It really is just that simple a task for any half-witted *adult.*
Kids do best with established, clear-cut boundaries and consequences. And kids fall through the cracks when teachers AND PARENTS fail to guide them properly through the (complex for a child) course of it all.
As parents and teachers, a simple, prescribed and successful formula helps nip problems IN THE BUD. It also helps classrooms run more orderly, efficently, positively, and productively.
And if either one of those two authority/nurturing *charges* (teacher and parent) are ill-equiped to handle any of it--age-appropriately--you end up with screwed-up or beaten-down kids-to-adults...every time.
And just for the record, I abhore "helicopter" parenting. It's self-puffery, a crutch, and an abdication of the parental side of the education (and socialization process) of a child.
Running interference for your child is more about the parent's self-satistying social and intellectual short-comings and appearances--living them vicariously through their child--NOT about the good of the child for the *child's* sake.
As a hovercraft parent, you're setting your child up for certain failure in SO many realms of the real world...and in my book it all falls squarely under "first do no harm."
This Tucson teacher would be reminded to hold up *her* end of the contract as a professional educator in the *elementary* schooling process and to...
first do no harm.
Misspelled efficiently.
ROTFLMAO!!!