Parenting Your First Grader: A Guide to Making the Most of the "Look at Me!" Phase

Parenting Your First Grader

MAKE THE MOST OF EVERY PHASE IN YOUR CHILD'S LIFE

You have approximately 936 weeks from the time your child is born until he or she graduates from high school. It goes by fast, and kids change and grow quickly. It's as if they shift or move on just as you're starting to figure them out. It all makes the responsibility to shape a child's faith and character feel overwhelming.

Parenting Your First Grader is a concise and interactive guide that simplifies what you need to know about first graders in general and gives you a place to discover more about your first grader, so you can make the most of this phase.

Your house is inhabited by a stellar knock-knock-joke comedian, and you might be in one of the best phases of your child's life. THIS IS THE PHASE WHEN UNFILTERED WORDS MAKE YOU LAUGH, SCHOOL DROP-OFF MAKES YOU CRY, AND LIFE BECOMES A STAGE WHERE YOUR KID SHOUTS, "LOOK AT ME!"

Discover...

• what's changing about your kid over the next 52 weeks,
• the 6 things your kid needs most,
• and 4 conversations to have in this phase.

About the Phase Project

The Phase Project, including this guide, is a synthesis of personal experience, academic research, and gatherings of leaders and educational experts from across the child development spectrum. Designed in partnership with Parent Cue, this guide is one volume in an 18-part series to help you parent your child through every year.