Parental involvement, time or money? Well, the money can go to a mortgage on a house in a good school district or to private schools. In what observations I was able to make over the years as parent of any only child in private schools, there just wasn&#x27;t that much of the helicopter parent thing. I don&#x27;t think, once the kids were past the age of elementary school projects like &quot;build an Indian village&quot; or &quot;science projects&quot;, there was even that much direct involvement in the work. (I can say that apart from a bit of harassment with language drills in 7th and 8th grades, I had no involvement in the work in middle and high school.)<p>There is the effect on children of growing up in a household where there are books around, where the effects of education show in the topics and manner of discussions at the dinner table. That I don&#x27;t think you can get away from. It existed a hundred years ago, and will continue to.