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Type 1 – Parenting

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PARENTING

BASIC RESPONSIBILITIES OF FAMILIES
  • Housing, health, nutrition, clothing, safety
  • Parenting skills for all age levels
  • Home conditions that support children as students at all grade levels
  • Information and activities to help schools understand children and families
SAMPLE PRACTICES
  • Workshops, videotapes, computerized phone messages on parenting and child development at each age and grade level
  • Parent education and other courses or training for parents (e.g., GED, family literacy, college or training programs)
  • Family support programs to assist families with health, nutrition, and parenting, including clothing swap shops, food co-ops, parent-to-parent groups
  • Home visiting programs or neighborhood meetings to help families understand schools and to help schools understand families
  • Annual survey for families to share information about their children’s goals, strengths, and special talents
CHALLENGES
  • Provide information to all families who want it or who need it, not only to the few who attend workshops or meetings at the school building
  • Enable families to share information with schools about background, culture, talents, goals, and needs
REDEFINITIONS
  • “Workshop” is not only a meeting on a topic held at the school building, but also the content of that meeting to be viewed, heard, or read at convenient times and varied locations.
RESULTS FOR STUDENTS

  • Balance time spent on chores, homework, and other activities
  • Regular attendance
  • Awareness of importance of school

RESULTS FOR PARENTS

  • Self-confidence about parenting as children proceed through school
  • Knowledge of child and adolescent development
RESULTS FOR TEACHERS AND SCHOOLS
  • Understanding of families’ goals and concerns for children
  • Respect for families’ strengths and efforts