The success of the world's children is the full potential of every nation coming together to fight for a better place to live for multiple generations. Children must be families' top priority as they grow up to be good members of the community and it starts with a child's academic success. Parental involvement is essential to achieving success academically and throughout adult life as a responsible member of society, and much of this involvement must begin in the child's early learning years. Parental involvement in the educational context is the degree of participation a parent engages in their child's education. Positive parental involvement in early childhood contributes to the development of cognitive skills necessary especially to prepare the child for school education. Parental influence in this early development implies the appropriate social skills and emotional maturity that the child will certainly need to cope with and adapt to the very complex circumstances of today's environment. True to the statement on the Read to Grow website: “The influence of parents in the lives of children is much greater than that of teachers and early childhood programs” (Did you know…par.12). And with broad reference to an article on the Harvard Research Project website which stated that "the active involvement of parents in their children's learning and school activities has a positive impact on their academic performance", it is then confirmed that the Parental involvement improves children's social skills. in helping them cope with the dynamic school environment; and that parents who read to their child in kindergarten at home promote greater reading comprehension skills. This document is intended to… half of the document… together.b. Support school library programs that allow students to borrow books to read in their free time by recording them in a reading log so parents can check and approve their child's progress. Finally, parents are encouraged to read with their children at home which not only promotes literacy development by getting children the proper encouragement and support they need to read and learn from their parents, but also helps the development social and emotional life of children and achieves "greater resilience to stress, greater life satisfaction, greater self-direction and self-control, greater social adjustment, greater mental health, more supportive relationships, greater social competence, more positive peer relationships, more tolerance , more successful marriages and less delinquent behavior” (Desforges and Abouchaar, 2003).
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