“Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child and one teacher can change the world.” – Malala Yousafzai
Dr Abe V Rotor
1. Parents must respect the right of their children – never open and scrutinize their school backpacks in their absence or without their permission.
2. Where and when feasible, encourage your child to walk or bike in going to school. It is an excellent way to keep him or her physically fit. Ensure the bike is in good condition, that the helmet fits properly and the bike is equipped with a bell and warning sign.
3. Ensure your children a healthy lunch (baon) and snacks that will provide them energy through the day. Secure their food and water in a convenient containers. Bottled water and juices are a great way to keep kids hydrated.
4. Don’t be too critical about carbonated softdrinks, zero calories and food with MSG (monosodium glutamate or vetsin)– these being deleterious to health is exaggerated. How could they be in the market and used by so many people if they are not safe? Don’t deprive your children from these foods.
5. Lay the breakfast table the night before. This will facilitate work during the rush hour, and allow the children to eat on their convenience, and according to their school schedule.
6. Put out your clothes the night before. Lay out a complete set of clothes for each child. Older children should do these themselves. You can double check when you say goodnight. Then if something is missing (like shoes need polishing) you have time to put it right. Lay your own clothes out too!
7. Set up base camp where the children keep all their school things. But each child must have his own things separate from the others’. There is a common place for sports equipment, reference books, shoes, umbrella, and the like. This will train them of group and individual discipline. Here goes the saying, “A place for everything and everything in its place.”
8. Fill out a schedule of what is needed at school on each day and pin it up at base camp. Check each morning before you walk out the door that you have the appropriate kit or backpack. Keep abreast with schedule and requirements of school activities. Plan ahead, that’s why you have a weekly and monthly planner.
9. Establish a place and time for doing homework and stick to it. Check computer, printer and other gadgets functioning. Have dictionaries and other necessary books nearby, as well as school tools and supplies always available. Always put the base camp in order after finishing home projects and assignments.
10. Set your watch exact on time, so with the alarm clock. In this way you are like the Swiss – they are always on time exact to the second. Your teacher will praise you for you exactness and promptness.
11. Write out an action plan for dealing with any chronic health conditions your child might be suffering like asthma and allergies to guide the school physician and your child's teachers in attending to him, especially during emergency.
12. Make sure that you have contact numbers of your child’s close companions, his school and teachers, especially the adviser. Keep up-to-date emergency phone numbers on ready file, for both you and other members of the family.
13. Have your kids minimize or avoid stimulating activities, such as computer games, within one hour before bedtime. And make sure they go to bed and wake up about the same time every day.
14. Laging handa (Be prepared always) - this Boy Scout motto applies to all. Is your car running short of gas? Is the ref empty? Who will take care of the pets? You will miss the bus. These are all parents’ responsibilities – the children are still young anyway.
15. There are schools that are so-called "diploma mills". It means these schools are at the low end of education where admission policies are extremely liberal. It’s all right to enroll your bright child in these schools and you will find out how he will shine.
16. One test to find out that these schools are at the low end is that their graduates have very low performance in professional board exams, low preference in employment, low priority in scholarships, grants and awards.
17. Your child’s study habit is based on his being an owl or lark, so to speak. This is just unfounded; anyone can study better either in the night of in the morning according to his choice and preference.
18. By the way the owl person is not so receptive in his studies in the evening specially deep into the night like the owl bird. It’s the lark that has this habit, that’s why it is happy to greet the day with a song.
19. No one actually is exempted from this evolutionary adaptation – either you are a night or day person. It’s a Darwinian survival mechanism. Any deviation is temporary, the genes have the final say.
20. If your child has shallow sleep, he sneezes like he has colds, it’s because his bedroom is inhabited with countless microscopic dust mites. They feed on flakes that fall off daily from the skin and hair. The best way to get rid of these mites is to use extra strong insecticide because mites are more resistant than insects.
21. Simplify and organize your room. The fewer things we have in our room the better. Take out those books, magazines, especially newspapers. Vacate the room of cosmetics, medicine and food. Take off the racks and shelves because they accommodate dust. And take that computer out of your room.
22. As long as your bedroom is presentable, you can make it as your work area with your classmates and friends. Why not?
23. The best schools are those accredited by local, national and international accrediting organizations that confer autonomous status and brand of excellence. More and more schools in the world today are relying on them rather than their own internal management systems.
24. School preparedness drills – earthquake, fire, terrorists – must not be taken for granted. Check your children’s working knowledge and acquired skills if these can be applied in the home as well.
25. Our children are our greatest assets in life, our legacy, our hopes and dreams. Invest in them for their future. Give them all they need, but don’t spoil them. The greatest thing we can give them is __________. ~
ANSWERS: 1t, 2t, 3t, 4f, 5t, 6t, 7t, 8t, 9t, 10f (5 or 10 minutes earlier), 11t, 12t, 13t, 14f, 15f, 16t, 17f, 18f, 19t, 20f, 21t, 22f, 23f, 24t, 25 Love.
Outstanding 23-25
Very Good 19-22
Good 15-18
Fair 11- 14
Failed 10 and below
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