Trust Parents: Why Engaged Parents Are Essential in Building LIfelong Learners

At the heart of this talk is the simple truth that parents are the key to a successful education. The secret? You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to help your child succeed. Drawing on a rich set of research, various social sciences studies, and Ethan’s homeschooling story “from coonskin cap to college graduate,” this talk provides a compelling argument for the importance (and power) of trusting parents. Learn practical tips for parental engagement and be encouraged by the evidence that says, “parents you can do it and you can do it well.”

Transcript

1. Trust Parents: Why Engaged Parents are Essential in Building Lifelong Learners
2. Who do you trust?
3. Coonskin Cap to College Grad
4. The Demme Family
5. My Family
6. Trusting Parents is more important now
7. Journal of School Psychology “Regardless of how advanced their education, parental involvement in preschool and kindergarten activities was positively associated with higher academic performance. The more engaged parents were, the better their children performed in school over time ‘with lower rates of grade retention at age 14 (eight grade), and with fewer years in special education.’”
8. “By being engaged, parents significantly improve their children’s language skills, test performance, and school behavior, and motivate them both to achieve more goals and to aspire for higher academic outcomes.” Journal of School Psychology
9. Henderson & Berla “The most accurate predictor of a student’s achievement in school is not income or social status but is family involvement.”
10. Rachel Carson “If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, then he needs the companionship of at lease one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.”
11. Dr. Ben Carson
12. Dr. Ben Carson
13. Abraham Lincoln
14. Amanda Ripley: The Smartest Kids in the World
15. Alexis de Tocqueville Without civic associations, the government would need to become “more skillful and more active in order that society be able to execute what individuals can no longer do.” This would lead to the suffering of the “morality and intelligence of a democratic people.” Only by working together and being actively involved in self-betterment would “sentiments and ideas renew themselves.” - Democracy in America, Book 2, Chapter 5
16. Being an “Expert” in 10,000 hours (plus or minus 10,000 hours) 0 5000 10000 15000 20000 25000 Beginner Novice Master Chess Player 1 Chess Player 2 Chess Player 3
17. Lifelong Learning: Math
18. Lifelong Learning: Reading
19. Lifelong Learning: History
20. Lifelong Learning: Preserving our Freedom
21. #TrustParents – Save the World