THE ROLE OF FAMILY IN THE STUDENTS SUCCESS IN SCHOOL

Abstract

Family is a vital factor in an adequate upbringing and development of children especially in their early age, when a child’s world is concentrated solely on the family, when his interests, views, desires and needs are connected to the narrow surrounding represented by his closest relatives. In this small community the child gets his first experiences about people, mutual interrelations and life in general. Family has a vital role in the process of education and upbringing and has an important impact upon child’s success in school. Family is the first and essential factor of immense significance in upbringing and education of young people. Upbringing in the family takes place gradually and discreetly before the child is even born. The child experiences his first social contacts in the family, the first interpersonal relations, experiences the psychological values of these relations, the family represents the child’s first image of the world and the first ideas of interpersonal relations and the logic of social relations. The family is a place where child finds understanding, security, guidance and love that help bonding between parents and children. Emotional aspect of a personality is developed and stabilised within the family as well as the basic structure of apersonality as a whole, foundations are set up for a person’s attitude towards the outside world and, we must not forget, the family sets the bases of a child’s aesthetic, working and moral culture. In one’s life parents are always the first teachers. They represent the role models in child’s relation towards others, in the manner in which they tend to solve the problems, in a speech manner or general habits etc. First and the basic step in the process of upbringing is home, therefore it is extremely important for the entire process. Cooperation between parents and school is thus essential, family has to help the school and likewise the school must offer a support and assistance to parents in their upbringing efforts. How child spends leisure time at home, how he completes his tasks, the manner in which he adjusts within the family and how he relates with mother, father, brothers or sisters and other adults in general – all this is of vital relevance to the upbringing process.