In Denmark, as well as in other countries, the importance of parent involvement in children’s schooling is often emphasised as a necessity for school success. The responsibility to succeed in school is to a great extent imposed on children and parents by the school through daily school practice and communication between school and family. In many ways children in 6/7 grade and their families’ have been adjusted to school practices and communication between school and family. However, for some families school attendance has become a daily struggle and a painful experience. These families are often labelled as insufficient school adapted families by the school and are categorised as families who have failed to become good and responsible school families. Based on empirical data from ethnographic fieldwork among a group of 6/7 graders from a public school in Copenhagen this presentation analyses children and their families navigation in the field of ‘problem family’ categories when they cope with school in their everyday life. Furthermore, this presentation reveals how children and their parents accept or try to change the categories imposed on them by the school and shows how the school do not always recognise the families’ problems and hard work.