Professor Perrone suggests many simple ways you can begin a conversation with your child. Then he provides you with topics of discussion and the background information on the subjects you will be talking about, such as social studies, mathematics, and science.
This is intense information to keep my gifted 5th grader on the right track. The actual conversation tips are in the last half of the book, but the information leading up to that is just what I was looking for. This book lets you know where your 5th grader is or should be educationally and it shows and encourages you on how to be involved with his public education (Don't just sign and return his papers to school, really look at them). Our dinner table conversation is starting to flow...
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