Parent's should be involved in their childs education

I believe that is very, very important for parent's to be involved in their child's life as well as their education. With parents being involved the child knows education is important, and when parents help, their kids do well academically as well as socially and emotionally. These are key for children to develop. With them, they can learn easily rather than harder. The knowledge the parents have, they can pass them down to their kids, and with that the kids can do a lot better. It's better for parents to be involved in their kids education because it shows they want to be included in their children's lives and it shows they are very much so interested in the education of their child. Also, children can communicate better with their parents if they are involved.

It's also the teacher's job to have the parents involved in the child's education. They need to have the parents become involved at an early age so that through the years the kids are in school, the parents can be more effective that way. Also students perform better when their parents are involved in their education and they maintain their grades. "Close communications with parents and strong leadership skills from the teacher can significantly improve the school climate, educational experience, and follow the students throughout their lives" (www.maine.gov/.../communication.htm).

Another good outcome in having them be involved in their childs education, is it can improve the child's behavior. "The latest report from Government behaviour adviser Sir Alan Steer suggests schools need to work with parents if they are to regain control" (www.chroniclelive.co.uk/.../). With parent involvement, the students are improving their behavioral skills because they now that there parents care what they do. If parents didn't care, the pupils would do whatever they pleased, but with involvement, they do better.

Some parents don't want to get involved because they say they don't have time or energy, or they just don't feel like it because they don't care what there kids do in or out of school. It's a good thing this isn't the case with the kids in the education system today. Even if they don't have time, there are programs that help the parents be able to have a flexibility in their schedules so that they can get better involved in their child's education.With these programs parents can become supportive of their kids. I believe that communication is key between parents and children, children and teachers, and teachers and parents. With communication, shows effort that parents want to get involved and that they want to communicate with the teachers about their childs education. It is so important and I can't stressed that enough. Also instead of always relying on parent-teacher conferences, the teacher can contact the parents via e-mail or phone calls. This way is a good sense of communication. With the right communication, parents, teachers, and children are much happier.

Another thing that is good, is for parents to volunteer and do teamwork with other parents around them. If they volunteer, their children will in some way volunteer and do teamwork with other students around them too. Parents are the biggest influence in a childs life, because the kids look up to them. When the parent does something, it reflects on them as well as their children. It shows who they are as parents, and with this, the kids can learn and grow. They can grow through education with parent involvement as well.

Parent involvement in their childrens lives is such an important aspect as a parent because it shows how good of a parent they can be. With the involvement children can do so much better and they have the ability to believe that they can do well and also believe in themselves.