Help the teachers to perform well.

You are the most important person in your child's life. Then come the teachers. They play an important role in ensuring the success and happiness of your child. How effective the teachers play their role depends upon two factors.
a) The quality of the teachers.
b) What ideas on respect for others you have taught your children.

When it comes to the quality of the teachers, we have no alternative but to presume them good if not excellent unless proven otherwise. This means we must start with wholesome respect for the teachers and place confidence in them to do their job well. Just check on your children's progress as often as you can.

How effective good teachers are depends on the parents' attitude towards teachers. Through words and deeds a parent can convey the wrong attitude causing the child to have no respect for teachers and authority.

If children are taught a healthy respect for teachers, children will be well prepared to accept the teaching of the teachers. Without an obstacle obstructing the flow of knowledge from the teachers to the children, children are more interested in their lessons and progress will be so much faster.

Unfortunately there are parents who slow down the learning process with doubts about teachers. For example, there are parents who caused their children to become confused with what has been taught with: "Your teacher said! Your teacher said! Forget what your teacher said. I am your parent! Now throw those pieces of chocolate wrappers immediately and don't mess up your hands. By the time you take it to the dustbin, your hands will be dirty. Then you rub your dirty hands onto your trousers and this mummy will have to wash it. Now throw it away! I don't care where you throw it, Just do it. I don't want to have to wash dirtier clothes."

And all that damage done to the child's trust in his/her teacher's advise to throw the chocolate wrappers into a dustbin.

The poor child must be confused.Was the teacher wrong and could it be that which makes mummy so angry? Should I follow her teaching again? Poor child! What is she going to do with the next eleven or more years of learning from teachers?

Parents should not allow this to happen to their children. There are parents who unwittingly teach their children not to listen to their teachers.

Yet, later in life when these children have grown up to be litter-bugs and are fined or punished for littering by the law, their parents would be demanding "What have all these years of schooling taught you? Your teachers are useless! A simple thing like throwing rubbish into the dustbin; you're not capable of doing that! Useless school! Useless teachers!

So, parents should allow teachers to do their job and let children learn the correct things even if it means inconveniencing them a little.