Quotes from Susan Newman

With a classmate is absent from school for an extended period of time, have your only child call to find out how he is feeling and send to get well card. Have your child offer to bring his assignment home to him or to call him each day after school to keep the homebound student up-to-date.

While onlies have no at-home experience fighting with other children, they have another skill that siblings may not have. Onlies learn to fight with their parents and consequently have excellent verbal skills.

The notion of sharing attention and time is the most difficult for young children… involve your child as much as possible and activities that do not center around him. When a classmate is absent from school for an extended period of time, have your only child call to find out how he is feeling and send a get well card. Have your child offer to bring his assignments home to him or to call him each day after school to keep the homebound student up to date.