Hey, Grandma! is a handbook for parents who wish to help a child to succeed as a scholar. It covers all age ranges, pre-school through secondary education, stresses the importance of incidental learning in the home in the early years, gives clear, concise directives to help a child to read with fluency and comprehension, lists the steps to use in learning to spell a word, contains the 100 addition and subtraction facts, multiplication and division examples to use as speed tests, the mastery of which is necessary for computation of higher mathematics (the "tools" with which to develop "thinking skills"), provides guidelines for homework management and teacher-pupil relationship. The suthor ascribes to the philosophy that "inside every normal child there is bright child, if only someone will open his/her mind."
Hey, Grandma! was named from an incident involving guidance of grandchildren, inspiring them to academic excellence.
