“MyDayVu can take an insurmountable day to a child – and break it down into little
manage-able bits – and enable this same child to take control of his or her learning, and learning experience.”

Kids have a lot of things going on in their head – so they may not have the time to tell you what’s happening – in their life or at school. As importantly, your child may be on a different time-table when he or she wants to . . . really . . . talk about what’s really going on. So why not have a platform for your son or daughter to do that? So that when you have a conversation later at dinner or that evening, you can understand so much more?

Whether it’s a bully, or something that has happened with a teacher, or even friend troubles?

Sure, we all would like to talk about the family dinner conversation like we all can do it so perfectly, or during the car drive, or whenever we think families should (especially those who have no children or “perfect lives” schedules — THAT is ONE of the reasons why MyDayVu was created.

But not the only reason. Even parents or grandparents or caregivers who ask about the school day may not be asking the RIGHT questions. Or, allowing kids to ask the questions. Or, allow for a real conversation. the day in manageable bite-size pieces so that a child can evaluate and reflect.

“We are underestimating the power of the parent-child conversation.“

Then I started reading more and more of the major research about what the most successful kids had in common – such as a huge study by the Harvard Family Project and the OECD PISA study- and learned that they connected with their parents about their school day. They were more motivated, were higher achieving and had higher emotional well-being overall.

I read William Jeynes’ book, “Parental Involvement and Academic Success,” which also supported the premise that PARENTS and parental engagement are the critical factor not only for achievement but also “has a profound effect on student BEHAVIOR (Jeynes,2005b;2007b)” such as being less likely to be involved in drugs and other negative behavior. Hmm. . . .

“Studies show that even TEENS want to talk to parents MORE, not LESS.”

So, with this blog, we hope to share more findings, along with resources and solutions – and moral support(!) and to hear from you.

Do check out our main site over at MyDayVu. MyDayVu is a very cool service and tool (go mobile, too!) to help spark conversations with your kids and track patterns that are affecting their health and well-being. It’s really quick to do and very powerful. You get colorful info-graphics – kind of like personal paintings of your kids’ school experience – instantly.