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Relationship Between Parental Role And Early Childhood Education And Its’ Development
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The idea of not “sparing the rod†so as not to “spoil the
child’ should be exercised with caution, as Ogbonna (2000) rightly
observes, it “may prove too harsh and disastrous for the child’s moral
and other aspects of personality developmentâ€. Parents should learn to
direct the lives of children towards positive development. they should
learn to inculcate in their children, the correct attitude towards moral
and ethical values. This will help them to have the required discipline
for living in a society like ours. Parents are indispensable in early
childhood development because this stage of development affects the
later stages depending on how they are brought up by parents. So, early
childhood development sets the tone for adult living (Ofo, 2006).
The
family is the first point of call of a child. Here, the child
experiences the first social interactions, learn his or her first
language and develops relevant attitudes to life. The implication
therefore is that the child is first a product of his or her family and
how the child relates to the larger society depends on the experiences
made available to him or her in the family. Parents being the closest
allies in early childhood, it is important that for positive and
meaningful development of the child, parents must be properly “schooledâ€
and experienced in the art of child upbringing (Adeleke, 2003).
1.2 Statement of the Problem
The
problem inherent in the parental academic achievement and development
of children at the early childhood level cannot be overemphasized
because parents are the first teachers of their children. Unfortunately
these days, some parents play negative roles in the upbringing of their
children.
The ages 0–08 years require proper parental care and
education in all ramifications. If appropriate, correct care and
education are not given to the children at this stage, it will lead to
children’s acquisition of negative characters devoid of decent society’s
expectations. Some parents love their jobs than their children. Such
parents have little or no time to stay with their children, nurture and
interact with them to know their feelings. To the family they belong,
their environment, other people, the school etc.
There were cases
where minor injuries at home generated to complications due to lack of
parental care and love. There were cases where children would either
told their parents to come back to pick them in schools or sometimes
would preferred to remain in the school rather than go home with their
parents.
Some parents cannot define the role of parents from the role
of school, until such children are sent home for either unkept hair,
teeth, uniform, socks etc that the parents would know what to do. All
these factors have contributed to the down-ward performance of children
from most families.
The above problems gave rise to this study as it
aim to examine parental roles on early childhood education and its
development in Lagos State.
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