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FLORENCE KISIRKOI Post 1

• 1 May 2021, 12:24 PM

Hard to get Parents

We have great sharing on parents and stakeholder involvement in children learning and  is good when families get involved in their child's education. But how do we persuade parents who are hard to get so that they  come to value their child's education and welfare over other engagements?

Please share on how you bring hard to get parents on board.

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Rose Nyambura Post 2 in reply to 1

• 2 May 2021, 5:56 PM

Florence, i dont know whether im the only one who notice that mothers are more available than fathers when it comes to school visits. When dealing with discipline cases, I particularly instucted the child to bring the father failure to which i wasnt going to allow the child back to my class.  This worked. What is your experience course mates? 

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June Grant Post 3 in reply to 2

• 2 May 2021, 9:12 PM

Supportive fathers in education

More and more I have been observing the trend of fathers becoming more involved in their preschool children's education.

Examples: - 

- Many fathers show up for registration and enrolment

- Many of them participate in PTA meetings, drop off and pick up their children daily

- Some of these fathers act a school resource persons - sharing their knowledge with children depending on the theme or project for the term, e.g., Community helpers brings out fathers who are police officers, fire fighters, plumbers, taxi drives, construction workers and the like.

- School events such as Fathers day, Mothers day, Corpus Christi (plant a tree), sports day and cookouts, as well as, Carnival parades and graduation have had reasonable father turnouts, some of them even presenting the parent report.

- There are also instances of relationship breakups and the single fathers are the ones taking on the responsibility of raising the child or children and have been doing a marvelous with or without support from an extended family. This has been the trend observed over the last 10 to 12 in my context as an ECCE Teacher Assistant and as an Administrator/Teacher. 

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Rose Nyambura Post 4 in reply to 3

• 4 May 2021, 7:41 PM

Waoh June, this is a plus for your school. Psychologists are of the view that fathers have a positive impact in children's behaviour especially learning. So it is best when both parents are involved in school activities.