Share Your View
Dear AMKsians,The following passage will appear in AMKsian Herald Volume 2 Issue 3 .Please share your view, feeling and thought on asking your parents to grant you more independence to solve problems you have with friends and teachers in school.
Thanks.
As parents of teenagers, you should be an integral part of your children's lives. At the same time this desire to be involved in your children's lives must be balanced with allowing your children the space to exercise in dependent thought and action and become self-reliant in the process. If parents intervene too strongly or regularly to solve school problems fortheir children, they could be robbing them of an opportunity to learn lifeskills they will need to succeed in school and beyond. When your childcomes to you with a problem they face in school, you could share with themhow they could solve the problem and encourage them to handle it on theirown. For instance, if the problem involves another classmate, you could use your experience to guide your child to solve the problem responsibly and encourage him or her to do so without first seeking help from the teacher.You could ask your child to approach a teacher to resolve the matter if itpersists or worsens. Similarly, a child could be encouraged to first seek clarification directly from a teacher without any parental intervention.This may not be easy for your child but your encouragement will give your child courage and make it easier. We encourage our students to speak up and speak their mind respectfully and we are most willing to listen to them.Parents can call up the teacher or bring the matter to the attention of the Vice Principal/Principal if it remains outstanding.It is through participating in problem resolution that children leave school with both academic skills and life skills like self-reliance,sharing and conflict resolution etc.
posted by AMKsian @ 7:54 AM
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