PEDIATRICS Vol. 88 No. 3 September 1991, pp. 518
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Reviews of Lay Literature in Child-Care: What Parents Are Reading

FRANCES PAGE GLASCOE PhD1, WILLIAM O. MOORE MD1, and ANNA BAUMGAERTEL MD1

1 Child Development Center, Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee

L. Canter, L. Hausner. Homework without Tears. New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1987; list price $7.95 (No. 30 on the 1990 bestseller list of books on child care from Ingram Book Co., distributor of trade books).

This text offers parents some solid advice about children and homework, including: establishing an appropriate study area, working with teachers, time management, task analysis, test preparation and independent completion of work. The authors wander onto shaky ground when they suggest that parents should not help children learn concepts and when they fail to mention that a child's need for assistance with homework may be indicative of significant trouble with school work and learning problems. Accordingly, parents are not directed toward psychoeducational evaluations, tutors or other resources. Further, they are not helped to acquire insight into their child's feelings about school, developmental readiness for various academic activities, self-concept, peer pressure, or the impact of different kinds of educational experiences (e.g., self-versus teacher-directed activities, private versus public schools, large versus small classes, etc.). Despite these weaknesses, the book contains many helpful suggestions and fills a void in the offerings on child-care by focusing specifically on homework issues.


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