We have to remember that part of adolescence is having a sense of invincibility. Teenagers don't sense their own vulnerability. In order to conteract their teenager's invincibility, parents need to share newspaper or TV accounts of teenage accidents and deaths with them, rather than avoiding the subject. All you have to do is channel surf and you're going to see something violent. This is an era where both parents are often working and kids have more unsupervised time after school.
Parents can monitor the amount of television watching and the quality of what kids watch.
A. A child needs to understand and learn the value of education. That doesn't mean just saying we value it, but showing it by talking to kids and reading to them. The love of reading can even start with babies. You can get them books with bright colors. In order for education to be valuable to the child and for school to be valuable, then it needs to be respected in the home.