Only you have the power to ensure that your child reaches their full learning potential.

Do you agree with the grades on your child’s report cards?  Are they a surprise to you?  Are you tired of seeing low grades when you know that your child is intelligent?

Don’t despair, and don’t think that there is nothing you can do to change the situation.  YOU have the power to make a difference, YOU have the power to help your child reach his or her full learning potential.

Not only do you have the power, you are the only one who does.

During my teaching career  (35 years and counting…)  I have come to realize that, no matter how good teachers and school are, it is you, the parents who make the difference between a student who reaches his or her full learning potential and one who does not, one who underachieves and never becomes all that he or she is capable of becoming.

Don’t get me wrong, children need good teachers and good schools, but that is not enough.  They also need support from you, the kind of support that ensures they get the education they need and deserve.  Without your support your child will never reach his or her full learning potential.

There, I have said it, I have been skirting around this issue for months – trying to be nice, supportive and non judgmental, but there is no time left.  Children are suffering, they re not able to learn the way they need to learn, they are failing and losing their self confidence.

It is time to act. It is time to be brutally honest and tell you – the parents – that you must become involved in your child’s education, you must provide your child the support he or she needs to become the learner they are capable of becoming.

I know that many of you are trying to support your child’s education, but I fear that what you may be doing is giving your child ‘more school’ in the hope that this will make a difference.

But that is not how to do it.

If you give your child ‘more school’, if you hire a tutor, buy workbooks, enroll him in a special tutoring service, your child is actually missing out, you are preventing your child from getting the learning opportunities that only you can provide.  The learning opportunities that lead to success.

Stop giving your child ‘more school’.

Start giving your child the kind of learning opportunities that lead to success, the kind that only you can provide.

Then your child has a chance to become the learner he was made to be, to reach his learning potential and to succeed in school and in life.

YOU make the difference.  Do you know how?