How Parents Support (and Sometimes Sabotage) Students' Success Part III

As parents, we want to help our children succeed in school.

In my twenty-two years as a classroom teacher (twenty-one as a parent), I’ve seen parent strategies that pay big dividends.

I’ve also seen well-intentioned efforts that actually cost the kids.

Today is Part 3 of a series in which we explore one support strategy and one form of sabotage.

(Here are links to Part 1 and Part 2.)

Support #3: Help Your Child Develop Organizational and Planning Systems

One day, I came home from 4^th grade in tears.

I’d been assigned a “research report” on the Yokut Indians, and I had no clue how to do it.

My mother used this report as an opportunity to teach me some much-needed organizational and planning skills. 

Here’s what she did:

(To read this blog post in full, head on over to The M.O.M. Initiative!)