Ramsey's Tips for Parents: How to Help Your Child Stay Out of Trouble

According to veteran educator and author Robert Ramsey, the following tips are his recommendations for helping parents to keep their children out of trouble.

• Talk together as a family daily.

• Talk openly about the values you live by.

• Show your child how mature people solve disputes without violence.

• Monitor your child's friendships.
• Peer Pressure is good if your child has the right peers

• Network with other parents.
• Work together to keep track of what your kids are doing when you are not around

• Spend time in your child's school by serving as a chaperon or volunteer.

• Celebrate successes (great and small) at school.

• Talk to your child's teachers often.

• Watch your own behavior.
  
• Kids react more to how you live your life than how you tell them to live theirs

• Model Patience and sticking to a task.

• Show interest in your child's school life.

• Help your child get involved in after school activities
  

• Help develop your child's interests and strengths.

Source: How to Say the Right Thing Every Time: Communicating Well With Students, Staff, Parents and the Public, 2nd Edition.

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