The Key To Smarter Kids: Talking To Them The Right Way

Studies show that parents who check homework, attend school meetings, discuss school activities, and read to their children have a more powerful influence on their child’s achievement than anything that schools can do.  Conversations within the home are important in developing learning readiness as well.  Those conversations should include two-way, adult-child conversations and discussions about things like numbers, counting, and spatial concepts (big/small, left/right, etc).