A Parent's Role in Education

Nothing helps a child succeed like an involved parent. A little willingness from a
child's parents can work wonders in the classroom. Read on to learn more about
your role as a parent in the education of your child.
Parents want their children to succeed in school, but a parent's role in that
success must not be underestimated. In school as in life, consistent support from
parents is crucial to sustaining a student's confidence and sense of achievement.
Parents play four distinct roles in their child's education: cheerleader, friend,
teacher and enforcer. An understanding of these roles can help you help your
child step up to the challenges of learning.

Be a Cheerleader
Children thrive on encouragement. It's just as important to support a child who
doesn't perform well as it is to congratulate them for success. Real learning is not
based on reward, but on the value your child places on the process itself. It's
important to make something positive out of failure and to teach young learners
this vital skill. Ask your child what they do when they fail at something they're
good at - a missed tackle on the football field for example, or a missed key on the
piano. This will help them to see how important it is to keep trying and it will teach
them to access the skills they already have when faced with new or less
interesting challenges.

Be a Friend
Learning about math and reading isn't the only struggle your child faces in
school. Maybe they're having problems with a teacher, a group of friends, or a
bully on the playground. Sometimes what they really need is someone who is
willing to hear what they're thinking--and that someone should be you.
With nobody to confide in, your child will have extra stress in their life, which can
decrease self-esteem and motivation. Try to recall the struggles of your own
school days. Here's a chance to start fresh and pass along a more positive
experience. Listening respectfully to your child's concerns can be a major
confidence booster all by itself. If you take your child seriously he's more likely to
do the same for their education.

Be a Teacher
You can't just leave it all up to the teacher. Sure, it's their job, but even the best
and brightest can be hard pressed to address the individual needs of every child,
especially in a crowded classroom. Children still need personal attention, so it's
the role of the parent to make sure they get it.
Stay in touch with your child's assignments, tests and ongoing projects. Set aside
time each day to offer help. Be available and enthusiastic; your child needs to
feel like you want to be there and that helping them isn't a chore. Connect with
their teachers regularly to keep up with how things are going in the classroom. If
you find your child needs extra help, be active in getting it, or better yet, work
with them yourself. Tutoring your own children can be rewarding for both of you.

Be the Enforcer
Yes, sometimes you've go to be tough. But there's more to it than just discipline.
Enforce in advance by helping your child set and keep schedules, reach goals
and complete assignments on time. Be respectful. Don't expect your child to
know how to use an assignment pad, or understand a class schedule. They won't
get it right the first time.
Be patient but unwavering with the basics and your student will catch on.
Sometimes you'll have to be strict, but a little firmness each day will teach your
child vital time management skills. This will give them a sense of control and can
help prevent a homework or term paper crisis. Be willing to be the bad guy, but
don't make school or homework seem like a punishment. Think of yourself as the
leader of an expedition, not a jailor. When things get difficult, they'll respect your
authority and see you

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New words Lexical Phonetic Definition Example(s)
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Boost v /buːst/ to help something to

increase, improve, or become
more successful

Jailer n / someone whose job is to

ˈdʒeɪlə(r) guard the people in a prison
so that they do not escape
/

Reflection
This is an a amazing text for any parents to read for both who’ve taught their
children well or not . I myself feel that the topic very clear and the passages are
very informative and useful .

The text guides us not to be too strict , instead of that we are supposed to be
flexible to the children . We are not only the enforcers , the cheerleaders , we are
also the teachers , the friends of our kids . We may be closer to the children to
know them , to understand them , to believe them and make them believe us . It
is the most effective way to let your children grow well in both health and mind .

The points which are mentioned in the passage are totally easy-understanding
and absolutely real in life. You read that ideas and wonder why I haven’t
followed that yet . But it is never too late for all the parents or someone who loves
children to get closer to their childs . Never consider them just the smaller ones ,
be respectful and that is all they need to receive from their parents to become
more confident .
 Creating a Positive Home Learning Environment

Your child needs a special place to call their own. Setting aside a room or nook in
your home dedicated to your child's education will show him or her that your are
serious about their education. Read on to learn more about creating a positive
home learning environment.
Whether your child studies at home every night or spends most evenings in the
library, it's important to provide a workspace of their own where they can go to
study, or just work on something more personal. With a familiar and reliable
place your young learner will have the environment they need to excel in school.

Check Your Inventory!

