PoAC: Creating a culture of intelligence in your home

Many studies have pointed out over the years that the most important factor in a child's school success is found, not at school, but at home. If the parents value and facilitate education, the kids will get one - whether or not their schools are much good at it. While many schools have set out to buck this trend, and some have in fact succeeded in becoming a much more important factor in a good education than they had previously been, the trend remains something of a truism in education.

Which begs the question: what do good parents do, that facilitates the education of their child? It is my belief that parents who value education do a variety of key things to create a home culture where literacy, numeracy, and their backbone - the ability to think critically - are as essential to the atmosphere as oxygen. Here's a short list, divided loosely by age, but spanning the culture of the entire family.

( Family culture of learning, Part I )