Although schools are one primary source for your children's education, parents play a role in supporting their children by providing encouragement, material supply support and basic survival needs.
Here are several ways in which parents can help:
- Make sure that your children to school each day, well-rested, fed and with a positive outlook.
- Show interest in your children's schooling. Ask specific questions about what happens at school each day and how your children feel about it.
- Be positive. Avoid letting any of your past negative school experiences keep you from supporting and encouraging your child's learning. Let them know how much you care about education by continuing your own learning both informally and formally, to impress its importance upon them.
- Set up a consistent, quiet, comfortable study area with good lighting. Provide appropriate school supplies that your children need. This can be almost anyplace in your home; you don't need a special room.
- Set a family "quiet time" where you and your children can work together on homework, reading, letter writing and playing games.
- Allow your children to study in their personal space and manner. For example, some children work best when they're lying on the floor with background music playing.
- Make homework a daily routine. Help your children develop good homework habits.
