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Quarreling Parents: Perhaps because we are optimists, we believe the law will1 progress in this area with the welfare of children as its primary concern. Courts will no longer subordinate the interests of the offspring to those of their quarreling parents, which is the common practice today. Perhaps the law may even call upon science, which by then may have learned enough about human conduct, to suggest where true justice lies!
Children learn first and foremost from their parents. In this respect all parents are teachers - and very effective teachers they are. Arguably, children learn more from their parents in the first five years of life than they do from their schools in the next ten. This book is about parents and teachers working together to help children with their learning; more specifically, it is about parents co-operating with teachers over their own children's reading. We have chosen the term PACT (Parents, Children and Teachers) to embody this concept.
It cannot be stressed enough that the school is entering into a partnership, and that the parents with whom this partnership is to be formed have their own opinions and feelings, which need into account. Teachers will find it possible to devise a set of guidelines for use by parents which they can feel perfectly confident about sharing. In our experience, though, there are one or two temptations to beware of One is to make your advice to parents much too complex, because of anxiety about parents getting it 'wrong'. |
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