Fostering Holistic Growth: The Crucial Role of Parents in Nurturing Children's Academic Success

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Parenting encompasses a lot of aspects that revolve around the life of a child, such as their upbringing, mental health, well-being, feeding, decision-making, academics, and several others to mention but a few, and in order to brood out the best version of our child, we must be ready to give it our all to make sure they've got a bright future. Unfortunately, not all parents see things that way, and today I'd love to share an experience with you that hopefully will help us parents not leave the academic aspect of our wards to teachers alone.

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Although I'm a teacher by profession, today I'll speak to you not just as a teacher but also as a parent who wants the best for my kids, not just in providing for their basic needs but also in their academics, Making sure they're performing well in their academics, helping them in any aspect they fall short in, and making sure all they do after school isn't just play but to at least have a few hours to revise what they've been taught in school.

A few days ago, as a class teacher, I had to give out results to each student in my class. Since it's the third and final term, the results also indicate if a child is promoted to the next class or will repeat the same old class. Like I said in this post, we were informed not to give out the results to any child whose parents didn't accompany them to the school for the collection of the results. Unfortunately, despite that, not all parents still showed up, so I didn't give out the results to those who came alone.

Among those whose parents didn't show up was a boy who failed and would have to repeat the same class. It was painful knowing that such a boy would repeat because he was a decent boy, but unfortunately, his parents don't have any time for him, not for his academic performance. As we all know as parents, it's essential that we at least know the class teacher of our child, if not all of their subject teachers; unfortunately, the reverse was the case for this boy because his parents never showed up to the school since the very first day they enrolled him.

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We usually have three terms in one section before a child will be promoted to the next class, and in each term the students undergo examinations. Each term, I noticed the boy was underperforming in some core subjects like English and math, and I called the attention of the subject teachers to it. Of which both tried to give the child such special treatment just so he'd understand better, unfortunately such can't be easily done because it's a public school and a single teacher would have to teach nothing less than 600 students daily.

Regardless of that, I insisted they do something about it, but just so the parent can be aware of the situation, I didn't give the boy his results with the hope that when they realize he didn't come home with it after examination, it'll prompt them to come, yet they didn't show up, so I requested the phone number of the parent from the school authorities and I called them to let them know I'll love to see them. Both told me their businesses require their attention, and they won't be able to come to the school.

Without exaggerating, I called them nothing less than 10 times within the space of 6 months, and I was getting the same response, so I decided to explain the situation to them over the phone, so they can at least hire a private tutor to lecture the child after school, so he'll improve on those students he falls short on. All that advice fell on deaf ears, and I never saw them for once, even on the day of the collection of the finals results that determine their promotion.

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The bottom line of the story was that the boy found a way of tricking me to get his result, as he begged someone else's parents to represent his, which I gave them, and he went home with his result. When he got home and the real parents saw the awful results, they followed him to school and were looking for every means to get the boy promoted; they even tried to bribe me with some cash so I could alter the results for the boy to get promoted.

I see them as a shame to Parenthood and think they really need to do better and show up for their child in critical times and conditions. Assuming they've taken all of my calls and advice seriously, I believe the boy won't be in this situation now because a private tutor would have concentrated solemnly on him and helped him understand whatever seemed hard for him to decipher in a class of 80 students.

Aside from a private tutor or teacher, we parents also need to go through our child's school books, make sure they do their assignments, help or guide them in difficult ones, and also pay both the child and their teachers a surprise visit to know how well the child is performing in school. With all of these, the child will know education is a priority because you, as a parent, don't joke about it with them.

It's funny when I see parents who believe there's nothing to do with their child's education since they already pay for the child's school fee. Such shouldn't be the case; we don't because we've paid for the project for our house and then don't monitor the contractor to know if they're doing a good job, using the right materials or not, and several other things.
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Neither will we abandon our sick loved ones who fall ill after taking them to the hospital and paying the medical bill. We won't, because we've paid the bill, leave them in the care of the doctors and nurses till they're discharged; instead, we stick with them, check up on them, and help in every possible way at every given time. If we don't do that with doctors after paying bills, why should we do that with our children and teachers?

