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Getting
School-Home Balance Just Right – School Family Media’s New Website, SchoolFamily.com, Helps Parents and Kids Overcome School Challenges
Without Stress
Wrentham, MA -- June 18, 2008 -- School
Family Media, Inc. today announced the launch of SchoolFamily.com, the
only website to focus exclusively on school-related issues for parents
of Kindergarten – 8th grade students, providing easy-to-access,
reliable content on how to help their children (and their families)
make the most of the school year. SchoolFamily.com focuses on helping
to alleviate much of the stress that parents feel when they want to
play a more proactive role in their children’s school experience, but
are not sure how to find the time or tools to do so – making school
success more feasible and fun.
In a day when most school media
focuses on the “Helicopter Parents” who are perhaps too involved or on
horror stories of parents completely dropping the ball,
SchoolFamily.com aims for the all-important middle, helping real
parents with practical solutions for getting the balance just right.
The
website offers simple, balanced solutions for busy parents and gives
them ways to be more involved in their child’s school-life that they
can adapt to their own school community, personal interests and
schedule. Sections such as “Involved Parent” and “Back2School” include
motivating first-hand accounts of parents successfully overcoming
school-related challenges such as connecting with other parents at
school or developing a balanced homework routine. The articles are
accompanied by appropriate practical tools and suggestions for
overcoming those hurdles.
“For busy parents, helping our kids
succeed in school and keeping our families on track at the same time is
harder than ever before,” said Tim Sullivan, father of 4, President of
School Family Media, Inc., and a contributing writer/editor for the
site. “SchoolFamily.com will be the resource real parents can count on
all year long for help in navigating these challenging waters.”
While
many publications and websites touch upon how to handle school-related
issues, only SchoolFamily.com provides 100% school-related content.
The website features expert insight and advice, downloadable tools and
even interactive quizzes that parents can use to improve communication
with their children, their children’s teachers and their schools for a
healthy, collaborative school-family relationship that yields benefits
both in and out of the classroom.
An interactive ‘Parent Q&A’
helps parents find positive reinforcement and answers to questions
like: “How can I get my child to open up about school?”, “How can my
kids avoid the Summer brain drain?” and “What does the teacher need to
know about my child?”
“School PTO and PTA leaders, who have relied
on our tools and resources for almost 10 years, are already aware of
our singular, powerful commitment to helping students and families
succeed in school,” said Mr. Sullivan. “As our resources and
connections have broadened, we’re thrilled to be able to offer even
more tools for parents - like SchoolFamily.com - that they can easily
apply to helping their children thrive in school.”
Please visit www.schoolfamily.com for more information.
ABOUT SCHOOL FAMILY MEDIA, INC.
Since
1999, School Family Media, Inc., through its PTO Today, Inc. property,
has been connecting with school parent leaders and school families at
every public and private K-8 school nationwide – more than 83,000+
schools - through its array of print, online and event school-family
programs. School Family Media is focused exclusively on helping
parents and schools help children succeed by promoting and enabling
practical and meaningful parent involvement at school. School Family
Media’s parent-focused, out-of-the-classroom programs, such as School
Family Nights, Back2School and now, SchoolFamily.com, offer school
families the widest possible range of opportunities and resources for
strengthening the connection between the parent, student and school
community. Learn more at www.schoolfamilymedia.com.
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