Parents /Guardians must monitor their ward's
academic activities in the school when they get home by checking their books
everyday and ensure they do their assignments. This is how you will know what
you are paying for. It should not be the work of the house help to know whether
your children are doing well in school or doing their home work properly. You
should find time to monitor their school work. No matter how limited your time
is, you still need to follow up with what the teacher teaches them so that you
will not lodge any complain when the deed is done. When the children are at
home, you become their teacher and you
should always give them
room to trust you as they trust their teachers.
It is the responsibility of the parents to pay the school fees of their
children on time before they are sent out of the school. One of the ways in
which the school management punish the school fees defaulters, is by sending
them out of the classroom but still allow them in the school compound or they
are sent out of the school to meet their parents at home. What happens to the
former category is that the children involve do not always inform their parents
when they get home that they are denied of receiving lectures because some of
them will forget to inform their parents while some love to be out of the class
due to playfulness and laziness.
Furthermore, for the latter category, most of them do not
go home directly, they go to their friend's houses while some go and stay home alone.
This is how some of the girls are harassed and raped by friends, families,
neighbors, and elders but they keep these illicit activities to themselves.
Most of the boys learn different wayward activities like smoking, raping,
drinking, and cultism.
Another role of the parents in education is to be observant. Parents
must observe their children to know what's going on in their mind. Some of
these children are passing through terrible situations but they pretend to be
alright. I am a teacher and I have seen a lot of cases of children that find in
difficult to concentrate when the teacher is teaching them because of what is
happening or has happened to them.
Sometimes ago I told a girl to see me in my
office when I observe that she was sleeping while I was teaching. After
interrogating her, she told me of a gate man that did attack her on her way
home almost every day, she said the raped her severally to the extent of giving
her drugs to use to prevent pregnancy. Can you imagine a girl of 15 years in such
a terrible situation? This same girl told me about how she aborted pregnancy
for her guardian’s driver. Some children have examination tension and some have
phobia in some subjects but their parents are not aware of this, if you are
aware of what they are going through it will be easy to help them out. Parents
need to look at their children with a keen eye and know when they someone to
talk to and someone to show them love and care.
