10-Year-Old Parenting Tools

Ten-year-olds are becoming more independent and are often learning to manage emotions, friendships, and new responsibilities at school. These years can bring challenges, but with your guidance, they can learn vital skills to handle their feelings and build confidence. Children between the ages of five and ten are experiencing lots of changes as they grow, like learning new things in school, making...

As a parent or someone in a parenting role, your influence is vital in your child’s success. There are intentional ways to grow a healthy parent-child relationship while instilling confidence in your child to persist toward their goals and succeed in all areas of life. Everyone faces challenges, yet mistakes and failures are necessary for your ten-year-old’s learning and development. With your gui...

As a parent or someone in a parenting role, you play a vital role in your child’s success. There are intentional ways to grow a healthy parent-child relationship, and helping your ten-year-old develop their sharing, collaboration, turn-taking, and healthy friendship skills is a great opportunity.   Children ages five to ten are in the process of learning about themselves, their strengths...

As a parent or someone in a parenting role, you play an essential role in your child’s success. There are intentional ways to grow a healthy parent-child relationship, and setting up a daily homework routine provides a terrific opportunity.   Five to ten-year-olds are in the process of establishing critical learning habits, including how they approach homework, that will extend throughou...

Trust is a vital foundation for healthy relationships. As a parent or someone in a parenting role, you play an important role in your ten-year-old’s success. There are intentional ways to grow a healthy parent-child relationship and learn how to promote trust in your child. Lying represents an important milestone in your child’s thinking as they learn that others have different beliefs and perspec...

As parents or those in a parenting role, you play a vital role in your child’s success. There are intentional ways to grow a healthy parent-child relationship, and helping your ten-year-old learn to deal with their tantrums provides a perfect opportunity.    Children ages five to ten are in the process of learning about their strong feelings. They do not understand the full-body tak...

Ten-year-olds must follow directions to get along at home and succeed at school. Whether they are completing chores, following safety instructions, completing assignments, or showing their knowledge on tests, they will need to be able to follow directions. Though telling your child to do something may seem simple enough, the process of a child listening and engaging in several steps given in an in...

As a parent or someone in a parenting role, you play an essential role in your child’s success. There are intentional ways to grow a healthy parent-child relationship, and building reading skills is a great way to do it.  Reading is essential for your child’s success in school. Reading also plays a critical role in your child’s ●      social and emotional develop...

Why Transform Disrespect? 10-year-olds seek independence and will naturally test limits and break rules. When they feel powerless and angry, they can lash out in ways that show disrespect for others. Though this is a normal part of their development and necessary for their learning, it can anger or worry a caring parent or someone in a parenting role. You can transform these moments into vital opp...

Why Back Talk? Arguing in family life is typical and expected. “Back talk” can be defined as “argumentative replies.”  1  Children can respond in anger, hurt, frustration, hurtful tones, or with hurtful words. Back talk also represents a power imbalance children are trying to rectify. To regain some power, children lash out with hurtful words. Power, after all, is a basic human need. Bui...

Why Anger? Research confirms that when young children learn to manage their feelings, their executive functions are simultaneously strengthened. 1  They can better use self-control, problem-solve, and focus their attention. There are intentional ways to grow a healthy parent-child relationship. Growing your child’s skills to manage anger provides a perfect opportunity.  Tip:  These...

Why Examine Technology Use? Becoming intentional about your child’s daily technology use can influence how they develop a healthy relationship with technology and its role in their life. Looking for ways to experience and learn together about how to use devices wisely contributes to your child’s development.  Step 1: Get Input- Get Your Child Thinking by Getting Their Input  Writing down...

Why Repairing Harm? 10-year-olds are working on understanding and applying rules in various situations. They are seeking independence and will naturally test limits and break rules. When they do, they require guidance on how to repair harm caused to a relationship or item. This is a normal part of their development and necessary for their learning. Research confirms that children are in the proces...

Why Listening? Your child’s success depends upon their ability to listen and understand what you and others are communicating. There are intentional ways to grow a healthy parent-child relationship while building essential listening skills in your child.   Tip:  These steps are done best when you and your child are not tired or in a rush.   Tip:  Intentional communication...

Why Chores? Chores allow your child to contribute to maintaining and caring for your family’s household. Daily chores allow your child to learn and practice valuable skills like timeliness, work ethic, and responsibility.  Tip: These steps are done best when you and your child are not tired or in a rush.    Tip: Intentional communication and a healthy parenting relationship support...

Experiencing stress is part of life for adults and children. Stress is the physical or mental response to an external cause, such as being yelled at by a frustrated sibling or forgetting to bring an important paper to school. Feelings of stress are natural mechanisms for human survival and success. These feelings are the body’s way of sending a warning when there is a threat and pointing...

As a parent or those in a parenting role, you play a valuable role in your child’s life and success. There are intentional ways to grow a healthy parent-child relationship, and growing your child’s skills to manage conflict provides a worthwhile opportunity.

As a parent or someone in a parenting role, you play a valuable role in your child’s growth and success. There are intentional ways to nurture a healthy parent-child relationship, and daily routines provide an ideal opportunity.

Ten-year-olds understand what it means to act responsibly. They are:  ● working to understand rules and apply them in multiple settings.  ● working to grow their independence.  ● progressively taking care of their bodies (eating right, exercising).  ● learning to grow healthy relationships (managing their feelings and impulses, empathizing and working through con...

As a parent or those in a parenting role, you play a paramount role in helping your child develop empathy. Empathy is the way that people relate to one another effectively. It’s the ability to perceive what others are feeling, comprehend that information, and respond in a compassionate manner. There are intentional ways to grow a healthy parent-child relationship while expanding your chi...

Now is the right time to become more attuned to the messages your child receives about cannabis, the impacts on your child, and how you can shape the messages you send in the future to encourage healthy choices. Peer pressure to try cannabis does not typically begin until ages 15-19. Yet, children receive messages and view modeling throughout their childhood that will have a significant impact on...

Now is the right time to become more perceptive to the messages your child is receiving about alcohol, the impacts, and how you can mold the messages you send going forward to support healthy decision-making. Peer pressure to drink alcohol does not usually start until the ages of 11-14. Yet, children receive messages and modeling throughout childhood that will have an impact on whether or not they...

As a parent or those in a parenting role, you play a paramount role in your child’s success. Helping your child to grow healthy friendships is imperative. Through relationships, your child develops a sense of belonging. They gain a better understanding of themselves through their daily interactions with you, their teachers, and their peers. 

Children make note of differences in the world constantly. Parents or those in a parenting role can assist children as they make sense of differences among people by talking to them about what they notice in their world.

Children ages 5-10 are developing an understanding of rules and applying them in various situations and settings. They are striving for independence and will naturally test limits and break rules. This is a healthy part of their development and necessary for learning and growth.