Parental Role In Child’s Learning Process

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Research shows that parental involvement in children’s learning is a key factor in improving children’s academic attainment and achievements, as well as their overall behavior and attendance.
The role of parents during a child’s earliest years is the single biggest influence on their development. Good quality home learning contributes more to children’s intellectual and social development than parental occupation, education or income.
Most children have two main educators in their lives – their parents and their teachers. Parents are the prime educators until the child attends an early years setting or starts school and they remain a major influence on their children’s learning throughout school and beyond. The school and parents both have crucial roles to play.
Children achieve more when schools and parents work together. Parents can help more effectively if they know what the school is trying to achieve and how they can help.
Parental behaviours which manifest parental involvement change across the age range. With younger children, direct help with school relevant skills is appropriate and ...
... foundational. With older students,activities which promote independence and autonomy more , generally become more relevant. This tentative outline model explains why parental involvement in the home is significantly more effective than parental involvement in the school. The former is more enduring, pervasive and direct. The latter is less so. It should perhaps be said that whilst research shows that parental involvement in the school has little if any impact on pupil achievement it is not without significance. The relationship between parental involvement (of any kind) and pupil achievement is probably not linear.
Often parents tend to overprotect their children at the school. They fail to realize that schools play an integral role to discipline their children.They misconstrue certain methods used by the teachers for disciplining as ways of condemning .In education, teachers are charged with the responsibility of becoming responsible for management of others. Namely, this is a group of precious and energetic students. They become our pride and joy in a learning environment.
Students are filled with excitement and a burning desire to learn. Enthusiasm and interaction are essential to the learning process. The more enthusiastic the teacher is, the greater is the likelihood that the number of interactions will increase. However, while enthusiasm and interaction can promote learning, if not carefully managed, they can also sabotage and ultimately destroy the fragile balance between them. This will cause students to move from productive to non-productive behaviors
All parents wish to provide the best life for their children. Some parents with good intentions tend to overdo it and overindulge their children to the grave detriment of their youngsters.
Overindulgence is defined by researcher David Bredehoft as providing, “Too Much Stuff: Materialism and activities, Over-nurturing: Too much assistance reducing self-reliance, and Soft Structure: Lax rules, no chores, aimless.”
Overindulgent parents often view themselves as loving their children unconditionally by permitting all requests and offering their youngsters free reign without restrictions. They also believe that being good parents entails supplying children with all of their wishes. These “permissive” parents give their children too much freedom too early and trust that they will handle it well. These adults often fail to distinguish between their children’s needs such as love, attention, guidance and their wants such as luxury, ease and non-exertion.
Professor David Bredehoft and Melissa Leach found that children who are overindulged grow up to be at risk for: “not knowing the difference between needs and wants; needing constant stimulation and entertainment from others; being deficient in life skills which interferes with performing daily tasks; not taking responsibility for their own actions; not learning important social skills which lead to interpersonal boundary issues and decision making problems; lower self-efficacy (a sense of feeling incapable of dealing effectively with life problems); overeating, overspending, and dysfunctional thinking (increased depressive thoughts). Paradoxically, overindulged children can develop an overblown sense of self-importance which can lead to problems at school, on the job, and/or in relationships.”

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