Begin reading to your child as soon and often as possible.
Teachers agree that incorporating reading time with your children is a great way to push them to better themselves. Reading with your child gets their creative juices flowing, it gets their imagination sparked, and it creates a yearning to learn. Read at home but don’t just focus on reciting the words. Making reading to your child an active experience. Ask questions about the characters, their motivations, and their character arc. Have your child give their thoughts on the story. Don’t settle for any answer you get. Push your child, gently of course, toward forming their own thoughts and ideas regarding the characters in the story. Pretty soon your child will begin to take reading into their own hands and after that they’ll be a well educated member of society. If you need help with the analysis portion of the stories you can always take an online English course to brush up your skills.
Begin reading to your child as soon and often as possible
Look past the grading scale.
While bringing home straight A’s can be one way to measure a child’s intelligence, it is far from the only way. In fact, seeing that your child is putting in hard work can be more important than the grade that they receive on said assignment. A child can have straight A’s without fully understanding the coursework and this says more about the homework than the child’s skill level. So try to get into a habit of looking at how your child understands the concepts and information they are receiving before you look at their grades. This way you’ll see if they are good at the information or simply good at taking tests. Besides, not all kids are naturally good at every subject. Some people struggle with math or science while others excel.
Look past the grading scale