3103. Educating for Life
Parents, and other
elder siblings, cannot leave their children and their education to the care of
the school and that’s it. This latter one is subsidiary to parents’ education
and a great help no doubt!
Dad for example may not know how to teach German to
their children but he will take care of how they learn German and all about
this parenting mission in life: Do they like it? How does their teacher of
German teach? Etc.
Parents, as Larry Ferlazzo and many other authors have
recently and always said, should be engaged with their children’s education,
even and up to some extent at school.
For example parents’ view and vision of
their own work educates quite a lot. I mean parents’ general concept of work
and precisely their own work. As well family’s notion of homework may educate
pretty much, as you can infer from what’s been said so far.
Homework is
important, paramount I would also say. It’s enhancing, consolidating and reviewing
of what has been taught and eventually learned at school, according to expert
Julio Gallego Codes (2004).
Parents and elder brothers and sisters have to set
an example. For instance they could create a working atmosphere at home at
certain times, even by talking lowly and respecting others’ homework, reading
and studying. I’ve been to different family houses where this had been gently set
as a kind of rule. / Photo from: father-son-talking www lds org
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