Set aside a place for your child that he can call his own. That way they won't
have to clear away everything they used when they get to the end of a study
session. While kitchen and dining room tables are great for larger projects, they
aren't so well suited for regular study, since books, pens and scissors get in the
way of the day to day uses of those areas. Set up a place where your child can
settle in and leave papers and pens at hand without having to pack up each
night.
A good, sturdy desk, a comfortable chair and a clear, bright lamp are essential.
Your child should be able to sit for reasonable blocks of time without becoming
fatigued or bleary-eyed. Shelves and drawers are important for organization and
it helps if all the surfaces are easy to clean.

Location, Location, Location

Location is important. Setting up a space in a common area of your home can be
a good idea for some children. It can be lonely and difficult to concentrate with
the sounds of family life going on in the distance. Some children need to feel like
part of the family and work better closer to other people. This also allows you
easier access to you child so you can monitor their progress if you need to. For a
child that thrives in privacy, set aside a corner of their bedroom, but keep it well
separate from distractions like games, music and other hobbies not related to
studying. By keeping the spaces separate in the bedroom, you will ensure that
your child still has a haven they can retreat to when it's time to forget about
school and just be a kid.

Maintain Order
You should encourage your child to spread out as much as is needed during
work time, but to keep some semblance of order and neatness when their area
isn't being used for study. A child who learns to organize their space will carry
organization into every corner of their life
Ground rules about food and drink, games and telephone use and the kinds of
things used to decorate their space with are also a good idea. The workspace
should be personal, but not an extension of the playroom.
Pay attention to the space around the workspace. You can't expect your child to
keep their area neat when the rest of your house isn't. Set the example by
organizing your home in a comfortable, useful way.
A supportive home environment will help enable your child to excel by making
study and productivity part of daily life. Organizing and running your home with
your child's developing life skills in mind will provide the supportive structure and
atmosphere needed for success in the classroom.

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New words Lexical Phonetic Definition Example(s)

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Nook n /nʊk/ a small corner or sheltered We searched every

space nook and cranny of the
house for him.

fatigue n /fəˈtiːɡ/ 1, a feeling of being A child’s sleep

extremely tired, either problems cause
physically or mentally parents fatigue and
unnecessary guilt.
2, a tendency for metal or
wood to break as a result of
too much pressure
Bleary Adj /ˈblɪəri not able to see clearly, for Donna opened a
example because you are bleary eye.
tired or have drunk too much
alcohol
 The world's 5 most powerful brands

