Parents get stuck in [IrishTimes]
- Published: 13 September 2011
Parental involvement in children’s education is not about ‘helping’ them create amazing art projects, but more about your attitude to their education, writes SHEILA WAYMAN
FEW THINGS make me feel more inadequate as a parent than when one of the children arrives home from school with an arts and crafts project for homework.
More than 30 years on, I still carry the mental scar of my art teacher’s verdict in an end-of-term school report: “Talent is limited.” It is no surprise, then, that as an adult I have never been a dab hand at transforming cereal boxes and yogurt cartons into 21st-century robots, with the artful use of tinfoil and glitter glue.
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