A recent research shows that four of five parents agree that they should be more involved in their children's learning, even though two thirds claimed to be giving at least two hours a week.
More surprising, perhaps, is teachers' apparent enthusiasm for parental involvement. Not long ago, schools seemed to associate parents with intrusion into their territory: spying in the classroom and misdirecting children at home, especially where early reading skills were concerned.
Still, parents should spend more time helping their children to learn at home, reading, practicing tables and taking their children on educational visits. Moreover, just having conversations with their children would be beneficial.
On the other hand, some teachers are concerned that paren
tal effort would be inhibited by insufficient knowledge and experience to tackle the complicated tasks of teaching a child to read, particularly in terms of being up to date or sharing beliefs with teachers. Many parents have not realised that 'things have moved on' since their time at school.
Yet there is still uncertainty about how to use time most productively: some parents play word-games with their children, read to them, watch educational programmes, help with counting and play computer games. On the other hand, there are parents who don't know how to help, or who have no spare time to participate in this type of activities. In this case, children are allowed to do what they mostly enjoy, especially watching cartoons, drawing, playing computer games and leaving homework as their last task.
All in all, it would be better that parents attributed more time to the learning of their children at an early age and helped them with their homework. Even if they don't have daily spare time to do it, it is impossible not to be able to do it at weekends, for at least one hour and a half. Having both the teacher's help and that of their parents, children will be well-prepared and will try to pay more interest to positive activities such as reading, word-building, watching educational programmes, instead of losing time in front of the television, with the so much-loved cartoons or computer games.
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