When you connect with your child every day, your child benefits for life. When he or she knows you care and are concerned about education, the following occurs:

• Achievement in school improves; students earn higher grades and test scores and enroll in higher-level programs
• Children want to go to school
• Courses are passed, credits earned and students are promoted to the next grade
• Self-confidence improves
• Children have better social skills and behavior at home and at school
• Students graduate from high school and go on to postsecondary education

Source: Southwest Educational Development Laboratory; (Henderson & Mapp, 2002)