The child has a lot of books at home

Children who have a lot of books at home study well. I would like to object: but how, if a child has many books, this does not always mean that he reads them! But, as statistics show, it doesn’t matter. Oddly enough, it is the physical presence of books in the house that positively affects the child's assessments. Explaining this oddity, Levitt again speaks not of children, but of parents. A large library is usually collected by educated, inquisitive people. Although the child does not yet read many books, the atmosphere inspires him to study and interest in knowledge. At the same time, hoping that forcing a child to read books can improve his school grades is not worth it. “The book is not, to a large extent, the cause of intelligence, but its consequence,” Levitt concludes.

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Now look at eight factors that, according to the results of the study, have no correlation with academic performance:

The child grew up in a complete family
Parents of a child recently moved to a more prestigious area
The mother of the child did not work after his birth and before entering kindergarten
The child attended the Head Start program (a preschool educational program for children from low-income families in the United States)
Parents regularly go to museums with their child
The child is regularly beaten
The child watches TV a lot of time
Parents of a child read aloud to him almost every day
Some of them are surprising - it would seem that everyone understands that sitting in front of the TV for a long time harms learning. In fact, the effect of the TV can be completely different - depending, for example, on the selected programs. It may well be that a child who watches educational programs all day will learn better than his peer, who spends his time playing soccer. But this is only an opinion, and if we talk about statistical data, then between the total time watching TV and the results of school tests, scientists did not find any correlation.
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With families in which parents beat children, not everything is as obvious as it seems. Beating a child is ignorance, you say. But before you consider parents who beat their children, unintelligent, it is worth remembering that the researchers received this information as a result of the survey. It turns out that these parents, in the process of talking with a stranger, admitted that they raise a hand on their child, although they could easily hide it. Levitt suggests that here it would be more accurate to see the correlation between honesty and good education than, on the contrary, between beating and ignorance.

If you carefully look at the two lists of factors, you can see what their fundamental difference is. The second list included factors that were somehow related to what the parents were doing or weren’t doing, and in the first one, what they were.

That is, the best you can do to make your child educated, well-read and successful is to be yourself

Surprisingly, the idea that the American economist leads us to sounds in the arguments of the German philosopher Rudolf Steiner, who laid the foundations of the Waldorf pedagogy popular in Russia and around the world: “All education is self-education, and we, teachers and educators, speak only the role of the environment of the self-educating child. “We must provide him with a reasonable and useful environment so that next to us the child educates himself in the way that fate destined for him.”
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All this does not mean at all that with a child you do not need to go to museums and read books to him. Of course, it is necessary, but maybe not in museums, but in the botanical garden, and to read books not out loud at night, but together in roles. It’s just that the universal set of actions that will help parents raise their child correctly does not exist. And the concept of "correctness" is very relative here.

Parents overestimate the power of books on parenting - if you believe the results of ECLS, then by and large everything really important for parenting developed before birth. Parents can only calm down, put aside books with examples and look at their own child - talk with him, spend time together, be sensitive and attentive. And then the understanding of what he needs for a happy childhood and good grades will come by itself. And if it so happens that you have to choose between a happy childhood and good grades, it will not hurt to remember that there is not necessarily an equal sign between school success and success in life.