Help!: School Starts in September

Margaret E. Kidd is a member of Toronto’s Child & Family Services
Review Board.

This highly recommended book takes a highly practical approach to the
role parents can play in their children’s education. The steps a
parent can take to enhance the teacher’s job are carefully delineated.
Parents are advised against overstepping the boundaries. “You stand by
your child but do not step in to solve the trouble.” When children are
allowed to work through a situation, and find that they are capable of
solving it, their self-confidence soars.

This book also addresses such issues and topics as helping the child
who must repeat a grade; learning disabilities, including attention
deficit disorder; the myths and problems associated with the gifted
child; and improving communication in the school-home-community
partnership.