HMS Counseling Center
Mindfulness
Turning failures into lessons
Grades
There’s no doubt that grades are important! Because they are so important, many parents make the mistake of displaying a lot of anger and frustration when their kids get poor ones. When this happens, kids spend more energy thinking about their parents’ anger and frustration than thinking about how their grades will affect their lives. Listed below are some quick tips for responding to poor grades:
- Spend most of your energy commenting on the good grades. The key is to help your child feel so good about what they do well that they will be willing to work harder at what they don’t do well.
- Display sadness over the bad grades. Experiment with saying, “This is so sad. I’m sure glad that I didn’t get that grade. The good news is that we are going to love you regardless of how well or poorly you do in school.”
- Ask questions about the bad grades like “What are your thoughts about the grade?” or “Do you have any plan to deal with the subject?” or “What sort of help can we give you on this?”
- If consequences for poor grades aren’t motivating your child to do their work, stop providing them. When this occurs, it means that there are other issues that need to be dealt with first. These include helping your child develop a better self-concept, teaching them responsibility through chores, helping them with learning problems or different learning styles, etc.
- Remember that good character is more important for life-long success than good grades.
You can find more techniques in the Teen Package.
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Current 6th and 7th Grade Course Selection Night
Tuesday, Mar 6, 2018, 06:00 PM
Highland Middle School, East Bailey Boswell Road, Fort Worth, TX, United States
Attention Current 7th Graders: National Junior Honor Society Information
Requirements:
•Application date at end of 5th Six Weeks
•93 average in Core Classes ELA, Lit, Math, History and Science each of five six weeks.
•The semester test and grade are not averaged into that average
•Citizenship grades count
•Community service hours– At least 5 different places
•All community service hours must be recorded in your child's Career Cruising Account
Parenting Hotline
Current 6th and 7th Graders Cheer & Mascot Try-outs
Save the Date-Cheer and Mascot Try Outs
Attention: Current 6th and 7th Graders
Mandatory Parent Meeting April 5th @ 7:45am or 5:30pm students who want to try out must have a parent attend one of the parent meetings in order to be eligible for tryouts. Any student trying out must attend all four days of the try out clinic April 16-19 3:30-4:30. Only students excused from the clinic will give prior notice of a UIL event or doctors note. Students absent from school on April 16th-20th will not be eligible to try out. Try outs will be Friday April 20th immediately after school from 3:30-??? Students will call their parents at the end of try outs.
Friday, Apr 20, 2018, 03:30 PM
Highland Middle School, East Bailey Boswell Road, Fort Worth, TX, United States
Are your children taking advantage of all their opportunities?
https://www.ted.com/talks/terry_moore_how_to_tie_your_shoes#t-159672
I showed this video to my advocacy group last week. This might be a great video for you to use at home to spark some conversation between you and your teen. In this video, he talks about small advantages and how they can help you in life. Are you taking advantage of your advantages? Here are some advantages here at Highland:
- Math Lab Monday through Thursday 7:45 am advantages is that you can get your homework checked over before you go to class and make an A.
- homework club (teachers present for tutoring)
- tutorials ( 7:45am-8: 25 am daily)
- skyward...checking your grades and looking over teacher notes daily??
- using class time productively
- being involved in UIL, Sports, band, choir, theatre,...listen to announcements so you don't miss out.
- are parents/siblings willing and your not asking
- Are you using your phone for school? For example, There are vocabulary apps to help you study? Are you waiting for the teacher to assign it to you?
- Are you using time with your friends in a healthy way? study groups? encouraging each other?