Parental involvement, time or money? Well, the money can go to a mortgage on a house in a good school district or to private schools. In what observations I was

Parental involvement, time or money? Well, the money can go to a mortgage on a house in a good school district or to private schools. In what observations I was able to make over the years as parent of any only child in private schools, there just wasn't that much of the helicopter parent thing. I don't think, once the kids were past the age of elementary school projects like "build an Indian village" or "science projects", there was even that much direct involvement in the work. (I can say that apart from a bit of harassment with language drills in 7th and 8th grades, I had no involvement in the work in middle and high school.) There is the effect on children of growing up in a household where there are books around, where the effects of education show in the topics and manner of discussions at the dinner table. That I don't think you can get away from. It existed a hundred years ago, and will continue to.