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Each SH Parent Resource Center article is written by an experienced educator and family therapist and provides research-informed guidance grounded in practical classroom experience and a family-systems perspective. The resources are designed to help families better understand school challenges, learning habits, behavior, communication, and emotional development while providing realistic strategies that can be used at home and in partnership with schools.
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Learning at Home & Study Skills
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When Reading Homework Takes Far Too Long
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Topic
When reading homework routinely takes much longer than expected, the useful question is not simply how to make the child work faster. First identify where the time is going. Is the child slowly sounding out many words?
Research Basis
Supported by guidance and research from Institute of Education Sciences, What Works Clearinghouse and American Academy of Pediatrics.
Included Activity
Ten-Minute Reading-Time Pattern Check. Use this page during one typical reading assignment. The goal is to identify where the extra time is going.
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Helping Your Child Get Organized Without Doing Everything for Them
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Topic
Organization is not a single personality trait. It is a set of skills: noticing what needs to be done, planning steps, keeping materials in predictable places, remembering deadlines, and checking whether work is actually finished and turned in. When adults repeatedly pack the backpack, locate every missing paper, and manage every deadline, the immediate crisis may disappear while the child gets less practice doing the work of organization.
Research Basis
Supported by guidance and research from Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University and American Academy of Pediatrics.
Included Activity
Ten-Minute Organization Transfer Check. Use this page to move one organization task from adult management toward child independence.
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Homework Battles: How to Reduce Daily Conflict
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Topic
Homework conflict often becomes a repeated family pattern: the parent reminds, the child resists, the parent increases pressure, and everyone enters the next evening expecting another fight. The first goal is to interrupt the pattern, not win the argument. Start by identifying what happens immediately before the conflict.
Research Basis
Supported by guidance and research from Institute of Education Sciences, What Works Clearinghouse and American Academy of Pediatrics, HealthyChildren.org.
Included Activity
Ten-Minute Homework Conflict Reset. Use this page before the next homework period to replace repeated arguments with one clear routine and a small amount of child choice.
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When Your Child Gives Up Too Quickly
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Topic
A child who gives up quickly may be avoiding frustration, protecting against failure, unsure how to begin, or facing a task that is genuinely beyond current skill. Before labeling the child as unmotivated, look at what happens at the moment of quitting. Is the work unclear?
Research Basis
Supported by guidance and research from American Psychological Association, Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University, and Institute of Education Sciences, What Works Clearinghouse.
Included Activity
Ten-Minute Try-Again Plan. Use this page when your child is ready to quit. The goal is one reasonable next attempt using a strategy the child can learn to choose independently.
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When Your Child Keeps Putting Homework Off: Breaking the Procrastination Cycle
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Topic
Homework procrastination can look like defiance, but often the more useful question is what is making it hard to begin. A child may be unsure what to do first, overwhelmed by a large assignment, distracted by competing activities, tired, or accustomed to needing repeated adult prompting. Start by making the first step visible and small.
Research Basis
Supported by guidance and research from American Academy of Pediatrics and Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University.
Included Activity
Ten-Minute Start-the-Work Plan. Use this page when homework keeps getting delayed. The goal is to make starting smaller and more independent.
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The Brighter You! Jumbo Activity Book
SH-K12 maintains a working relationship with Bilingual Learning Zone (BLZ) and highlights selected educational resources that complement our support for families.
Designed for ages 8–12, The Brighter You! combines stories, drawing, word play, riddles, and reflection activities that encourage confidence, character, creativity, self-awareness, positive choices, and parent-child connection through play.
Ages 8–12254 PagesStories • Drawing • Word Play • Riddles