As parents, we shouldn't lessen our focus on the academic performance of our child, as our duties are as important as the duties of the teachers, and that way the child can become more serious and have someone to fall back on whenever they need help with their academy. I wish everyone of us all the best and pray that our children excel in life.


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Thanks for your time, haves wonderful weekend ahead.

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Es lamentable. En el colegio donde trabajo la Directora siempre repite la frase "tenemos hijos huerfanos de padres vivos" 😢💔 es la terrible realidad.
Muchos lo hacen por falta de tiempo, otros por descuido y hay la situación de padres que tienen la loca idea de un hijo independiente desde muy corta edad.
Un hijo necesita a sus padres para guiarlos, orientarlos, apoyarlos.
Gracias por compartir con este tema, yo también lo traté en uno de mis blog como una contribución a hacer un llamado de conciencia.

It's indeed an unfortunate situation, I can't agree more with your director at the school you work.

I mean what's the usefulness of a parent who can't cater for the necessity of their child, so they're indeed best describes has a orphan children with living parents, because the parent ain't performing their duties.

Parents needs to do better because the academic success of a child requires a collective work of both parents and teachers.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts .

Es lamentable. En el colegio donde trabajo la Directora siempre repite la frase "tenemos niños huerfanos de padres vivos" 😢💔 es la terrible realidad.
Muchos lo hacen por falta de tiempo, otros por descuido y hay la situación de padres que tienen la loca idea de un hijo independiente desde muy corta edad.
Un hijo necesita a sus padres para guiarlos, orientarlos, apoyarlos.
Gracias por compartir con este tema, yo también lo traté en uno de mis blog como una contribución a hacer un llamado de conciencia. Se

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Indeed, being a parent is a tough one but a fulfilling job when you see your child excels in something. Whatever aspects in life we have to support our children then, somehow they got their strength from us. Well, such a nice article of yours. Thanks for sharing this one. So knowledgeable. God bless.

Yea we are our children number one supporter and shouldn't do anything less than that, because aside being ours, they look up to us for everything.

Thanks so much for your input and kind words.

Indeed, so true.. You're welcome. God bless.

Amen, God bless you too.

You are a very dedicated teacher. I am also a teacher and I know what is the feeling when there is a failing student and you did all the means to reach through the parents, but the parents did nothing. They are just deaf and blind about our updates regarding their child.

Oh that's great to know you're also a teacher and sees this in the same light like I did.

Parents have a huge impact to play in the a academic performance of a child, unfortunately the boy had bad parents.

I see you doing your best as a teacher and agreed with all your wise words my dear friend. The best way is to follow up and check on them. That is also one of the issues we are facing in my country but we are helping in every possible way. Have a nice time!

Yes I'm doing my Best, it's painful watching the boy fail, assuming his parents were active with him, I'm sure e would have done better.

You went out of your way making effort to see that the parents of that child get involved towards his a academic performance, but unfortunately they felt adamant about it. How did they even think of bribing, that's a shame! I will say that you are great teacher who does his job diligently. I am a parent and my children's academic growth is one of my major priority. Even though bussinnes is important so I can earn money to take care of my children, I never fail to strike balance, finding ways or alternative to assist them .some parents fails to understand this, they only wake up when things are getting bad. I am not a perfect parent anyway but I am making effort to be the best that my children will be proud of.

Thanks for sharing

You've hit the nail on the right part, even though business are important, we must strike a balance truely and one shouldn't be negotiated for the other.

You're a wonderful mother and you're doing a great job with your boys.

Not all parents can do what you do. I hope they wake up and do the right thing.

For those parents, I've done my part and it's now left for them to turn a new leaf.

To be honest I feel angry with those parents who don't care about their child. I think that kind of parent should not give birth to a child because they don't deserve to be parents. Giving birth is not the only responsibility of parents. Not saying more because no good word is coming to my mouth hearing about the incident.

That's just it and an angle I really like, if they know they can't cater for the child, it's better not to give birth to him, than bring him to the world and now fail to perform their duties.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts.