Parents Role: A child's normal role, though more limite could be spelled out in similar detail. It is nece sarily a reciprocal and interacting role in relah'c to each aspect of the role of the parents role. For e: ample, as a parent is expected to teach, so in tui is a child expected to learn and to acquire and di play the social behavior that is appropriate to h age and sex, and that is acceptable to the famil; the peer group, and the community.
It may be pointed out that many schools already involve parents role in their children's learning, and indeed we recognize have tried to help them by introducing them to books and talking to them about reading. But entry into school itself often marks the beginning of an apparent withdrawal by parents role from the realm of their child's 'academic' learning. For their part, schools seldom foster the idea that parents role may still have a serious teaching role. Increasingly the responsibility for the child's developing knowledge tends to be taken over by the teachers. Yet this seeming abdication by parents role means that children, according to the evidence, are being deprived of a massive and potent source of help. |
