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Particularly in the hothouse environment of NY education, parents often struggle to find ways to support their children's academic success. These tips from our professional tutors aim to help parents optimize their students' encounters with school work. These aren't tips about short-term gains but about progressive parenting strategies that encourages good long-term learning habits and study skills.
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Over the many years we've spent working with students and parents in New York City, among the most rewarding services we provide is our Bar and Bat Mitzvah planning help. The months leading up to the rite and the celebration can be hectic, chock full of time commitments, educational challenges, and logistical worries. We're proud of the work we've done and especially so of the feedback, like the letter below, we've received.
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Part of the art of learning is learning how you learn. That might sounds circular but it isn't. At Partners with Parents, one of the main things we try to do with the New York families we work with is help students figure out and learn how to implement the habits and strategies that work best for them. 
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There are countless factors that play into educational success. Students from Brooklyn to Manhattan and across the whole of New York City often face the challenge of sleep deprivation. We see the costs in our work as afterschool and evening tutors. As part of our ongoing series on parenting advice, we consider the pressures and best responses to the problem of too many commitments and too little time (hint: it's about priorities).
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As NYC parents ourselves, as well as professional educators, we think we can bring useful perspective to bear on some of the challenges of raising children in the city. Part of our educational philosophy is that as parents and educators we are really never off the clock; for good or bad, we're always modeling the behavior and ways of thinking that our children and students will internalize. This gets all the harder when, as we discuss here, we're talking about and reacting to the kinds of things we normally want to shield our children from, like death.
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