Teaching children is the responsibility of the parents together, not the mother alone

Parents' follow-up to the study of their children has positive dimensions with regard to the educational and psychological aspect, as their level improves academically and they love school.

The role of the mother alone is not sufficient for children to excel academically 

The task of teaching children and following up their academic achievement on a daily basis is witnessing neglect, shortcoming and perhaps complete absence on the part of many fathers, as they believe that the role of the mother alone is sufficient to be the gateway to the children's superiority.

Despite the mothers' keenness and dedication, they lack the support of their husbands, especially when the children are in the elementary stages, which requires parents to spend a lot of time and effort to help them study.

Sociology and psychology experts affirm that parents are responsible for supporting and making the home-schooling process successful and achieving its desired goals, and that parents are the first and most important teacher for the child.

Experts believe that when parents participate in the education of their children, their level improves academically and they love school.

Fatima Sajwani, the psychological service director in the Sharjah Educational Zone, said that the father and mother should cooperate together to teach the children, according to their scientific background. She considered that it is difficult to imagine that all mothers are educated to the extent that they can follow the different curricula for their children, especially if they are in different stages of study, and here the importance of the participation of the father who fills the shortage or covers aspects that the mother is unable to cover.

► Pursuing the study of children is not only a mother’s task, just like any task in the home, but rather an educational task that requires the integration of roles between spouses.

Sajwani pointed out that it is wrong for anyone who thinks that continuing to study children is one of the mother's tasks only, just like any task at home, but rather it is an educational task that requires the integration of roles between spouses. She explained that raising children is a shared responsibility between the father and mother, each with what he can bear, for example, following up the children in school should be the responsibility of the father, because his personality is stronger in the eyes of his children, and because they fear him more and their behavior is correct in the study. And she added, "Women are more appropriate than men in taking care of proper nutrition and the health system of their children." She stressed the need for parents to be present in the process of following up on their children's educational attainment after school, which leaves them with a sense of commitment.

Sajwani points out that the follow-up of parents to the study of their children has positive dimensions with regard to the educational and psychological aspect, even if this follow-up is limited and in separate periods, it achieves a kind of stability and emotional and psychological balance, as a result of interaction and live participation with children and instilling the principle of compassion and cooperation And respect in treatment, as well as highlighting the active father’s role and influence in the process of following up on the educational attainment of his children, which gives them a sense of pride.

But it is usual for the mother alone to follow up the children’s daily lessons at home, although this responsibility is required of the two partners, and there is no dispute over that, for teaching children is part of the life of both the father and the mother, and they play an active role in helping their children from educational aspect.

Social specialist Lawrence Blake says that the husband’s absence from following up on his children is a bad habit followed by most men in our eastern society. It always makes it the first and last to blame for any malfunction in this system.