Important Role of Parents in the School Success for Children

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Every parent wants the best for their kids and wants them to be successful in life in all the aspects. They also want them to become caring and better adults in life.

Many a times parents would love to be involved in the formal education process for their children, but they do not know how and where to start the involvement. They are unsure on how to make a good fruitful connection with the school of their children.

To start with, many parents just start addressing this concern by encouraging the education for education. They tell the importance and the value of education for them, by this initiative.

Does involvement of Family members improve Success in School?

According to the studies and research performed by scientists, family’s involvement in the school affairs helps children in following ways:

1. It helps children to get ready for starting the school
2. Increases the school success rates
3. Prepares the young adults for their Tertiary education.

Here are some of the findings of the study performed. If parents help the child in at home to recognize letters he tend to understand them faster than ones whose parents do not help at home. If parents teach their child how to write words, kids can learn it faster and can relate them to sounds. If mothers use complex sentences daily in talks, their children are high performers in literacy tasks.

The study shows that parents should know this fact that how important they are in the success of kids education and school. Their time invested in helping child do their homework and attending school events pays off very well in child's future.

There could be some kind of flexible work place arrangement which can help parents attend school functions or meetings for their children. This possibility would help them connect better to the children without impacting parents work.

Different successful programs at school

1. Parent Mentor program - Parents of some children tell other families about school activities.
2. Allows parent volunteers to earn some kind of reward points for purchase of computers or other study materials.
3. Regular home visits by either the teacher can improve parent’s involvement.

Closing words about success in School

Parents have a very important role in child education. For kids, learning happens both at school and at home. In order to help students create a better future for them, we need support from parents and teachers alike. Parents involvement programs is the need of the day.