This handbook provides advice to help parents, caregivers, and teachers arrive at personal answers to basic questions that affect children's achievement. The handbook is intended as a personal notebook in which are recorded reader responses to the home/school problems raised in the book "What Do We Say? What Do We Do?" The sections are: (1) "Confidence," detailing how to help children gain courage; (2)"Motivation," on how to help children keep interested in learning; (3) "Effort," addressing how to help children tackle hard jobs; (4) "Responsibility," on how to help children do what is right; (5) "Initiative," addressing how to help children accomplish work; (6) "Perseverance," on how to help children keep at something when success does not come immediately; (7) "Caring," detailing how to help children show love for family and friends; (8) "Teamwork," addressing how to help children work cooperatively; (9) "Common Sense," on how to help children say no; (10) "Problem Solving," outlining how to help children identify and solve a problem; (11) "Reading Together," providing checklists pertaining to parents reading aloud to children; and (12) "Keeping Track," providing a chart for recognizing and documenting a child's positive words and acts. (SD)