Your Partner In Helping Your Child Excel
The Let’s Make It Difficult For Our Children To Fail® program is dedicated to the thousands of parents I, Ruth E. Qualls, have personally helped, who refused to allow their children to get by with being just average. They did everything in their power to help make it difficult for their children to fail by assuring each pupil performed above average in school. You have each made me so proud!
Our program, which is compatible with almost any teaching method or reading workbook series, was born out of Mrs. Qualls' almost fifty years of experience helping parents to help their children. Our program can be used to teach almost anyone to read. Mrs. Qualls guarantees that her practical, easy-to-use teaching method will produce remarkable results when used regularly.
“Teaching your child to read is not complicated, nor confusing if you know what to teach and how to teach. I would love to show you how!”
— Ruth E. Qualls, Founder of Let’s Make It Difficult For Our Children To Fail!®
Meet Ruth Qualls, Founder
Ruth Qualls has received numerous awards for outstanding service to the Hampton Roads community. She has been recognized for her many contributions to the field of education. Ms. Qualls for 25 years, served as the Virginia Regional Director for the Bremner-Davis Educational Systems, and Owner/Director of an astoundingly successful parent-child workshop center. She is the Founder of Let's Make It Difficult For Our Children To Fail!® Organization
Mrs. Qualls is best known for her encouraging efforts to wipe out illiteracy.
For almost 25 years she hosted an informative radio talk show on several local stations. Ruth Qualls has appeared on several TV and radio talk shows, as well as having many newspaper and magazine articles written about her very successful easy-to-use teaching methods. She has helped thousands of parents develop above-average readers. Many of her students have skipped over kindergarten. Many others have been placed in gifted programs, and countless number of parents have earned their bragging rights by being able to share with others how their child made all A's.
Mrs. Qualls' son Damien entered kindergarten in Virginia Beach, VA public schools, and at age 5, he was tested reading above third-grade level words by the school reading specialist. At age six, he was observed by a diagnostic tester, Mrs. Lucy Herman from Old Dominion University, and was found to be reading above fifth-grade level words. Throughout her son's school career, he maintained many straight "A" report cards, despite having dealt with Cystic Fibrosis, a chronic and challenging health problem. By tenth grade, Damien had a grade point average of 4.05. He received a double-lung transplant his senior year, graduated with honors, and placed 12th out of a class of 372 students. At age seventeen, he was accepted at the College of William and Mary for early admissions. At age twenty, Damien unfortunately succumbed to his illness and passed away. This program still lives on in his honor.
Ruth Qualls is quick to advocate that education begins at home.
Our schools can only work with what parents send them. Children who begin school with little or no foundation for the school to build on are already, in Ms. Qualls' opinion, behind and at risk of failing.
Our Program
In Action.
These students were taught by their parents using our program.
Where The Journey To Today Began
My passion for helping parents began in September 1976 on what I describe as the most heart-wrenching day of my life. For me, it was also a wake-up call that forever changed my beliefs regarding the education of our children. As a military wife, I inquired of other parents, "What should I be teaching?". I was then told many old wives tales by these older friends, neighbors, and co-workers.
They said:
"You're not a teacher".
"You're not suppose to teach."
"You may confuse your child."
"Schools are suppose to teach ... let them do their job."
"You may turn your child off!"
The worst advice was:
1. "Let him enjoy his childhood."
2."He will learn when he starts school."
3. "You don't want to push!" You may turn your child off!"
This was bad advice.
A Message To Parents.
During kindergarten, first, and second grade, I never received an oral or written suggestion from a teacher regarding what the home (parent) should or needed to do. PTA meetings gave no advice. We discussed fundraising projects. My son's progress report and report cards never indicated any problems. At Parent / Teacher conferences, I heard what a sweet, polite, and well-mannered child my son was. I was given the impression everything was okay.
False Reports & No Help!
Because if I can help one parent avoid my errors or save even one child from having to experience the stigma of poor reading, my efforts will have paid off. It was 47 years ago that I stood on the doorsteps of a California public school feeling devastated and heartbroken. I remember thinking, as my eyes flooded with tears, "Dear God, I would not want any parent to have to endure this pain, embarrassment, hopelessness etc." I had been summoned to my son's school. The principal tactfully informed me that my son was reading below his third-grade level. She recommended that he be held back a grade.
Why Have I Shared This With You?
"I wouldn't wish this day on anyone!"
As I sat in the principal's office looking at her in disbelief, I was fighting hard to hold back my tears with questions racing through my head. I heard my name, "Mrs. Qualls!" The principal repeated her suggestion. I opened my mouth and said, "My child has a problem?!" "What can I do to help?" I had failed my child. I should have known. What was worst, the school seemed ill-equipped to assist me with my dilemma.
My son's teacher informed me that my precious child had graduated from the lowest reading group to the highest. It was because of my help (his first teacher), in his first school (the home), and also a reading program that I purchased to assist me. Phonics is so necessary and important! My son's deficiency resulted from being taught methods referred to as sight reading and whole language. He had no word attack skills, nor could he, if asked, sound out a word. Please don't believe it when others tell you that your child will get better or grow out his / her inability to read. The problem will only get worse. Too many parents are not cognizant of the benefits of teaching early preschool reading skills. Our schools have never and will never be able to do the job alone. Your home is your child's first and most important school.
30 Days Later…..
