Parents will be reluctant to interfere in their kids' education; if I had taught my kids to do arithmetic the way I was taught it, they would have become confus

Parents will be reluctant to interfere in their kids' education; if I had taught my kids to do arithmetic the way I was taught it, they would have become confused, because their schools were using techniques that on the surface looked different. And the jargon was different too. Perhaps not so much with reading. But with reading, parents don't really need to get into all the pedagogy; just reading to and with your kids will help a lot.