotional

expectations and of

healthy habits and

knowledge of of moral

awareness physical play and

principal guidelines sex

education and stepfamilies

and thinking, ten-year

olds. See also Learning;

Puberty

Diet avoiding mealtime