Brian Galvin Of Varsity Tutors On The 5 Things Parents Can Do To Help Their Children Thrive and Excel In School

(Gently) let them fail, and even create some opportunities for them to fail. One thing they don’t (and shouldn’t) tell you in elementary or middle school is that no one other than your parents will ever look at those grades. By high school your transcripts will start to matter for college, but beforehand the only thing that matters is what you learn, and by far facts are less important than skills and habits (that’s what made the show “Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?” such a hit: successful adults have forgotten a ton of facts from that era, but they maintained the skills and habits). So particularly for conscientious students, letting them learn from mistakes they made — waiting until the last minute to start a project, deciding not to read the book before a test — can teach…