The role of the parents is not only support their wards to score high per centage of marks in academic career, rather should be careful and supportive him or her to develop the knowledge, discipline, confidence, character, and skills which are essential factors for successful academic and professional career.
An ideal parents should act in a responsible manner as per following ways
- They should discover their the children’s’ natural strengths
- They should observe their interest towards the subjects
- They should identify the activities their children enjoy in everyday life
- They should keenly observe whether their wards are analytical, creative, practical, communicative, or research-oriented
- They should observe their children’s learning style and pace
Care should be taken to refrain from imposition of your own career dream onto your child. Moreover a responsible parents should guide them toward a career as per their abilities and interests.
- They should build strong fundamentals in the minds of their children for different subjects. They should remember that top academic career starts with strong basics.
The parents should encourage their children for mastery in following aspects.
- Mathematics and logical reasoning
- Language and communication
- Science and technology
- Reading and comprehension
- General awareness
The parents should assess the daily learning progress of their pupil
- The parents should establish a disciplined daily routine in a realistic manner for their children. The routine should be balanced with respect to daily activities towards Study, Exercise, Recreation, Family time and Sleep.
The parents should teach their children in following manner
- How to set daily goals
- How to maintain consistence in study through out the educational year
- How to avoid mobile phone addition to have focused study
- Advise and monitor them to review the daily learning activities
- Advise and monitor them to prepare the next day’s priorities
The parents should make discipline of their children as a habit, not a daily compulsion.
- The parents should teach the learning process to their children. The parents should develop an independent learning hobbits in their children in the following manners.
- Reading beyond textbooks
- Asking questions
- Making their own notes
- Solving problems independently
- Explaining concepts in their own words
- Using reliable digital resources
- Learning from mistakes
Care should be taken to observe that gradually the “Parent-guided learning” shall be turn into “Self-directed learning.”
- The parents should make their children to focus on understanding, rather memorization. The questionnaire on the understood subjects develops critical thinking and problem-solving ability.
This develops critical thinking and problem-solving ability.
- The parents support their children to develop communication skills as academic excellence is not enough alone.
The children should be encouraged to develop following skills
- English and/or strong regional-language communication
- Writing skills
- Public speaking
- Presentation skills
- Debate and discussion
- Listening skills
A knowledgeable person who cannot communicate effectively may struggle to convert knowledge into opportunities.
- The parents should make arrangements to introduce technology to their children and ensure its responsible use. The technology can be an extra ordinary learning tool. They should make arrangements to make arrangements to teach them to use the following tools
- Online courses
- Educational videos
- Digital libraries
- AI tools responsibly
- Educational applications
Side by side the parents should ensure that there should be healthy boundaries around social media, gaming and entertainment. They should ensure that technology should be used as a tool by their children and technology should not be allowed to control the minds of your children.
- The parents should support their children for physical and mental well-being, because the academic performance heavily depend upon overall wellbeing of their thildren.
Parents should encourage:
- Adequate sleep
- Regular physical activity
- Nutritious food
- Outdoor activities
- Hobbies
- Family interaction
- Appropriate relaxation
They should develop a concept in them so that they shall believe that marks are not more important than health or happiness. The career excellency should not be achieved at the cost of their health. The utilization of efforts of children should be made without paralysing the physical ability.
- The parents should not compare their children with others
Rather they should make children to compare their performance with previous one and their weaknesses and improvements.
- The parents should their children to treat failure as feedback.
The parent should analyse the performance of their children in the following basis’
- Whether the preparation was inadequate?
- Whether the concept misunderstood?
- Whether time management poor?
- Whether there examination anxiety?
- Were there avoidable mistakes?
Accordingly, an improvement plan should be made. .
Failure should become a teacher, not a label.
11.The parents should create a career awareness early in the minds of their children and should not create a pressure on them.
As children grow older, expose them to different careers and educational pathways.
They can learn about:
- Engineering
- Medicine
- Science and research
- Management
- Law
- Civil services
- Finance
- Teaching and academia
- Entrepreneurship
- Emerging technology fields
- Skilled professions
Let the child understand what different careers actually involve before making decisions.
- The parents should ensure to build character alongside academic excellence
A truly successful student should develop Knowledge , Discipline, Integrity, Empathy, Responsibility and Confidence
They should teach them:
- Honesty
- Respect for others
- Responsibility
- Time management
- Financial awareness
- Social responsibility
- Respect for teachers and support staff
- Helping others
The ultimate objective is not merely to produce a high-ranking student, but a capable and responsible human being.
