Studies show that when parents are involved, students perform better in school. The difficulty moms and dads face is knowing where to draw the line between being supportive and actually doing their child’s work themselves. Lending a hand occasionally with projects and assignments is a great way to show kids that education is important; however, it’s equally important that they experience the highs and the lows of learning and discover that effort is required – without the assistance of parents.

My Process

School helps children become organized, independent thinkers, both responsible and capable of taking academic risks. Here are some great ways parents can help without getting too involved:

• Obtain a corpus of text data
• Tokenize! This is removing punctuation, making things lowercase, and then splitting your long strings into each individual word.
• Build the model. Be sure to use an LSTM layer, and the output layer is the size of the vocabulary. 
• Train the model! Keras recommends at least 20 epochs before things stop sounding like nonsense.

Big thank you to Susan Li for her amazing write up on this topic, I used her examples while performing this exploration. Here is a link to her article.

Communicate.

Have a dialogue with your kids about school every day. Ask specific questions: “How was math class?” or “What did you learn today?” Know your kids’ schedules and teachers’ names, and stay abreast of upcoming projects and assignments.

Help in a limited way. When it comes to homework, it’s okay to help, but don’t do the work for them. Create a homework-friendly atmosphere so it’s easy for kids to work without getting stressed, or losing focus or motivation.