Rebuilding the Parent-Teacher Partnership (Part 2 of 3)
In Part 1 (last week), we looked at the need for parents and teachers to discuss how children will behave well, not how to punish them when they don’t. Now, let’s be specific. Because today’s discipline focuses on incidents, parents consistently make comments to teachers such as, "If he does anything wrong, I want to hear about it." They say this because they think this is what it means to show support for teachers. In actual fact, there is no way they want to hear about every little incident which occurs during the day.
To move away from this paralyzing emphasis on incidents, change this comment to, "If there is anything you need me to work on at home, please let me know." This one change creates an extraordinary shift in the parent-teacher relationship - from negative to positive.
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