parents are the most important thing to any child is ability to do well in school, so making sure you are reading to you children, especially when they are young, even before they get to school they start being used to reading,and they know their alphabet ,they know the basics so even when they get to kindergarten, they are already a leg up i think it is important to make sure that kids are doing their homework and that they are not just tuning on the tv all day or playing video games