SUGGESTIONS FOR BUILDING ASSETS

Asset # 6- Parent Involvement in Schooling

 (Parents involve themselves at home and at school in helping their children succeed.)

To Build Asset #6 Parents and Extended Family Can . . .

* Attend parent-teacher conferences.

* Help children do homework by correcting, answering questions, practice spelling words together — but don't do the work for them.

* Participate in school activities.

* Ask your children questions about their day. Go beyond yes/no questions. Let them give you details about what they did and learned.

* Help your child get enough sleep and healthy food, and give them a positive send-off each morning.

* Make positive statements about the school and teachers. Be enthusiastic about school.

* Help provide child care for neighbors or friends when they need it to attend school events.

Simple Ways to Help Kids

Three things that parents and extended family can do:

1. Vote, with kids needs in mind.

2. Make them a good breakfast.

3. Expect their best, not perfection.

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29% of youth surveyed by Search Institute have this asset in their lives.*

*Based on Search Institute surveys of almost 100,000 6th to 12th grade youth throughout the United States

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What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child... George Bernard Shaw