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Help Your Child to Succeed: The Essential Guide for Parents.
 | | This book by Bill Lucas and Alistair Smith is accessible, practical and packed with great ideas that will make helping children a pleasure and not a chore.
Follow the link to try a questionnaire for parents which comes from "Help Your Child to Suceed".
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Learning can make better parents
Getting involved in adult learning can lessen the stresses of bringing up children and help people be better parents, according to a study from the Centre for Research on the Wider Benefits of Learning at the Institute of Education. The report also found that adult learning could improve relationships with partners and parents.
The research team carried out 45 in-depth case studies of learners aged 16 upwards in three UK locations to discover how learning affects well-being and social and family relationships. Interviewees reported that their courses made them more confident in their ability as parents, more able to communicate with their children and more understanding and patient. They acquired skills that helped them in a practical way and became more open to other people’s approaches to parenting. They became more able to see things from a child’s point of view and to understand the child as a member of a peer group.
The Benefits of Learning: The impact of education on health, family life and social capital is published by RoutledgeFalmer, priced £21.99.
