The School Years Survival Guide for Parents

Practical help for the school challenges that follow children home.

When homework takes over the evening, a disappointing grade shakes your child’s confidence, or a conversation with school feels difficult, it helps to have a practical place to start.

The School Years Survival Guide for Parents offers clear, manageable ways to support children through the everyday challenges of elementary and middle school.  Star Learning Systems, brings together research-informed guidance, realistic fictional family examples, and practical suggestions you can adapt to your child.

Inside, you’ll find help with:

• Creating homework routines without taking over the work
• Organizing assignments and breaking large projects into smaller steps
• Supporting reading, writing, spelling, and math
• Responding constructively to mistakes and disappointing grades
• Preparing for parent-teacher conferences and helping children ask for help
• Setting screen-time boundaries and using AI learning tools thoughtfully
• Handling friendship difficulties, bullying concerns, and worries about school

Thirty focused chapters let you turn directly to the concern that matters today. Twenty full-page, write-in planning worksheets give you space to record decisions, share responsibilities, and review what helped.

The roomy 8.5 × 11-inch paperback is designed to be used, written in, and returned to as your family’s needs change.

Begin with the concern that matters most this week and choose a manageable step to try together.

Available free for our school families, call (708) 675-7640