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 Strategies to Encourage Your Child

Parental involvement and interest in a high quality education is critical for creating an environment that promotes student success, achievement and aspirations. You can have a significant impact on your child’s career and education development:

  • help your child develop a positive self-image
  • be actively involved in your child’s life
  • stress the importance of education
  • help your child learn good work attitudes and habits
  • support your child’s career goals and dreams
  • help your child get along with others
  • help your child gain skills that could be useful in work
There are many practical ways you can encourage your child’s success in school and career:
  • read and spend time with your child
  • provide a positive learning environment at home
  • provide a quiet and secure space for doing schoolwork
  • help your child choose challenging classes
  • start a college savings plan
  • reinforce to your child that college is possible
  • visit local college campuses with your child when possible
  • join the parent teacher association (PTA), volunteer at and attend school functions, and attend parent teacher conferences
  
 Facebook

If your young student is getting started with social networking, demonstrate how to use it for education - find upcoming events, pictures, and videos.
www.facebook.com/alaskadvantage
  
 Saving for College Minimize

No matter what financial assistance may be available in the future, you can take action now to make a difference.

Alaskans are fortunate to have a potential source for saving every year - investing part or all of a Permanent Fund Dividend in a savings account or college savings program is a great step towards helping your child achieve education and career goals.


If you start when your child is in 7th grade and put half of a PFD in an investment account, you can have almost $5,000 when your child is ready to start college. If you invest an entire dividend, you will have almost $10,000 to get your child on the road to success.

For more tips on saving smart for college, and information on Alaska's college savings plan that allows tax-advantaged savings, visit www.uacollegesavings.com.
  
 Resources

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