Getting started with tutoring, whether you're a parent, a student or a fledgling tutor, can be a bewildering prospect. To help guide you past the pitfalls, we put our heads together and began writing an article which became this Practical Guide to Tutoring. Our aim with this guide is quite simply to take a fair and honest look across the industry and offer our humble perspective on the highlights and pitfalls, so that you might discover them, and avoid them, respectively. We hope you like it!