School-Age Children - By Category

Behavior & Discipline

Your 5 to 10-year-old is getting bigger, and can better articulate frustrations, likes, and dislikes. Learn ways to work with your child to achieve good behavior and sow the seeds for self-discipline.

Family & Home

Chores, allowances, family traditions. Find strategies for a happy home life with your grade-schooler.

Fun & Celebrations

Have more fun! Great activities for your grade-schooler, party ideas for birthdays and other special occasions, strategies for holiday celebrations.

Health & Safety

From contagious illnesses to bedwetting to preventing accidents, essential information you need to keep your grade-schooler healthy, happy, and safe.

Nutrition

Feeding your grade-schooler -- strategies for picky eating, top power foods for kids, how to build healthy eating habits, and other food tips and tricks.

Physical & Emotional Growth -- Grade-schooler milestones

New fears and challenges, budding rebellion, curiosity about bodies —- the grade-schooler stage is an action-packed smorgasbord of physical and emotional development.

School & Learning

Reading, writing, arithmetic -- your grade-schooler's academic world is opening up. What you need to know for your child’s school success, including homework-helping tips and ideas for parent-teacher coordination.

Social Development

Beyond thank you and please -- strategies for raising a grade-schooler who has good manners, knows how to make friends, and is a good citizen of the world.

Sports & Fitness

Fun ways to get your grade-schooler moving, sports injury prevention and management, and other useful information to keep your kids fit and physically active.

Technology & Entertainment

Monitoring TV, video games, computers. Essential guidelines for weeding out undesirable content and keeping kids safe in our high-tech world.

Time for You

Time Out! All childcare and no play will make you a very stressed parent. How to spice up your love life, quick and easy stress relievers, and other tips and ideas to pamper and nurture moms and dads.