A simple question to parents

A lot of times parents rage into the school principal complaining about why their kids got a C on conduct or being called for a meeting because of their children's misbehavior.  They would burst into anger that they would say that teachers have been mistaken about their children because their children are so tame at home, they are very behaved and their kids couldn't hurt a fly.

So with this, teachers are placed on a hot seat, ending up teachers being confused as to whether they should report a developing misbehavior about their students or just let it go.

With this, I have some few questions for parents.

PARENTS... Do you behave, act, or speak in front of your family the same way in front of your friends?

If your answer is NO... then there is your answer when we, TEACHERS, call you for your child's misbehavior at school.


More often than not, parents are the ones who teach their children to be hypocrites, to hide who they really are, to wear a mask on their faces because they set too much standards for their children, they overlook at how their kids behave with other people because all they look at is how they behave in front of them.  They pretend that they know their kids enough to judge the people around them that they are wrong about their kids.

Have you seen your children play with their friends on a normal pay time?  Have you heard your children speak with their friends over the phone or a regular get together?

Think again.  Have I spent enough time with my kids that I know who are the people they go with when they are not inside the house or I am too busy with my work to know details of the people they go with? Have I talk to my kids enough that I have heard of the things my kids want to express today or I am too busy to even listen to what made them unhappy today?  Have I accepted my childrens' teachers meeting time that I know how my kids do at school or I am too busy with my circle of friends?  Have I listened to my childrens' teacher as to how they behave at school or I am too busy to listen to my childrens' teacher because I know my children?


So PULEAAASE before you rage to our boss that you can't believe your child did this or that, THINK again and assess yourselves: Have I known my child enough?