Our Three Basic Rules for Our Son's School Success
November 08, 2013I am a Mom, Parenting, The Teacher in Me,
Frankly speaking, I understood more the situation and feelings of my students when my eldest son, Ross, started to attend school.
I realized that school pays an important part in students' development but parents' behavior have a greater impact in their children's behavior towards school.
Our children is the reflection of our behavior and attitude--- the way we treat others, our concept of right and wrong, the consistency of our actions with our words, our ways of dealing with anger, and most importantly, the way we give expectations.
According to Mimi Hudson, Director of Community Programs, Family Services of North Shore, parental expectations affect our children's motivational and self-expectations. Our children succeed if given realistic expectations and they fail when faced with unrealistically high expectations. Their failure is due to pressure, anxiety, and discouragement when they don't live up with their parents' expectations.
In line with this, there were moments when my husband and I talked about how we were raised by our parents. To cut the story short, we realized that we enjoyed school and succeed because our parents guided us well.
To help Ross enjoy school and succeed too, we set three basic school rules for him. We still remind him everyday to follow these rules before sending him off to school. We also ask him to repeat them as we speak so that he would remember them by heart. What is good about him is he never complains and does his best to practice them.
1) BE GOOD
topics that he talked about with his friends,
his new endeavors, and new books that he read from the library.
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