Product reviews for Parents First

Helping your children succeed and be happy at school is not easy when you have bad memories of school yourself. But negative situations can be turned around, and this is the aim of a book called Parents First published by Crown House Publishing.

Authors Gary Burnett and Kay Jarvis, who have both worked with and for children for many years, explain in no-nonsense language how parents can help their kids to get the best out of school and the best out of themselves. Their advice offers parents a deeper understanding of how they can be more confident themselves and so support their children more fully, no matter what their own school experiences were.

They then discuss how to cope with day-to-day difficulties like timely completion of homework, the pressure of tests, and building positive relationships with others - things that often prove too much for children without practical and effective support at home.