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Essay / The importance of parental involvement in education...
The success of the world's children depends on the full potential of every nation coming together to fight for a better place to live for more generations. Children should be the top priority of families as they become good members of the community and that starts with the child's academic success. Parental involvement is essential for success in school and throughout adult life as a responsible member of society and much of this involvement must begin in the child's early years of learning. Parental involvement in the context of education is the degree of participation that a parent engages in their child's education. Positive parental involvement from early childhood contributes to the development of cognitive abilities particularly necessary to prepare the child for school education. Parental influence in this early development involves the appropriate social skills and emotional maturity that the child will surely need to cope and adapt to the very complex circumstances of the current environment. True to the Read to Grow website's statement: “The influence of parents in the lives of young children is far greater than teachers and early childhood programs” (Did you know… par. 12). And with heavy reference to an article from the Harvard Research Project website which claimed that "active parental involvement in children's learning and academic activities has positive impacts on their academic achievement", it is then confirmed that Parental involvement improves children's social skills. helping them cope with the dynamic school environment; and that parents who read at home to their child in kindergarten promote greater reading comprehension skills. This document aims to ...... middle of document ...... together.b. Support school library programs that allow students to check out books that they can read on their own time and that are recorded in a reading log so that parents can check and approve the child's progress. Finally, parents are encouraged to read with their children at home, which not only promotes literacy development, with children receiving the adequate encouragement and support they need to read and learn from their parents, but helps also to the social and emotional development of children and achieves “greater resilience to stress, greater life satisfaction, greater autonomy and self-control, better social adjustment, better mental health, more supportive relationships, greater social competence, more positive relationships with peers, more tolerance, more successful marriages and less delinquent behavior” (Desforges and Abouchaar, 2003).