Parents:
Your involvement in your child’s educational experiences at school is extremely important. Not only does it show that you are willing to help and do what it takes to help your child succeed, it also shows your child that you care enough to take the time to be involved in an important part of their daily life. Here are just a few reasons for why you should to be involved with how your child’s doing in school:
1. How and what they do in school can affect their behavior in other aspects of their life. A child’s success or failure (more specifically failure) in the classroom can affect a child’s physical and emotional behavior. If as a parent, you are unaware of slipping grades or lunch bullies, you may not understand why your child is behaving differently when they are at home.
2. Sometimes teachers are aware and catch things that parents might miss. Since teachers spend most of the day with children they might be able to offer some helpful insight into why a child is acting up when they come home, or why they don’t want to stay and eat lunch at school, or why they hate reading. Open lines of positive communication bet ween you and your child’s teacher will help you know what is happening at school.
3. Helping them at home is directly related to how well they do during the day. If your child brings home an assignment, but you have neglected to show interest in what they’re doing in school, will you be able to offer much help with that assignment, or will you even be asked for help in the first place? Quite often assignments that are sent home by teachers, are sent home with the understanding that and sometimes the expectation that parents will help the child work on the assignment.
4. It shows your child that you care about what they’re doing. It gives them a sense of responsibility to someone and tells them that someone cares whether they fail or succeed. This is so important to children today, as technology and society allows them to become more and more self-reliant. A good sense of responsibility to others helps all children become successful participants in the world around them.
