Acquiring Spiritual Knowledge

Topics for parent groups include child-rearing concerns, child development, and methods parents may use to help children experience healthy development and success in school (Aldridge, 1991; Friedman & Benson, 1997). The elementary school guidance counselor works with parents through individual consultation, joint consultation with the children’s teachers, and parents discussion groups. In these ways the counselor assist parents to: understand their children’s progress in school, select strategies to motivate their children, develop realistic goals with their children, become actively involved in their children’s school life, and understand the educational program K-12 (Byrd, 1988, p. 29). The counselor may lead parent education and discussion groups and serves as a resource when parents study or discuss child-related issues. The counselor consults with parents to identify students with special abilities and/or needs.

Homeschooling is an education that gives parents choices and the right to teach their child however they want, but are the parents’ wants what the children need. Parents want to give their children moral instruction or want to teach them based on their religious beliefs and parents do have the right to do that because it is their child, but there are specific things that are essential for a child to learn or to experience. There are religious schools that give children an education on their faith and academically. Homeschooling doesn’t work because states have varying or no regulations on curriculum, some parents just aren’t equipped to teach their children, and homeschooled kids do not experience socialization. Parents don’t have to show how their child is performing academically, some parents only have a high school diploma or less, and homeschooled children are missing an important element of life because they aren’t learning or participating in class discussions or activities in a classroom setting.

Parents should not stop reading or helping their children when they do start going to school. They still like to be read to, and it can help to increase their vocabulary as well. Parents can also help their children with their reading sk... ... middle of paper ... ...rom my experience, not experiments of other children and documented research. As a parent today, I have done the total opposite of my parents, with the help of my husband and with teachers in the Twinsburg school system. All in all, the parents of today need to be prepared, motivated, and of course; confident to help their children succeed.

It makes it possible for us to discuss what is working and not working with the students. Maybe the parents may have ideas to give the teacher when it comes to behavior or learning techniques for there child. The parent is with or near the child the other two thirds of the day. Communication is important for that everyone is on the same page, and that everyone’s main concern is helping the student succeed Is an open and active teacher-parent dialogue always necessary? I would say that open and active dialogue is almost always necessary for student achievement.

At the Green House for Kids, Ms. Jan helps the parents understand it will take time for the children to learn to love and trust new teachers because they are building a new relationship. Jan also informs the parents it is normal for kids’ short-term behavior changes and separation anxiety. From Ms. Jan, I realize emotional and outburst of anger is common during a child's transitional period. At the same time, I also understand though separation anxiety is completely typical part of childhood development, due to working together between parents and teachers, both the child and parent can go through difficulties with ease. In the chapter of transition, Griffin stated it was the quality of relationship between a parent and a ... ... middle of paper ... ...pend the extra money on it.

PARENTING STYLE Parenting style is a method that was used by parents into considering how their children are raise to the required standard that was expected and taught. Parent structure their children accordingly to their behaviors and attitudes as they grow up and how the children are to perform in their surrounding environment. Therefore, this essay will firstly examine some characteristics that a parent should have towards their children. Next, parents have authority over their children in deciding how their child behaves in a way that is respectful to others and lastly, parent is more into concerted cultivation of their children. Likewise every child needs the right parenting to higher achievements and prosperity.

Reasons Why People Homeschool In order to determine whether Homeschooling is indeed promising, one must first understand the reasons why people choose to Homeschool. According to Reich, Homeschooling is appealing to many families because of the capability to almost entirely customize education for their children. Many families want to homeschool because they do not feel that their children’s spiritual and moral needs are met in public schools. Moreover, some families choose to Homeschool in order to screen their child’s curriculum to remove secularist views found in modern day public school curriculum (2002). Others have children with special needs or learning disabilities, so they choose to homeschool (Maaja, 1997).

For one thing, parents should show respect so their children would respect others as well. It is essential that kids should be polite and therefore parents should push their children to use polite words and a kind tone of voice. For example, my brother is a father of two children, and he doesn’t allow his children to yell or shout in a loud voice. He teaches them how to be polite especially in the presence of other kids in the neighborhood. Also, it is more appropriate that children say hello and welcome to people in the community.

After Donny gets kicked out of school, he leaves his hometown and his whereabouts become unknown. Daisy is left in shock, wondering where she went wrong in young Donny’s life. There are certain parenting values that are very important to the stability and effectiveness of a family. These important values include parents being able to communicate effectively with their children, being patient, and consistently disciplining the child. Communication between a parent and child should be a daily routine.

As children grow, they will learn how to communicate verbally by listening to the people around them. Verbal development matters through the toddler years, and it is essential that parents take the time to teach children how to effectively communicate; it is during this period when children learn the most. There are four different stages of learning communication skills: beginning awareness, awkwardness, skillfulness, and integration; all of these skills come into play as children begin to interact with those around them. The word “haptics” is the scientific term for touching; this type of signal can communicate many types of messages for example, a hug can send a message of love