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How Parents Can Spend Their Summer Vacation: Supporting Their Child's Counseling Goal

5/29/2014

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    Ahhh, thirteen and a half days until summer vacation.  Not that I'm counting or anything!  

This week I was composing e-mails to a couple of parents who'd asked me for some suggestions about how to work with their kids over the summer, and it occurred to me that a letter to all my kiddos' parents with some pointers might be a really useful thing to send home. 

Now I must note here that I've been working as a school counselor since 1999, and this is the first time that this admittedly brilliant idea has ever occurred to me.  I may be old, but I'm also slow on the uptake. 

Anyway, I wrote the letter, which is general enough to send home with all the students on my caseload yet I hope still helpful.  Here's the link to a PDF of the letter.  As always, help yourself!


                                            Your friend, 
                                            Captain Obvious

2 Comments
Nancy Dunne
10/4/2017 07:48:05 pm

You are amazing! Thank you for sharing your materials.
Question, are you still working? It looks like several things have the dates as 2014.

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Corie McRae
11/22/2021 12:19:34 pm

Hi I am a fellow elementary counsellor in Canada.
I'd love access to your drive if you don't mind :)
Corie

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