After observing the lack of parental involvement in children's educational development among clients, an instructor determined to learn if offering incentives to parents to work with their child/children would increase parental involvement. Working in an adult basic education/General Educational Development parental assistance program with services given through home visits, the instructor chose nine families to complete a checklist targeting their involvement with their children at home and at school. The instructor also collected field notes of observations made during home visits concerning parents' attitudes toward their child's/children's education. Results of this checklist and field note observations were used to determine the baseline for each family. The instructor offered an incentive to parents if a total of seven selected parent-child activities were completed on subsequent visits. The instructor explained to these families that they would be eligible to attend a group picnic (the incentive) upon the successful completion of these activity-assignments. The results of offering an incentive to parents to be a part of this research appeared to be positive from the very beginning of the project. Six of the seven families completed the seven activities. Appended are the 3 forms used in the study. (Author/YLB)