The Parent Companion by Jonathan Edison

What is The Parent Companion about?

“The Parent Companion” is a super dictionary for parents. We put everything school and homework related, including the kitchen sink. English, language arts, math section, and biology section just to name a few.

We pride ourselves on having a thorough guide if you’re a parent, of what you may have forgotten in grade school. For example, what is a polynomial, right angle, or how to create a sentence. In addition, it comes with a bonus text language section with over 1,000 text acronyms that students use.

How has the feedback been from the parents?

Our customer base is largely school principals and or directors of education. When the school administration sees the book they think, “Oh my God, we need that for our parents!”. The feedback has been from people reviewing the book and then providing the book to the parents within their school districts and committees. Therefore, many of our sales are from school administration and parent organization meetings. We sell very few books from what we call “person to person”.

Pontiac schools purchased several thousand books and gave them out to parents, and then invited me to host a workshop lecture series for the parents. The feedback at these events from parents is more often how much information and subject matter they have forgotten.

Looking at some third-grade or even second-grade homework parents don’t understand what the material means. At this specific workshop, I taught the parents about what their learning styles are. Then after they know their learning style, they can work with their children based on their child’s learning style to help them with homework. Parents can also take this information and partner with their child’s teachers, to make sure their child is getting the best education they possibly can.

What part of the writing process did you find the most enjoyable with this book?

Finding a use for my thesis outside of my master’s program, which is about learning styles. It took six months to put my thesis together. Taking what I knew then and expanding on that knowledge to then teaching someone else and enlightening them with what I’ve learned, was the most fascinating part for me.