The barely 10-year-old Google is the world's most powerful brand, followed by
General Electric and Microsoft, according to a survey conducted by Millward
Brown's BrandZ index. The survey assigned values to various brands based on
their financial strength and consumer sentiment.
1. Google
Google, with a brand value of $66.434 billion, is the world's most powerful brand.
The global search engine giant was started as a research project in January
1996 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two Ph.D students at Stanford University,
California. Google Inc was incorporated on September 7, 1998, at a friend's
garage in Menlo Park, California. The company, known for its innovations and
stupendous growth rate, went public on August 19, 2004.
Page and Brin's search engine was originally called BackRub. The name
'Google' originated from 'googol,' which refers to the number represented by a 1
followed by one-hundred zeros.
Eric E. Schmidt is the CEO of Google, while co-founder Sergey Brin and Larry
page are Technology President and Products President, respectively. The
company is listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the symbol GOOG.
'Google' is now a verb, having found its way into the dictionary. It means 'to use
the Google search engine to obtain information on the Internet.'
2. GE
General Electric's brand value has been estimated at $61.880 billion, making it
the world's second most powerful brand. GE is a giant US multinational, with
headquarters in Fairfield, Connecticut, engaged in technology and services
industries. It is the world's second largest company in terms of market
capitalisation.
The famous inventor Thomas Alva Edison opened a new laboratory in Menlo
Park, New Jersey in 1876, where the incandescent electric lamp was invented.
By 1890, Edison formed the Edison General Electric Company. In 1879, Elihu
Thomson and Edwin J. Houston formed the Thomson-Houston Electric Company
to rival Edison's firm. However, in 1892, both the companies merged to give birth
to the General Electric Company.
GE slowly began to diversify its operations. Today its businesses span
information technology, financial services, industrial technology, aviation,
healthcare, oil and gas, films and entertainment, theme parks, locomotives,
insurance, etc. In India, too, GE's enjoys widespread presence.
Jeffrey Immelt is GE's chairman & CEO; while Keith Sherin is the CFO, and
Robert Wright is GE vice chairman.
3. Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is the world's largest software company, with global annual
revenue of over $44.28 billion. With a brand value of $54.951 billion, it also is the
planet's third most powerful brand.
Bill Gates, the world's richest man, is the executive chairman of the software
giant which he co-founded along with Paul Allen in 1975. On June 25, 1981, the
company was incorporated on August 12, 1981, IBM introduced its personal
computer with Microsoft's 16-bit operating system, MS-DOS 1.0. On Feb 26,
1986, Microsoft moved to corporate campus in Redmond, Washington, and on
March 13, 1986, Microsoft stock went public. On May 22, 1990, Microsoft
launched Windows 3.0.
On November 20, 1985, Microsoft released its first retail version of Microsoft
Windows, originally a graphical extension for its MS-DOS operating system.
Gates is equally admired for his insight and criticised for his business tactics.
Steve Ballmer is the company's CEO, while Ray Ozzie is chief software architect.
Microsoft employs 76,000 people across 102 countries.
4. Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola's brand value has been estimated at $44.134 billion, making it the
world's foruth most powerful brand. Coca-Cola, a carbonated soft drink, was
intended as a patent medicine when it was invented in 1885 by Dr. John Stith
Pemberton in Covington, Georgia. It was then called Pemberton's French Wine
Coca.
Pemberton's partner and bookkeeper, Frank M Robinson, suggested the name
and penned the now famous trademark 'Coca-Cola' in his unique script. Coca-
Cola was bought over by businessman Asa Griggs Candler in 1887 and
incorporated it as the Coca Cola Company in 1892. Griggs made the brand a
force to reckon with through his marketing strategies. Coca-Cola was sold in
bottles for the first time on March 12, 1894.
In 1919, a group of investors headed by Ernest Woodruff and W C Bradley
purchased The Coca-Cola Company for $25 million. Coca-Cola is also the
world's best known brand.
E Neville Isdell is the company's chairman and chief executive officer.
5. China Mobile
China Mobile is the world's 5th most powerful brand with a value of $41.214
billion. China Mobile Communications Corporation, also known as China Mobile
or CMCC, is China's largest mobile phone operator.
It is the world's largest mobile phone operator ranked by number of subscribers,
with over 296 million customers. By turnover it is second to Vodafone, which
owns 3.3% of the China Mobile. A state-owned enterprise, it was spun off from
former monopoly China Telecom in 2000, and now has a 65% share of the highly
 competitive Chinese mobile market. China Mobile is the largest company
registered in Hong Kong.
Wang Jianzhou is the telecom major's chairman and CEO.
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New words Lexical Phonetic Definition Example(s)

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stupendous adj /stjuːˈpendəs/ very impressive, large, a stupendous

or surprising palace/view/film

Aviation n /ˌeɪviˈeɪʃ(ə)n/ the practice of flying

planes

to create something
new based on
Spin off V
something else that
already exists
monopoly n /məˈnɒpəli/ a company that has It is the
complete control of government’s
the product or service intention to break
it provides because it up all monopolies.
is the only company
that provides it
locomotive n /ˌləʊkə the vehicle at the front
ˈməʊtɪv/ of a train that pulls it

Reflection
Do you find it interesting even from the name of the passage . I give you this article
because I realize that this is an informative and amusing one .
Actually , the topic of the article is not really related to the topic but in this case I think it
is cool enough to satisfy you . There are four of five most powerful brand which doing
their business in the technology field . There is no need to wonder why because since
 Net clash for web police projects
Social media activists are up in arms over plans by the UK's police
watchdog for a project with the same name as an existing web initiative.

MyPolice.org was set up in mid-2009 to funnel feedback from victims of crime

and others to police forces.

But Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) has unveiled plans for a
project based around a site called Mypolice.org.uk.

The MyPolice.org founders say they may change their name to avoid confusion.

Force feedback

"This came completely out of the blue," said Lauren Currie, one of the founders
of MyPolice.org.

Ms Currie said she and co-founder Sarah Drummond have been working on
MyPolice.org since the summer of 2009 and were now getting close to launch.

The idea is to use the website as a central point through which to route
messages to police forces about the job they are doing. It will also gather
information about local issues and pass them on to UK forces.

"We are about giving feedback and we want that to result in change," said Ms
Currie. "That's why it's called MyPolice. We are empowering people to make
changes and make their voice heard."

"We have a lot of forces itching to be the pilot," she said adding that people were
bound to be puzzled by a the HMIC launching a different service with the same
name and very similar website.

Confusion was evident even before the HMIC site formally launched.

