Spreading Their Wings
Students need to express their autonomy and spread their wings when they get to school. This does not mean that they've stopped needing you — of course they do! What it may mean, though, is that your student needs a chance to:

• make his own mistakes
• decide how to confront challenges
• communicate with others when there's a problem
• choose how to spend her time
• take responsibility for his actions
• struggle a bit
• learn from experience

Be there to talk things through when your student needs that and to offer support. The actual "doing," though, is primarily up to her. This independence is one of the main ways that she will learn, grow and develop into a strong adult.