Parental involvement with their children throughout the school year with their homework assignments, attending school events, providing support for extracurricular activities, and giving them a disciplined life at home will make children leaders with a promising success in their adult life. In addition, parents  actively monitoring their children’s lives in school and at home attribute to the creation of a wholesome adult.  Among active involvement, parents must tutor their children, demand desired and accepted behaviors, discipline them through  a time out rather physically for their wrongdoings, provide encouragement, make necessary decisions for them, provide role models, provide love with physical bonding, and give a happy, caring, and loving family environment. Children are not sent to us with guidebooks, which is why it is so important to give a child an upbringing which incorporates all vantage points.  For a parent to raise a leader, a successful member of the adult society, it does not matter if that Parents is a step-parent, a single parents, foster-parent, rich or poor parents, highly educated or not educated parents, or caretakers, the bottom line is that the caretaker is involved.  For almost seven hours a day we leave our children in the hands of the educators.  Our duty is to enhance what the child is learning and to give the child a home environment.   Parents’ involvement is directly related to children’s success in school with positive behavior and attitude towards the society. Disadvantaged children benefit the most when their parents get involved with their learning process. In addition, parents who read stories to their children increase interest in the children’s learning. Parents should always encourage, provide support, enhance communication and build trust with their children. Finally, parents must educate themselves with child developmental stages and the different phases their children go through to better understand their children.

As long as we are involved, we can overcome any obstacles in dealing with our  child.  When we form a healthy relationship with the child, the child automatically comes to us with his or her issues in school.  The child forms an open relationship with the parent which leads to open communication with the child.

Parents are allies of the school and their involvement in school and at home with their children’s life is important and always appreciated by not only the school faculty but also by the children.  Children feel empowered and supported when they see their parents at a school event.  Children appreciate a parents involvement.