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Are lifestyle choices a factor in our children failing at school?

By: Judith Cuddihy


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A recent study in the United Kingdom shows that more and more of our children are leaving school without even the basic reading and writing skills. This is a very important issue at the moment and more studies are needed to find out how and why this situation has happened and what can be done to reverse it.

It is very difficult to just blame certain individuals or organisations but it must be down to one or a few different combinations of the following.

1: The Government: 2: The Schools: 3: The Parents: 4: Lifestyle Choices:

Can any one thing from the above four be solely responsible for our children's education or is it a combination of them all?

The government has a responsibility to provide each and every school with the necessary funding, so are they coming up short on this? Are the examinations becoming easier so that more teachers are becoming qualified without all the required skills needed?

The schools themselves also have to take part of the blame as are they using their funding wisely? Are they employing teachers that just do not come up to scratch? Is it an issue of class discipline? In my opinion discipline in the classroom is a big issue as the whole problem seems to have come about since the government banned teachers from disciplining children in the classroom, could this one thing be THE link as to why our children are failing in basic reading and writing skills?

Parents too have to take partial blame,obviously there are parents around that do not give a damn whether or not their child leaves school with the necessary reading & writing skills or not but the majority of them do. "A long time ago" when we had the "traditional family", dad went out to work and mum stayed home to look after house and home and people generally had more time for their children, ate meals together, bedtime stories and so on. Today this has all changed with quite a lot of families having to have both parents going out to work just to make ends meet and thus not being able to give their children the time that we used to be able to do a few years ago.

Lastly we have "Lifestyle Choices", how can this affect a child's education? Well, we now live in the "computer age" where the majority of children now have access to all sorts of wonderful "gadgets", play stations, computer games, ipods, mobile phones etc. Whatever happened to the old traditional books & bedtime stories? In my opinion Lifestyle Issues play a major part in our children's education, there are just not enough children today that pick up a book and go off for an hour or so to read, sad but true.

Can this trend be reversed? Only time will tell but ultimately it must be down to every parent in the country to want better for their children and make every effort to spend more time with their child and encourage more reading especially in their early years.

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Judith Cuddihy has an Honours degree in adult nursing and has a keen interest in children's development and makes her own range of children's Personalised Books Judith's Childrens Books are made in house and can be sent worlwide.



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