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11. Catholic Teaching and the Role of the Parents (Challenges for Schools…
11. Catholic Teaching and the Role of the Parents
Foundations
Roles of father and mother are equally necessary in raising children
Schools have a duty to assist parents in the education of their children. They do this first and foremost, by providing the expertise in curriculum delivery.
Schools need to provide concrete support to parents
Always remembering that the right and responsibility for raising of children lies with the parents
Parents - primary educators, school bound by law of subsidiarity regard
The Principle of Subsidiarity and Schools
Always remembering that the right and responsibility for raising of children lies with the parents
Parents are the child’s primary educators and important partners in their learning journey. When schools, families and communities work together in partnership; student learning and wellbeing is enhanced and school communities are strengthened.
Schools also need to help with parenting support
Sydney Catholic Schools works closely with its key stakeholders to establish strong connections that encourage and support a deeper understanding of ways to connect learning at school and at home.
Schools have a duty to assist parents in the education of their children. They do this first and foremost, by providing the expertise in curriculum delivery
Challenges for Schools and Teachers
Behaviour Management issues often trace back to family and home circumstances
Attention deficit hyperactive disorders (ADHD)
Oppositional defiant disorders (ODD)
Effect of domestic violence on children
Inability to self-control and disrespect for teachers
Complex trauma is common in many classrooms
Role of the School
Catholic schooling is a project that families share with others
Families need to support their school in maintaining its Catholic identity
There are responsibilities as well as rights involved in Catholic schooling
To educate children without paying significant attention to the family is to ignore one of the most significant aspects of human development
The Catholic school is the principal educational arm of Catholic families, parishes and the wider Church.
It is there to assist parents and parishes in their educational, evangelical and catechetical mission, as well as to help the wider community in its educational and civic service.
Our schools will also seek to involve parents and families in the process of evangelising and catechising their children, seeking in the process also to educate those families in the faith
Parents
Evangelising and catechising children remains primarily a parental responsibility.
Schools can play a major role in helping parents grow in this understanding.
Supporting the school community: staff, students and families, to grow in the knowledge and love of the Catholic tradition.
Catholic schools to make efforts to increase the participation of students from poorer families.
The Mother Factor.
A warm relationship with the mother seems to be a very significant predictor of future financial security
Those with warm relationships with the mother were less likely to develop dementia later in life
Warmth of relationships in childhood is a strong predictor of the warmth of relationships in later life
Provide a sense of security within a relatively safe and self-contained world. Protecting the child from fear of abandonment; trying to make things safe and pleasant
Relationship Factor
Intergenerational love, caring for people of other generations – parents or children – is a very strong predictor of happiness
Those still involved in caring for children at age fifty are six times as likely to be happy as those who are not
Relationship (love) is a very strong predictor of happiness & success
The Father Factor
A good relationship with a father seems to be a strong predictor of long term happiness and marital success.
Good childhood relationships with the father also predict a future capacity to “play” and to have high “life satisfaction”
To make sure that the child faces the world as it is and is not confined to the complete safety of a fully controlled environment. The father is not that of a second mother. The role is different and requires the imposition of limits, without accepting excuses
Consequences of Fatherly Disengagement
More prone to drug and alcohol abuse “Out of control” teenager Delinquency Unhealthy extension of safe, protective environment beyond childhood. Lack of independence in taking responsibility
The Role of Both Parents
Both facilitate the nurturing of that life
Each emerges as a unique source of distinct and critical nurturing in the development of children
Both create life
Continual involvement of both a mother and a father in the home is the natural ideal for the child’s development
Fathers- predisposed to foster self-reliance, achievement, and healthy peer relationships particularly important during the transition to adult life.
If one dominates and excludes the other, there will be special challenges
Both mothers and fathers play a distinct role in the formation of a family and caring for children. Children are best served where both these roles exist in healthy tension just as Christian virtues consists of the right exercise of both virtues, not the erasure of one for the sake of the other.
Mothers - biologically predisposed to nurture, teach, and provide care: foundational for development
Four characteristics that mark a Catholic school community
Care and Compassion. Catholic schools communities should be marked by an emphasis on care and compassion.
Parental Partnership. Accept the important role to be played by parents in the school. Also ensure that parents do not “overstep the mark” and attempt to impose their own personal agendas.
Unity and common ground. Need to work together in pursuit of the same broad goals
Embedded in the parish and in Catholic practice. The relationship with the Catholic Church is integral to the development of the community. .. Religious practice needs to be expressed in prayer, ritual and worship.
A Catholic school community can be marked by the characteristics of unity and common ground, care and compassion, parental partnership and embedded in the parish and in Catholic practice.
Strategies for Building the Community Focus
Developing a strong people focus in relationships
Openness to the place of families and family life
Facilitating communications
Making efforts to link the parish and school; Supporting the needy
The relationship between the Catholic school and its parents and families is founded upon two principles.
That parents are acknowledged as the primary educators of children
Schools must help equip parents for the work of education
The Church values the respect for family and draws us beyond being a community to communio, a family of God united by mutual charity and made one through the worship of the Trinity. Together the Church and family unite in their roles to educate and care for children