Regardless of income, social status, or ethnicity, parents everywhere are concerned about their children’s academic performance. We all want our children to reach their academic potential. We all seek the peace of mind that comes with knowing our children are learning and mastering all the skills necessary for academic competence.
In Boost Your Child’s Academic Success, author Dr. Marshena McCoy-Williams offers a series of recommendations for empowering children’s learning capabilities. The founder of Smart Kids TLC, a tutoring and learning center in Greensboro, North Carolina, that provides academic services to public, private, and homeschooled children and their parents, she gives strategies parents can apply to improve their children’s academic performance. Designed for individuals from diverse ethnicities, cultures, socioeconomic strata, and family structures, the ideas can be mixed, matched, and modified to fit specific circumstances.
Many of the recommendations and strategies are based on research in education, pedagogy, medicine, nutrition, and cognition. Some are traditional, and others are nontraditional. Each directly or indirectly helps develop intellectual and/or academic abilities. Boost Your Child’s Academic Success provides a range of options from which parents can select to create a holistic and focused plan of action to improve their children’s academic experience and performance.
