Help for parents
When your child is struggling
Worried your kid is behind, hates reading, or melts down over homework? You are not alone, and most of it is more fixable than it feels. Practical, judgment-free guides to the most common things parents of K-6 kids run into.
What to do when your child is behind in math
First, breathe: being behind in math is common, specific, and fixable. Math is a ladder, so a child who is behind almost...
What to do when your child is behind in reading
Reading is the highest-stakes skill to get right early, and the good news is that being behind is usually traceable to o...
When your kid hates reading
A kid who 'hates reading' almost never hates stories. They hate the feeling of reading being hard, slow, or a chore that...
When multiplication facts will not stick
If your child can work out 7 x 8 but cannot just recall it, that is a fluency problem, not an understanding problem, and...
When homework is a daily battle
Daily homework fights are usually not about defiance; they are about something underneath: the work is too hard, too lon...
When your child has math anxiety
Math anxiety is real, it is common, and it makes kids perform worse than they actually are because the worry itself eats...
How to help a struggling reader at home
Helping a struggling reader at home comes down to three things done consistently: figure out where the breakdown is, pra...
When your child is bored because they are ahead
A capable child who is bored is a real problem, not a good one: under-challenged kids disengage, stop building work habi...
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