<i>No amount of training or methods is going to change that simple but important fact. Involved parents means involved kids which means they will learn.</i><p>As a parent of two school-aged children, I couldn&#x27;t agree more.<p>At the same time, as a <i>single</i> parent, I have to say that it&#x27;s hard to ignore the effect that ubiquitous divorce and single-parenting is having on children&#x27;s schooling.<p>In a single day I have to drag my kids out of bed, make them breakfast, make them lunch, get them to school (all the while they&#x27;re complaining and dawdling), get to work myself, work a full 8 hour day, get to the daycare and pick up my kids, get home, and make dinner for us. And then do everything else that needs my attention, like bills. And then hound my kids to do their homework, help them with it, and then cajole them to do extra studying in math or writing.<p>It&#x27;s exhausting and demoralizing having to do this all on your own. And I make a lot more money than is the average where I live, so I can only imagine what it must be like doing all of this with money pressures.