School Starts at Home (School Savvy Kids Series): Simple Ways to Make Learning Fun Book

This book was ok...most of it are things that a good parent should already know and be doing, I feel. To me, the most helpful parts were about study aids and homework. It is a cheerful little book, I will give it that. And while I really agree with all of it and have tried to implement most of these techniques as a mom, I believe it is unrealistic in some ways...Fuller does not say what to do if your kids won't cheerfully go along with whatever project you have lovingly set up for them, or how to handle a husband who thinks the idea of a family game night or educational "field trip" is a hopeless bore and thus suggests a Netflix movie night or a trip to the arcade instead of the museum, kids squealing with delight. Sigh. Yes, school starts at home, I agree 100%. It is easier to do this stuff when your kids are little and pre-tween angst and when you are either alone or with like-minded adult caregivers. But the book does give my ideas validation and cheers me on in my sometimes discouraging efforts to keep my kids on track with wholesome activities that aid their educations and buffer out the vast expanse of distractions and yucky stuff. So for that it is good, but honestly, this book is so fluffy and basic that I doubt the type of parent who didn't know this information would be the type to go looking for a book like this, ya know? Nothing special here.