Family involvement in a child’s life is crucial in child development and how they will be successful later in life. I read an interesting report on what it takes to help children be successful. “Don’t Forget the Families: "The Missing Piece in America’s Effort to Help All Children Succeed” The report is based on a study of 1,085 U.S. parenting adults of 3 to 13-year-olds. It focused on the importance of including families and building developmental relationships; how families are doing in building relationships and critical shifts for the future in helping children succeed. One of the subtopics that gained my attention in the report was "Reclaiming and Refocusing on Family Engagement". In my daily experiences sometimes it is hard to get parents involved in their children’s education because they are so busy and don’t have a lot of time.
This is think link to the site where you may read the entire research article. The article contains excellent information about the importance of families and the difference they make in their children's lives. It gives great indicators on what it takes to build relationships and demonstrates the outcomes of the positive effects it can have on children and their families.
http://www.search-institute.org/research/developmental-relationships/families
This is the link to the Search-Institute
http://www.search-institute.org/
References:
Pekel, K., Roehlkepartain, E. C.,
Syvertsen, A. K.,& Scales, P. C. (2015).
Don’t forget the families: The
missing piece in America’s effort to help all children succeed.
Minneapolis, MN:Search Institute.
Anita,
ReplyDeleteI agree that family involvement is very important to our children in school. I also feel that if the parents were involved, the children's performance would improve. We all know that children love to get parents approval and earn their praise. It is a win/win situation.
Anita;
ReplyDeleteGood Morning
You are right on point when you say the family play a huge role in child development. We read and see so many horror stories about children and how parents are a major cause in the failure of their children development and they have all kinds of issues in later in life. This report “The Missing Piece in America’s Effort to help all Children Succeed”. This report is one every educator and parent should read. The subtopics that gained your attention is a powerful statement.
"Reclaiming and Refocusing on Family Engagement". It’s not just you or your school it everywhere. In my life I experiences this my parents never had time to be there. I have to agree children fail due to the absence of parents’ involvement in their education.
Sometimes it is hard to get parents involved in their children’s education because they are so busy and don’t have a lot of time.