Even if you aren't actually called on to offer much real help, the mere fact of help being available, IME, can let your child tackle things that would seem insurmountable without it.
True! DD has been having trouble getting the hang of summarizing what she's read, and was hugely successful this morning while we were working on it together. I said that maybe now she'd be able to do it at school, and she replied that she had only been able to be successful because she was doing it with me, and that she still felt unable to do it with her teacher.
