Parental Support
Overview
The success of school education depends not just on what happens in classrooms, but also on what children experience at home. Parents play a vital role in shaping their children’s attitudes, emotional health, and outlook towards learning. Unfortunately, unrealistic expectations, pressure to compete, and negative comparisons can burden children and strain their relationship with learning—and with themselves.
At AMHARTA, we help schools initiate ongoing and respectful dialogue with parents to:
- Encourage cooperation over competition, reducing anxiety and the harmful effects of peer comparison.
- Promote positive modeling at home, especially around moral and value-based education, supporting the school’s efforts in this crucial area.
- Prevent intergenerational bias, such as fear of subjects like mathematics, from being passed on to children.
- Build a culture of mutual respect between parents and the school, where parents become collaborators rather than critics, and blame games are replaced with shared responsibility.
As the NCF rightly emphasizes, systematic parental and community engagement through orientation sessions, regular PTMs, and ongoing dialogue is essential. We support schools through an array of services, in nurturing this engagement so that parents become allies in creating a healthy, nurturing ecosystem for children’s learning and overall development.
