Working parents have limited time to spend with their children. This book shows parents how to interact with their children during the brief times they spend together to help develop important non-academic skills which are crucial to success in the classroom. Skills such as self-confidence, persistence, and responsibility are keys to success in school. Each chapter concludes with a summarizing list of how these skills relate directly to success in the classroom.
Parents are shown how to furnish their home in ways that will enhance and improve the learning that occurs in the classroom. They can contribute to their child's education even when they can't be with them.
Parents are taught how to handle homework so the child takes responsibility for the completion of their work. Included is a special chapter with simple tips for parents who must help their children with schoolwork. These two chapters can help eliminate the majority of school hassles encountered between parents and their children.
In a special chapter, parents are shown how to recognize and handle small problems before they become serious and serious problems if they should occur.
Parents will not be intimidated by this book. They need no expertise of any kind to do the things which are advocated. Put bluntly, they do not need to be a teacher or know anything about teaching or curriculum to make an enormous contribution to their child's schooling.
Parents don't have to read the entire book to get started. Each chapter is independent of the others, so they can choose any chapter to read and begin putting the practical advice to use.
Simple, effective ideas any "time-starved" parent can use to: make your child eager to accept school challenges, improve your child's test scores and grades, get your child to do homework with minimum hassles, help your child improve academic skills even when you can't be there and have a profound effect on non-academic skills critical to successful learning.
