“Repeat after me, mommy,” our 12 year old daughter said after school one day with her shining eyes “That’s a fantastic job!”
“That’s a fantastic job!” I said, copying her enthusiasm.
“You worked hard! And I’m proud of you!”
“You worked hard! And I’m proud of you!”
“You’ll go far in life!”
“You’ll go far in life!”
“Okay. That’s good enough,” [...]
“A car is a car,” a new prospective parent announced during the assessment feedback portion of my assessment of his daughter’s math. “It takes you from point A to point B.”
“A beat up For will do if grocery shopping is all you need,” I countered. “I sure want at least a reliable Toyota if my [...]
Having a strong math foundation is the surest way to prevent math struggle. Just how do parents go about building that strong math foundation? The rule of thumb is subtract your child’s age from 21 and that’s close to the weekly # of hours a parent ought to use on building the math foundation at [...]