The Story behind the Book: 10 Quick Homework Tip

 


We cannot tell the back story of 10 Quick Homework Tips without telling the story of is sister book, 365 Teacher Secrets for Parents. So, here is the link to that back story, which we shared last Sunday

Back Story of 10 Quick Homework Tips by Cindy McKinley Alder & Patti Trombly

[Please do read the back story for 365 Teacher Secrets for Parents to learn how Cindy and Patti met.]

A few years ago, after listening to the frustrations of parents trying to find time for everything as well as struggling to work with their kids at home more during the pandemic, Patti and I decided to create a “quick tip” book to help. It seemed homework issues were especially overwhelming and challenging for busy parents.  So, we worked together again and wrote a short book on  easy ways parents could help ease the frustrations of homework battles. 10 Quick Homework Tips was not as time-consuming, but just as fun for us to write.  It feels great to share so many decades of our practical, hands-on knowledge and to help struggling parents.  Nothing makes us happier than hearing a mom say she’d never thought to turn math facts into games and that her kids love to practice them now.  A dad recently told me that implementing our “Homework Agreement” idea took all the battles out of getting his son to do his homework after school.  He said he wished he would have known about this concept years ago.

 Working with Patti on these two books has been such a blessing.  How lucky I am to have such a great friend in so many ways. Is there another book in our future? Who knows?  But I’d sure be open to it!

~ Cindy McKinley Alder

[Publisher's note: There is a little more to the back story. When the pandemic reigned, we asked our authors to contribute to a series of small books about ways to cope with the pandemic. 10 Quick Homework Tips was the contribution offered by Cindy and Patti to help parents. They had apparently been working on such a book, anyway, and the timing was perfect. The great thing about this book -- the tips work at any time, not just during a lockdown.]

Kops-Fetherling International Book Awards/Gold Medal (Education) 

Book available at 25% discount with code FF25 at msipress.com/shop.

Read excerpts and other blog posts about Cindy, Patti, and their books HERE.


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