An inseparable couple: family and school, teaming up.

Call it a couple, marriage or dyad, the family and the school must be a team, since between them, it is located, the child, the student, the son, who is the subject of education and training. From different perspectives, angles, activities, approaches and tasks, both microsystems share the same mission: to train good and competent citizens. Starting from this idea, good practices have their beginning, where the future citizen is received and captures the first educational messages, that is, within the family and the school, so that a climate of tolerance, participation and respect becomes imperative. . Nowadays we are dad and mom, in a different way than our parents were, it is very true that at our fingertips, on our mobile phones, we have a world of information in relation to the subject, but it is so much material, that in some Sometimes it leads to more confusion, that is why the face-to-face accompaniment, nothing replaces it.

To fulfill in the best way, with the mission of training and educating, there is a need, not for a few families, to receive guidance support that responds to their parents' responsibility. It is true that there are exceptions of parental figures that do not adequately meet the needs of their children, the causes should be analyzed from different perspectives, but it is not the issue that concerns us in this article, today we think of parents who have all the provision, but sometimes they do not know how to do it, for this group in which we are many, the offer of a family orientation that is based in the children's own school is one of the most effective and successful strategies to make team and community: “ School for parents".

This concept implies and brings to reflection a particular question: Is it studied to be parents? Is it a profession?

If we relativize the term of professionalizing and going a little beyond the meaning in the dictionary, we can not only take it to the professions as such and think about it, as it is: “try to do your best, whatever you do”, and if you at this time, among other things, are dad or mom, why shouldn't you give yourself the opportunity to go through this process of knowledge and growth, accompanied by experts, who can give you tools as you do to any other area of your life ?, which is usually the professional, to which we invest a lot of time and effort. Why not dedicate a part of our time to doing something that motivates us and that perhaps is more important and satisfying than other aspects of our life? Being parents.

Being parents is a second chance, a second round to reflect, how you were raised, what you liked a lot and what not so much, training as parents, is constructive and positive, because it is a way to give our children what the citizens need that the world needs to do them, this thinking about the future, but in the immediacy, there are also many benefits and implications that families are trained and prepared more to be parents, because in the daily coexistence that Children and adolescents have with the rest of their peers, the dynamics and interrelations, are permeated and framed in what we as parents teach: "Do not join that person", "That child is bad influence", "Defend yourself! Return the blow”, etc. They are examples of phrases that come from home but have a negative impact on the school climate that children experience daily. We firmly believe that these types of situations are not badly intentioned and that they come from families that have a concern, not only valid, but legitimate to want to know how to do it in the best way.

And the best way to prevent violence outside families is to do it within them, through models of family democratization, which promote respect among members of this one. The vision is to prevent more than to attend and if parents knew how to do it, they would certainly do it.

“School for parents ISQ”

It is a family training space, which responds to a common project, to a shared goal: our children and adolescents. Framed in a fundamentally preventive proposal, it guides families on relevant issues to strengthen positive parenting practices, which in turn respond to and contribute to the culture of peace and citizenship, one of the key objectives of the 2030 agenda of UNESCO, goals to which from different angles, in the ISQ Seguro(Secure) program, we will articulate for its achievement, one of those edges: families.

The urgent task, in the light of what has been said, will be to establish commitments for sustainable school and family participation. If we want to generate good educational practices, which truly favor children and adolescents, we cannot do it on separate paths, in the absence of a culture of joint action, as families it is appropriate to coordinate and schedule the time to take advantage of the training spaces that ISQ Seguro and the APF will offer for you during this school year, we will create networks, community, the ISQ school for parents, it is one of the most efficient ways and that has the most impact for group life.

Stay tuned for all conferences, workshops and other activities that we have scheduled for ISQ families.

The first conference for you families: Friday, October 25 9:00 a.m.

If you have more questions or suggestions write to me at isq.seguro@isq.edu.mx

Psic. Alejandra Morales Arroyo