Forefront Families

No parent wants his or her child to fail.  No teachers want their students to fail.  Society doesn’t want us to fail.  The ‘No Child Left Behind’ campaign is a good start to have our community recognize the need to cater for those children who can so easily be forgotten.  You as a parent or a teacher can help prevent children failing at school.  Having a positive attitude towards learning and school will pay huge dividends, even if your own school experience was predominantly negative for you.  Ensuring that your child is bringing work home, having regular contact with the school, attending parent/teacher conferences, going to extra-curricula school events, teaching your child study skills, how to listen, how to learn effectively, and how to behave will reduce the possibility of failing.  When you keep up with your child’s progress, or lack of progress, you are staying on top of the situation.  If you don’t have the resources to help you teach your child the above skills, then your local library will be able to help.

Failure is part of life and we need to provide our children with the necessary coping skills, but we want to reduce the number of unnecessary failures our children have to face.

This topic will provide some skills and knowledge to help you reduce the instances of failure, and what to do when they fail.