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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What if they ask you for help? I asked my father sometimes
This is a meta-analysis and is very generalized. I'm not sure how much this is worth for anyone in a specific situation.