Title: Improve Your Child's Confidence in School
Headings: Improve Your Child's Confidence in School
Improve Your Child's Confidence in School
Determine Your Child's Problem Areas in School
Give Your Child Confidence by Commenting on Specifics
Listening to Your Child
Take the Fear out of Parent Conferences
Helping Outside of School
Being Open Towards Your Child

Content: We all want to teach our children good manners and etiquette, such as being active listeners, but sometimes forget that our own behavior is their greatest teacher.) Take the Fear out of Parent Conferences
Parents can, often sub-consciously, put a lot of pressure on their children, and when parent conferences roll around it can be a scary time. When you come back from a parent conference, avoid the temptation to tell your children what they're doing wrong and instead focus on the positives. Telling your children about their weaknesses isn't necessarily constructive. Instead, consider a discussion with their teachers about how you could help your child improve upon those weaknesses. Create a plan and act on it. Make sure, however, that you don't make these discussions imply that your child both has a weakness and lacks the maturity to be involved in the discussions. If you wish to support your child in any problem areas, address these problems as something you and your child plan to tackle together. In this way, your child, instead of feeling the odd one out, will feel you have his back and are a team with him as he addresses his weaknesses. Helping Outside of School
Extra-curricular activities are rarely a bad thing, so give your child every encouragement (without pressuring him) to try new things.