Love Your Kids, They'll Be Successful

The key to a raising a successful student is to have parents who love each other. Now that might sound like quite a controversial statement, but I will say it anyway… This is not the only key to raising a successful student, but with my 15 years of teaching experience, I can honestly say I think it is one the of the top 5 key factors. If every reader was honest, you would be able to find one way to agree with me, but you are probably wanting me to give a few details to explain my theory, so here we go.

Kids whose parents love each other:
1. Support each other while raising the kids and present a “unified force.”
2. Work together for discipline and “balance each other.”
3. Work together helping kids to do homework and make sure study time happens
4. Show that teamwork in life, as well as school projects, is effective
5. Coordinate to make sure that one parent is there for school activities and make their child feel like school is important
6. Are better able to save for college because they are most likely in a dual income family
7. Are more focused on their lives and the kids’ lives rather than trying to create a new one
8. Are not competing for love from the kids so the kids are not “playing any games”

My theory centers around the idea that if a mother and father love each other, either as friends or as a married couple, they will take more time to raise their kids and focus on what is important. However there are always exceptions to the rules. I have met some really fantastic single parents, and I could list what they have done to make sure the kids’ lives are great as well… but that is a different post.