…Parents Participation
 Education is a joint effort between the School and the parents and a close cooperation between them is essential.

At Pumpkins parents of the children are required to participate in various activities. Some of the activities are a requirement of the curriculum whereas others are voluntary where parents come forward with their ideas which are then modified suitably and implemented. 

…Pumpkin’s Guide to Good Parenting 

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
for they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward not tarries with yesterday. 

A  passage from ‘The Prophet’ by Kahlil Gibran

Dear parents, 

We would like to enlist your help. In an academic year we will be giving every child regular fun activities to do at home, your guidance and support will surely help your child feel proud of successfully completing this activity. Throughout the year we will be sending home several letters about the role of homework in our classes. We know parents often wonder why they have homework to do at all.   

The “whys of home supervised activities”.

Supervised activities build a bridge between children’s lives in and out of school. The child takes what we do at school and relates it to the rest of his world. You can help by discussing school work and helping to link learning to real life, pointing out ways it touches your family’s world. 

Parenting is a word which when referred to literally means Training, giving right values, Order, Compliance with what we think is good socially, emotionally physically etc. This need to give the right values and behaviors bring us to the question of discipline. Swami Rama wrote in his book Love and Family Life:

Children should never be treated cruelly or harshly in the process of being educated. The whole essence of discipline is wrapped inside a small truth called love. If you really love your children and tell them not to do something, they will rarely misbehave.

We as Parents never have the time to sit down and think that parenting also means Spending quality Time with children, caring, Playing, Laughing, Dancing and keeping our children happy so that the training which we want to impart our children can be imparted in a loving and encouraging environment and is easy and enjoyable for both the children and the parents. However parenting does not mean compensating quality time with expensive gifts and bowing down to their unreasonable demands. Parenting is not necessarily an innate skill. We tend to parent much as we were raised. The work is usually done with on-the-job training, and the best parents work hard at it. Children don't come with instruction manuals and most wisdom in parenting comes from making mistakes.

But again -- the best parents take this job seriously and devote their best time and energy to it.

Think of your own childhood. Was it a happy one, or do you wish it had been different? What was it about the good things that made them good, and why were the disappointments so hard?

 
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