All parents want their children to become successful, caring adults. Similarly, many parents want to be involved with the formal education of their children. Sometimes, however, they don’t know where to start, when to find the time, or how to go about making positive connections with the school.At the most basic level, parents can begin encouraging the education of their children by showing that they truly value education themselves.
Realistically, children whose parents actively do share in their formal education would possibly achieve better academic and non- academic performance. Great benefits that have been identified that measure parental involvement in education include higher grades and test results, positive attitudes and behavior, more successful programs and more importantly, long term academic achievement which in the end will benefit the students, the school and the parents because in the future he/she will be part of the country’s most successful individuals.

Nowadays, parents are occupied with so many things in life due to the high standards of living. Sometimes children are not given enough support and attention and so great numbers of students have poor academic and non-academic performance. It is high time to encourage the parents to get involved not tomorrow but today.
“In this complex world, it takes more than a good school to educate children. And it takes more than a good home. It takes these two major educational institutions working together.” By Dorothy Rich, author of MegaSkills.

By: Rufa C. Carreon | Teacher II | Bonifacio Camacho National High School | Abucay, Bataan