DHS Parental Involvement

          DeWitt High School has a parental involvement shelf located in the media center that is full of helpful materials to better help you as a parent understand the changing needs of your child. Feel free to visit the media center and check out all that we have to offer.

Donna Padgett - Parent Involvement Facilitator

DeWitt High School

•  Self-Discipline – Using portfolios to help students develop self-awareness manage emotions and build relationships.
• The Trouble with Boys- A surprising report card on our sons, their problems at school, and what parents and educators must do.
• Respect – a girl’s guide to getting respect and dealing when your line is crossed.
• The Single Mother’s Book – A practical guide to managing your children, career, home, finances, and everything else.
• High School’s not Forever – A student’s survival guide to the maze that is the high-school experience.
• Sugar and Spice and No Longer Nice – How we can stop girls’ violence.
• Parenting 911 – How to safeguard and rescue your 10 to 15 year old from substance abuse, depression, sexual encounters, violence, failure in school, danger on the Internet, and other risky situations.
• The Roller-Coaster Years – Raising your child through the maddening yet magical middle school years.
• Too Stressed to Think? – A teen guide to staying sane when life makes you crazy.
• I Read It, But I Don’t Get It – Comprehension Strategies for adolescent readers.
• Is My Child OK? – When behavior is a problem, when it’s not, and when to seek help.
• Keys to Parenting Your Anxious Child – Guidance for parents who must cope with the many details related to raising children in today’s unusually demanding environment.
• What’s Right for Me? – What every teen should know about teasing, prejudice, date violence, teen sex, bullies, sexual con artists, jealousy, and envy.
• Who’s in the Mirror? – How teens cope with dating dilemmas, parent conflict, peer pressure, media influence and more.
• A Good Friend, How to Make one, How to Be One.  – Help on what you can do to build more and better friendships.
• To Be a Boy, To Be a Reader – Engaging teen and preteen boys in active literacy.
• We Want To Be Known – Learning from adolescent girls.
• The Connected Father – Understanding your unique role and responsibilities during your child’s adolescence.
• Talking To Teens – Getting it right before it gets rocky with your 8 to 12 year old.
• Generation MySpace – Helping your teen survive online adolescence.
• Your Ten to Fourteen Year Old – Form peer pressure to sibling rivalry to sexual awareness – everything you need to know about it.
• Between Parent and Child – Bestselling classics that revolutionized parent – child communication.
• Scream Free Parenting – The revolutionary approach to raising your kids by keeping your cool
• Between Two Worlds – The inner lives of children of divorce.
• Parent’s Homework Dictionary- Empowering parents with knowledge to help their children succeed.
• Children with Asthma – A manual for parents on raising a child with asthma.
• The Last Lecture – An inspirational book by Randy Pausch.
• Out of Control – How to handle anger, yours and everyone else’s.
• Bouncing Back – Dealing with the stuff life throws at you.
• I Did It Without Thinking – True stories about impulsive decisions that changed lives.
• Your Space – Dealing with friends and peers.
• Facing Competition – Can you play by the rules and stay in the game?
• Totally Tolerant – Spotting and stopping prejudice.
• Sisters and Brothers – The ultimate guide to understanding your siblings and yourself.
• Surviving Divorce – Teens talk about what hurts and what helps.
• Smart Money – How to manage your cash.
• True Confessions – Real stories about drinking and drugs.
• The Skin You’re In – Staying healthy inside and out.
• Beating Depression – Teens find light at the end of the tunnel.

Booklets

• Career Choices and Educational Options – Shows you how to make wise career and educational choices.
• How to Get the Most out of High School – Ten things you need to do to have a great high school experience.
• Looking Ahead to College – Explains why you should go to college and it tells you what college is like.
• How to Get Good Grades in College – Helpful advice and practical tips that will show you how to succeed in college.
• How to Get Money for College – Provides up-to-date financial aid information. It will show you how to make college affordable.
• An Instruction Booklet for College Bound Students – Discusses and explains what you need to know and do to be ready for college.
• High School Parent Guidebook – Shows parents how to help their children succeed in high school.
• How to Get Good Grades – Helpful advice and practical tips that will help you succeed in school.
• An Instruction Booklet for the Parents of College Bound Students – Shows parents how to help their children plan and prepare for college.