The Parent Institute
- To boost interest in reading, connect with authors
- Give your child time to think
- Stay in touch with your child's teachers all year long
- Help your child think about the sources of online information
- Make stress relief a part of your family's routine
- A chore chart makes responsibility clear
- Suggest fun things for your child to graph
- Help your child feel like a writer
- Take sides to improve thinking skills
- New experiences build reading skills
- Make your holiday gathering an occasion for learning
- Practice math and science in the laundry room
- Are you an 'askable' adult?
- Reinforce precautions that help keep kids safe at schoo
- Have a ton of rhyming fun
- Decide on consequences before the rule is broken
- Sometimes, saying 'no' gives your child a chance to grow
- The benefits of reading aloud don't stop as kids grow
- Simple strategies at home support success at school
- Notice and praise what your child does right
- Build your child's powers of mental math
- Stand near your child when giving directions
- Reevaluate rules to ensure a good fit
- Help your child see beyond a learning disorder
- Save history for the future in a time capsule
- Review schoolwork to reinforce learning
- Well-rested kids do better in school
- Help your child avoid pitfalls that make problems worse
- Ease Anxiety to Help Your Child Do Better on Tests
- Give Your Child Appropriate Words to Express Anger
- Preserve Special Family Memories
- Avoid Treating a Challenge Like It's Just a Phase
- Develop Math Fact Mastery in Fun Ways
- To Encourage Writing, Write Together
- Practice tests help kids prepare for the real thing
- Respectful manners are important at home and school
- Add acts of kindness to your child's to-do list
- Make concentrating on schoolwork easier for your child
- To motivate your child, praise effort, not intelligence
- Help your child map the world on a pumpkin globe
- Give spelling a high-tech twist
- To Avoid Power Struggles, Give Your Child Choices