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Parents involvement: motivating children study skills

Psychologists have been requested to offer parents guidance, regarding the influence of their attitudes on their children academic performance. Both school and family are considered important institutions for the children socialization and education, and there are positive effects on the parents' involvement in academic life of their children. The parents guidance should avoid behavioral problems, providing parents participation on their children academic activities through motivation and feedback, that implies children assistance and monitoring of their daily activities and academic process. The parents involvement with their children academic life must be motivated as it can provide benefits to academic success/led to the academic success. Guidelines focused on the development of learning facilitating behaviors were the purpose of this present study in order to promote an achieve parents participation on their children academic life.

children; parents; educational counseling; family relation; reading habits


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