How to Help Your Child with Homework

The Complete Guide to Encouraging Good Study Habits and Ending the Homework Wars

When parents help their children with homework, the children do better in school.

This guide, written by a teacher, has helped countless parents avoid homework battles and promote school success. 

Cover the basics: building solid study skills in reading, spelling, writing, math, science, social studies, and foreign languages.

This book is packed with proven techniques, step-by-step strategies, and expert advice you can start using today.  You'll learn how to:

• promote responsibility and indepedence

• set up a homework schedule and a home study center

• use technology wisely

• help your child prepare for standardized tests

• communicate effectively with your child's teachers

208 illustrated pages, softcover, 7 1/4" x 9", for parents of children ages 6–13, $16.95

What Kids Need to Succeed

Proven, Practical Ways to Raise Good Kids

With over 220,000 copies in print, What Kids Need to Succeed is a proven best-seller.

Communities across the nation have embraced its quick-read, common-sense suggestions for helping kids lead healthy, productive, positive lives and stay out of trouble. This edition identifies 40 Developmental Assets™ essential to promoting success and preventing at-risk behaviors.

It describes new assets including caring neighborhoods, community service, integrity, cultural competence, and peaceful conflict resolution, then gives specific suggestions for building all 40 assets at home, at school, in the neighborhood, and in the faith community.

With over 700 ideas to try, What Kids Need to Succeed makes anyone an asset-builder and a positive force in young people's lives.

• Recommended by the National Association of Elementary School Principals

• Parent Council® Selection

256 pages, softcover, 4 1/8" x 6 7/8",, $7.95

What Young Children Need to Succeed

Working Together to Build Assets from Birth to Age 11

Based on groundbreaking research, this new book helps adults create a firm foundation for children from day one.

The focus is on Developmental Assets™—family support, a caring neighborhood, positive values, social skills, and more—that help children start out right and grow up healthy, well-adjusted, and strong. You’ll find hundreds of practical, concrete ways to build 40 assets in four different age groups: birth to 12 months, 1 to 2 years, 3 to 5 years, and 6 to 11 years.
 

The authors have also included unique tips for nine specific groups: parents, educators, child-care providers, health-care professionals, congregational leaders, employers, librarians, community leaders, and children themselves. Inspiring true stories show how individuals, organizations, and communities across the United States are building assets for children; resources point you toward more information.

Comprehensive, friendly, and easy to use, this book makes anyone an asset builder and a positive influence in children’s lives.

• Parent Council® Selection

• Parent's Guide Award

320 pages, illustrated, softcover, 5 1/4" x 8", parents, teachers, and all caring adults, birth to age 11, $12.95

The School-Savvy Parent

365 Insider Tips to Help You Help Your Child

Who knows the most about how to prepare your child for a happy, safe, successful school year? Teachers! Straight from the source, here are hundreds of positive, practical tips all parents can use to become active, informed supporters of their children’s education.

Whether you’re sending your child to school for the first time—or you want your child to have a positive school experience anytime—this book is for you. The tips are clear, concise, and quick; jump in anywhere to learn something useful.

You’ll find back-to-school tips, communication tips, tips to make school easier for everyone, health and safety tips, socialization tips, enrichment tips, tips on volunteering, and much more.

Together the authors have more than 37 years of teaching experience. All three are parents, too. So you can follow their advice with confidence. Keep this book close at hand and consult it often; instead of thinking, “If only someone had told me!” you’ll rejoice, “Now I know!”

• Parent Council® Selection

• National Parenting Publications Award

208 pages, softcover, 5" x 8", parents of children grades Pre K-8, $13.95

believes these books are useful aids for both parents and teachers. 

We will be happy to provide discount pricing for schools or parent groups that want to purchase bulk quantities.