Homework time is the time to build lifelong study habits. The importance that homework is given at the home sets the stage for your child’s studying success for the rest of his life. Keys to homework success are:

Schools are sending homework home with younger and younger kids. The assignment may be a quick worksheet, but take it seriously! Don’t wait until your child is schlepping home the pile of books it takes to complete 2 hours worth of nightly assignments it now takes to complete fourth grade, set up a serious homework spot with the proper supplies to give that worksheet your first grader trots home with the credence it deserves. A little attention to homework now, before your child grows a teenage vocabulary, is well worth the time. Some great new products include the Crayola Total Tools “tool kit”, featuring homework-oriented supplies such as big erasable yellow highlighters.

Make sure you make your child's homework space is a kid friendly, safe, and inviting environment where they are able to do their best work. Set up a homework center --a place of your child's own, with their school supples at their finger tips and where he or she feels comfortable to work every day.

Color coding and filing are skills to master at an early age. Color-coding helps your child easily find things but also teaches her to categorize which is an important test taking skill. Filing past homework assignments and current assignment materials teaches your child to be organized, anticipate supplies that may be needed for current projects, and gives you and your child resources to review if you have a question that involves a prior skill or how his teacher may expect work to be completed.

Mead™ has you covered with organizational tools that make keeping up with homework and important papers a snap!

Reduce homework time by reducing the time you spend searching for supplies. Also, remember to use supplies for their intended purpose. Crayola™ really has their act together with the Crayola™ Total Tools

product because they know your child will be tempted to write with colored pencils (mostly because they won’t be able to find a pencil), so Crayola™ put a regular pencil on the other side of all of their colored pencils – saves space, easy to organize and easy to find!

Check out our favorite supplies , which no home should be without.

Either you can’t find your way out of the car or you and your teen have seen enough of each other for one day – either way your child needs a mobile homework center . Just because your child can’t be at home working on her desk doesn’t mean that she can’t get her homework done in an organized way.

Notebooks and bags take on a greater importance because they make organization and storing the proper supplies possible. Whether your child has a laptop or just a lot of books, check out these great bags!

Maddie Powers Laptop Bags bags are targeted to the younger and the more fashion conscious crowd and are available nationwide.

If you desire function over fashion, then check out either the TK Backpack for its padded laptop compartment and extra organizational pockets for all your child's school supplies. Or APC's Power Ready Slim Notebook Backpack for the eletronically inclined kid who craves power wherever he may roam.

Recent surveys of t’weens and teens show that they are very interested in being able to do homework wherever they want. We get that, but we fight it because they leave their stuff all over the house, lose things, aren’t sitting up and using good light, so we have come up with two homework centers for the older set …a mobile homework center, for when they are on the go, and a homework center for their favorite studying spot when they are at home.