Making Homework Work at Home: Parent-Friendly Strategies for School Success

No one knows the trials and tribulations of homework more than parents do. All too often, despite everyone’s best intentions, homework time degenerates into a stressful, tension-driven struggle, or all out war. How can you be involved in your children’s homework in a positive way so that learning is fun and your relationship survives?

We wrote this book to help you do just that!!! Based on over twenty years of our collective experience as educators and psychologists, we have written this guide to insure that you will be more understanding, empowering, and effective with your children when they are doing their homework. What makes this book unique is that we provide you with tools to enhance your understanding of your child's learning style as well as specific strategies to enable your child to tackle homework assignments more easily. We have included many research-based strategies that will help your child to develop better organizational, reading, math, writing and test-taking skills.

All in all, we hope that this book will ease parents' worries, reduce homework conflicts and provide new strategies for kids to learn more effectively.