I tried to help my son back track through his text book so that we could discover the principals that he was supposed to be applying together. I tried to look up online guides so that I could connect the dots and figure out what the examples were looking for. I really looked for any solution that I could find, but it just was not clicking.

I took chemistry when I was in high school, but it seemed that his work was written in a different language altogether. What could I do? I was really stumped. What was worse was that each day that went by that I could not help him was another day that I was failing my son. I needed a specialist for this problem.

Of course the idea of a tutor crossed my mind. We live in a rural area, so it was really difficult to find someone locally, and nobody really wanted to travel to us without charging us through the nose for mileage. The next logical step that I could think of was online tutoring. I had heard of it, and though I had my doubts, it was time to take the plunge. I asked some of my friends about it; however I did not get any satisfactory replies. Some even scared me more, saying that lots of people do fraud on the Internet and advised me to do proper research before hiring a tutor. Their concern seemed to be genuine and that made me even more apprehensive about it. However I couldn’t afford to risk my child’s future for my apprehensions.

I checked around online and found the TransWebTutors.com site. After reading about the thousand hour minimum experience that their online tutors had, twenty four hours availability, and the range of the subjects that they cover, I felt that they were worth a try. I asked my son to try out the live tutor for an hour and then tell me how he felt about it.

About an hour and a half later, my son came back to me and told me that he was really absorbing what he was covering with his tutor. He said that the live help from someone that knows the subject was just what he needed to help him understand where he was missing the mark. Though he was not yet completely at home with chemistry, he was much more confident in the assignments he had completed for class the next day.

When he came home from school, he did something he had not done since he was seven. He came into the kitchen with his chest out, pulled a magnet off of the freezer, and stuck his homework to it. I came over to see what all of the ruckus was about. He had gotten an 83 on his homework assignment. He asked me if he could get same tutor’s help again that night, and I told him that he could go on any night that he felt he needed to.

If there is one thing that is worth investing in, it’s your child’s education. Their future depends on the skills that they learn early on and pull from as adults. I am confident that I have done the best that I could for my son, and I have officially gotten my job back as the in-house problem solver.