"It's causing a huge problem," said Ms Currie. Many supporters had got in touch
in reaction to media reports about the launch of MyPolice, she said, only to find
out that the reports were about the HMIC project.

One disgruntled supporter of MyPolice.org has set up a parody website called

MyHMIC.org to collect comments about the clash. Many others have vented their
feelings on micro-blogging service Twitter.
HMIC said its mypolice.org.uk website would be used by members of the public
to find out information about how their local force is performing.

In a statement an HMIC spokesman said: "We spoke with the owners of

www.mypolice.org, and it is clear that we offer very different online products.
Both however aim to improve engagement between the public and their police;
and this is to be applauded.

"We remain very happy to work with www.mypolice.org to offer the best possible
service to the public."

A spokeswoman for HMIC declined a chance to expand on its statement.

Ms Currie said the two projects have discussed the domain name confusion. The
HMIC said it has no plans to change the name of its project nor move it to
another site.

Legal action by MyPolice.org has been ruled out, said Ms Currie. "We don't want
to go down that route," she told the BBC.

A spokesman for Nominet, which oversees the .uk domain, said Mypolice.org
may have a case under its dispute resolution system. Although MyPolice.org
does not own the .uk version it may be able to take it over as HMIC's action could
be rule as "unfair".

However, he warned, each case was judged on its merits and the dispute
resolution might mean HMIC keeps its claim to the .uk domain.
 History of bicycle
Multiple innovators contributed to the history of the bicycle by developing
precursor human-powered vehicles. The documented ancestors of today's
modern bicycle were known as draisines, hobby horses, or push bikes (and
modern bicycles are sometimes still called push bikes outside of North America).
Being the first human means of transport to make use of the two-wheeler
principle, the draisine (or Laufmaschine, "running machine"), invented by the
German Baron Karl von Drais, is regarded as the forerunner of the modern
bicycle. It was introduced by Drais to the public in Mannheim in summer 1817
and in Paris in 1818.[3] Its rider sat astride a wooden frame supported by two in-
line wheels and pushed the vehicle along with his/her feet while steering the front
wheel.
In the early 1860s, Frenchmen Pierre Michaux and Pierre Lallement took
bicycle design in a new direction by adding a mechanical crank drive with pedals
on an enlarged front wheel (the velocipede). Another French inventor by the
name of Douglas Grasso had a failed prototype of Pierre Lallement's bicycle
several years earlier. Several inventions followed using rear wheel drive, the best
known being the rod-driven velocipede by Scotsman Thomas McCall in 1869.
The French creation, made of iron and wood, developed into the "penny-farthing"
(historically known as an "ordinary bicycle", a retronym, since there were then no
other kind).[4] It featured a tubular steel frame on which were mounted wire-
spoked wheels with solid rubber tires. These bicycles were difficult to ride due to
their very high seat and poor weight distribution.
The dwarf ordinary addressed some of these faults by reducing the front wheel
diameter and setting the seat further back. This necessitated the addition of
gearing, effected in a variety of ways, to attain sufficient speed. Having to both
pedal and steer via the front wheel remained a problem. J. K. Starley, J. H.
Lawson, and Shergold solved this problem by introducing the chain drive
(originated by the unsuccessful "bicyclette" of Englishman Henry Lawson),[5]
connecting the frame-mounted pedals to the rear wheel. These models were
known as dwarf safeties, or safety bicycles, for their lower seat height and better
weight distribution. (Although without pneumatic tires the ride of the smaller
wheeled bicycle would be much rougher than that of the larger wheeled variety.)
Starley's 1885 Rover is usually described as the first recognizably modern
bicycle. Soon, the seat tube was added, creating the double-triangle diamond
frame of the modern bike.

Further innovations increased comfort and ushered in a second bicycle craze,

the 1890s' Golden Age of Bicycles. In 1888, Scotsman John Boyd Dunlop
introduced the first practical pneumatic tire, which soon became universal. Soon
after, the rear freewheel was developed, enabling the rider to coast. This
refinement led to the 1898 invention of coaster brakes. Derailleur gears and
hand-operated cable-pull brakes were also developed during these years, but
were only slowly adopted by casual riders. By the turn of the century, cycling
clubs flourished on both sides of the Atlantic, and touring and racing became
widely popular.

Bicycles and horse buggies were the two mainstays of private transportation just
prior to the automobile, and the grading of smooth roads in the late 19th century
was stimulated by the widespread advertising, production, and use of these
devices.
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