The Most Important Person

    

The parent is the most important person in the child's life.  Even before birth the foundation is created between the child and parent.  The parent teaches and trains the child until he/she goes school. Then something happens to the child that removes the parent from being the most important person in that child's life.   The parent all of the sudden becomes second in line of importance behind the teacher.  We must put the parent back at the top and believe that is where the parent needs to stay.
     As a teacher, my primary goal has been and always will be to keep the parent first.  Through my work with parents at school and with Parents as Partners I have seen over and over when the parent is first, the child succeeds.
     The purpose of this blog is to reach out to parents to empower them once again and put them first.  It is simple and works. Its not a complicated government funded program.  Its just believing in the parent, in all parents no matter their background or circumstances.  It's our (teacher's and administrator's) perception of the parent that needs to be changed.  We need to re-evaluate our belief system about parents so they can be number one.