How to cope when your child repeats the year at school

Katy Madureira, head of initial series of Baptist College Mineiro, in Belo Horizonte, explains that when the repetition occurs early, from 6 to 10 years, is vital to have a family orientation.

"Parents should emphasize a positive self-esteem in childrendespite the apparent failure. They should reinforce the feeling oflove and affection and should be willing to be with her ​​in this newstage, " he says. "When you're young you think that there is the endof the world, " recalls Lucas Silveira, 25, who repeated a grade of 5former first grade and is now advertising