Steemhomework for the week! Handling difficult parents
Faced with these situations, the teacher should not be frustrated and should take the situation as well as he can, without getting involved more than he can do and try to explain to the parents of their students the reasons why they punish their children in a reasoned way and from an educational point of view
Tips for dealing with conflicting parents
In the following lines I will provide you with a series of tips to deal with conflicting parents:
Ideally, parents and teachers should enjoy a good relationship, based on trust, guidance and help so that children can improve their study habits and behavior. But, often, it happens that children have a high control over their parents and they are unable to see the wrong or wrong actions of their children and defend them in any situation without understanding the arguments and the reasons for a punishment. This, logically, in the long run only brings bad consequences for children who defend both their actions and parents.
In these cases, when dealing with these conflicting parents, the teacher must always explain to the parents the reasons why he punishes his children as their own improvement for them as people, or in what way certain behaviors or habits can be changed. studies. If the parents do not understand it and simply see that it is an attack on their children without understanding the best for their education, then the teacher can not do much more than follow the rules, codes of conduct and punishments that are followed in the educational center in which he works.
Of course, as a teacher, avoid taking as a personal thing the disqualifications that many parents give to teachers because they do not like them or because they do not like that they have to punish their child, without entering into reasons. Your role as a teacher is to teach knowledge and the education of children is the role of parents, and, unfortunately, this is not always the most appropriate.
As a teacher you must worry about the proper functioning of the classes and apply punishments when a child does not obey or endanger the learning of their classmates with their interruptions in class, their bad education or lack of interest. Neither do we have to throw in the towel, and we must see in which cases the parents are more predisposed to understand the reasons, without judging the child, and justifiably explain how their child should modify their behavior.
On many occasions, it is necessary to ask for help from school administrators and also, there are parents who, when meeting with more people of authority, begin to understand better the applications of punishments. In any case, you should have patience and tact when dealing with them.
I hope that these little tips can help you better manage the situation with difficult parents and can practice them in their schools, thanks to and greetings friends of the community of @steemiteducation.
One of the methods that works well for me is to establish good relationship with parents during peace time. Regularly update parents not just complaints but praises for their kids as well. By doing so, when things happen, parents usually put their trust in the decision made by teacher.
Hello @fun2learn, I totally agree with you, we always have to try to maintain a good relationship with parents no matter how difficult they are for the good of the student, the more communication we have with them, the better things will be for everyone! Thanks for reading and visiting my blog and I'm starting to follow you! regards!!
This is good.
It is important that parents and teachers have a good relationship. It will help both the students, parents and the teachers.
Exactly, the better you take the three most beneficial it will be for the student who in the end is the fundamental piece of that puzzle, a good communication would be the basis for everything! thank you for reading my publication and visit my blog and start to follow you, greetings!
Good post! As a teacher I have a rule of thumb: parents are always right. Most of them are frustrated by their own life, and their kids are what they wanted to be, the only reason they still get up in the morning... So the kids govern the house. You just can't tell them "you should do this way" because they'll freak out: my son is perfect! You're not, I'm not, but he is.
So... How do we do? I try as much as possible to work with the kids themselves. Because if they understand, their parents will not pose any problem: everything they do is perfect. But if I ever need to talk to the parents, I do it privately and I focus on good points, even if he's the real devil and shows none. Like "your son has many abilities, he's a good learner, bla bla bla... BUT..." ( and then I lightly touch the problem I want to solve. If possible, the very first time I don't even talk about the problem, because they feel you're in "their side", the side that thinks their kid is the best thing on earth. With time and pacience you'll get them in your hand and then trust me... You can do whatever you want. They'll forever hear you because you see the "heaven" in their little dictator. AND they'll pass that on to other parents, which is also good!
hello, @zpedro, I think it's a great technique, sometimes it's harder to deal with parents than with the students themselves, that's why as teachers we have to earn their trust and relate to them not only when putting a complaint or to inform them of any problems that your child may be presenting, but also to let them know their merits and abilities, in this way we will put them on our side and they will be our allies.As there are difficult children there are difficult parents and we as teachers have to use different techniques to handle situations that may arise. Greetings and thanks for visiting my blog and I'm starting to follow you !!
Yes that's true :) I also try to hear as much as possible to try to get "what kind of parent do is this?" There are the ones who trust you, the ones who need "proofs" first, the ones who don't even think about their children, the ones who crave for your flattering of their "little geniouses"... The more I teach, the more I try to make a small "catalog" of parents. Unfortunately I miss many times, but I guess with time I'll get better at it :)
I'll follow you too! :)