More involvement in your kids education doesn't help them

Similarly, students whose parents frequently meet with teachers and principals don’t seem to improve faster than academically comparable peers whose parents are less present at school. Other essentially useless parenting interventions: observing a kid’s class; helping a teenager choose high-school courses; and, especially, disciplinary measures such as punishing kids for getting bad grades or instituting strict rules about when and how homework gets done.

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Don’t Help Your Kids With Their Homework – Dana Goldstein – The Atlantic
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  1. What if they ask you for help? I asked my father sometimes

  2. This is a meta-analysis and is very generalized. I'm not sure how much this is worth for anyone in a specific situation.

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