• Send your children to school each day, rested, well-fed and with a positive outlook.
• Take an active interest in your children's schooling. Ask them specific questions about what happened at school and how they feel about it.
• Try not to let any of your own negative experiences keep you from supporting and encouraging your children's learning. Let them know how much you care about education by continuing your own learning both informally and formally, to impress its importance upon them.
• If possible, set up a quiet, comfortable study area with good lighting. This can be almost anyplace in your home; you don't need a special room.
• Set a family "quiet time" where you and your children can work together on homework, reading, letter writing and playing games.
• Help, guide and correct their assignments, but never do the homework for them.
• Make homework a daily activity and help your children develop good homework habits.