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9 Ways to Help Your Child Do Better in School

Helping your child do better in school doesn’t require a lot of complicated plans or fancy teaching tools.  It starts with encouraging your children to read, and reading to them, and then doing these 9 simple things.

1. Monitor Homework

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2. Make Attending School a Priority

No missing school to just hang out at home with mom or take a break.  You can’t learn if you’re not in the classroom

3. Reward Academic Efforts

Celebrate all aspects of school to elevate it to the highest level of importance in your home.  Praise good grades and good efforts.

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4. Talk Up the Idea of Going to College

Treat it like a given that your child will go onto college after high school.  If you don’t think your child is college material, be prepared to offer other plans for post-high school: military service, tech school, apprenticeships.

5. Discuss Books, Films, TV Programs and Current Events

This type of conversation engages you with your child and broadens their world.

6. Discuss How Well Children are Doing at School

Make it a point to talk about your children’s schoolwork and school activities with them.

7. Talk About Your Day And Your Work

This further brings your child into your world and strengthens the bond you share through conversation.  If you work outside the home, it will give your child a vision for future opportunities.

8. Eat Meals Together as a Family

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9.Spend Time Just Talking

This is all about just focusing on your children to talk. 

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