8-Year-Old Parenting Montana Tools

By: Center for Health and Safety Culture
  • Summary

  • As a parent or someone in a parenting role, you can choose to be purposeful and deliberate in ways you engage with your eight-year-old that build a healthy relationship while developing their social and emotional skills. Although your eight-year-old is growing more and more independent, they still look to you just as much as ever to navigate life. Now is the right time to support your child in growing confidence, respect, and their ability to make healthy choices. This podcast shares a parenting process and tools from ParentingMontana.org that will empower you to do simple things right now that support your child’s healthy development. Practicing the skills you learn in this podcast throughout your daily routines with your child will allow you to strengthen communication, build your relationship, and develop social and emotional skills. Parents and those in a parenting role have access to a process and tools to meet each stage of their child’s life through this podcast from ParentingMontana.org. The Montana Department of Health and Human Services partnered with the Center for Health and Safety Culture at Montana State University to enhance healthy mental, emotional, and behavioral development through the tools available to you in this podcast. Though originally created for parents and those in a parenting role in Montana, parents everywhere can relate and apply the tools and resources. The tools in this podcast will grow your parenting confidence as you support your child using a five-step process: Gain Input, Teach, Practice, Support, and Recognize. You will be prepared to handle specific parenting topics while building a secure relationship with your child and promoting healthy development as your child matures. Becoming familiar and confident with the process and tools available through ParentingMontana.org will lead to your child's future success as you will be able to use the same process to meet parenting issues throughout their life in a positive way. A loving relationship and solid communication skills help parents and those in a parenting role work through challenges with their children. Invest in yourself as a parent and build the relationship with your child that creates a foundation to meet each stage of their life with excitement! The specific tools available for parenting your eight-year-old include: Anger, Back Talk, Bullying, Chores, Confidence, Conflict, Discipline, Friends, Homework, Listening, Lying, Tantrums, Mixed Messages About Alcohol, Reading, Routines, Sharing, and Stress. Listen now and feel prepared to support your child’s success!
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Episodes
  • Empathy for Your 8-Year-Old
    Apr 4 2023
    27 mins
  • Mixed Messages About Marijuana for Your 8-Year-Old
    Sep 29 2021

    As a Montana parent, what you model sends a message to your 8-year-old about marijuana; avoid sending mixed messages about marijuana.

    Now is the right time for parents and those in a parenting role to gain confidence using a process that creates an environment for strengthening your relationship with your child and growing your skills. Parenting is not easy, and every parent wants to be successful. ParentingMontana.org and this podcast will prepare you on your journey as a parent with a five-step process: Gain Input, Teach, Practice, Support, and Recognize. This process allows you to address specific parenting issues while building a strong relationship with your child and promoting healthy growth throughout their lives. Becoming familiar with the five-step process will grow your skills as a parent now and allow you to use the same steps to face future challenges in healthy, positive ways.

    In step one, parents and those in a parenting role create a purposeful opportunity to Gain Input when engaging with their child. In this initial step, you are working to truly hear, understand, and value what your child has to say. Gaining input helps to correct any assumptions about behavior, grows social and emotional skills, builds confidence, and conveys respect. Connecting while gaining input creates a sense of ownership and understanding, which sets the tone for step two, Teach. To teach is to demonstrate what you would like to see your child be able to do and equip them with knowledge and skills. Through teaching, children learn how to interact with the world and what is expected of them. Step three, Practice, is a chance for you to allow your child to try a new skill knowing it is okay to struggle and try again. It is an opportunity to improve behavior, grow habits, build social and emotional skills, support a growth mindset, and receive feedback constructively. Step four, Support, involves coaching, providing feedback, reteaching, monitoring, and following through by applying logical consequences and reflecting. Support grows cause and effect thinking and reinforces the ability to be successful while building social and emotional skills for children and parents and those in a parenting role. Step five, Recognize, creates an opportunity to intentionally acknowledge efforts and successes thereby nurturing motivation for continued growth. Recognizing your child’s efforts encourages self-confidence and self-esteem while building a positive parent-child relationship!

    With practice, this parenting process becomes natural and allows parents and those in a parenting role to navigate each stage of their child’s life as different needs arise. Listen to learn how to apply the five-step process to your parenting needs. Visit ParentingMontana.org for more information about the process, tools, and many other resources to help you raise your child with the skills they need to be successful now and in the future.

    Helpful Links

    https://parentingmontana.org/

    https://parentingmontana.org/parenting-process-for-your-childs-success/

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    20 mins
  • Responsibility for Your 8-Year-Old
    Sep 29 2021

    Responsibility gives a child (age 8) the skills of independency, self-sufficiency, and social awareness, which is an important lesson from Montana parents.

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    19 mins

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