I am an advocate of accumulating good habits, good values through education.
A good education should bring about positive change to the person being educated. We have to ask ourselves these questions, "Is he a better person today than he was a year ago? Is he a better person now than he was yesterday?" "Has change taken place?"
Change does not just happen overnight. There may be changes in your children that you hope happen. There may be certain habits that you hope they can correct. Often times, if you fight for the changes on your own, it can be very painful and a struggle. This is particularly so, when they are teenagers and every word you utter does seem like a "nag", although you barely said it only twice. It can be really exasperating.
Does that mean that there is no hope but to just wait for the change to take place supernaturally? Does it mean that you just let things be? Does it mean that you start blaming yourself for not teaching him or her when he was little and it is now too late? This is all part of parenting pains.
Our children pick up habits when they see us in action. They basically learn their ways from us. Yes, we may have been careless with our words, with the way we have or have not reacted to things and with the way we have handled our emotions. Subtlely, the children pick them up from us.
Besides picking up habits from parents, our children's make-up can also be influenced greatly by the environment we subject them to. When we let them mix with friends who are brand-conscious, they grow to be brand-conscious. When we over-provide for them, they do not know what it is to be in need.
So, how does studying overseas come into the picture? How does it help our children? How does it help us? How does it help the country?
Studying overseas is a very palatable option if you want your children to change for the better. It is as if, you are saving up the hefty tuition dollars and invest in an overseas education which through the journey, your children pick up important values, habits and perspectives. But be careful, you have to choose the right partner to help you with this. You want a very excellent guardian who sincerely wants to see your children succeed. This guardian must appreciate that you want to help your children, but you have your constraints. She must feel your hearbeat and she wants to see your children change for the better. She must fully understands the growing up pains and the parenting pains, a guardian who can be your trusted sub-contractor.
In life, when you find yourself not being able to handle everything all at once, such as your work, your spouse, yourself, your children and their education, learn to outsource. I am not advocating that you let go of parenting. What I am suggesting is, at certain stage in life, by allowing a third party to help you, you are pulling back a little, while being in control of the situtation. Your children will grow fonder of you, they will appreciate your presence even more, they learn that parents are the best gifts God has ever given to them until the day they have their own children.
At Channel Education, we are strict with our students and we train them in developing thrift, in being dependable, in being responsible, in remembering the lesson behind their mistakes, in being resourceful. Our program and curriculum are designed to benefit greatly the students under our care. We absolutely recognize how awesome that responsibilty of being a second parent to the students can be.
So, how do we do it well? We focus on understanding the background of the students, the intricate details of his/her make-up and discharge our duties accordingly. Being Asian, the management specializes in helping parents from the Asia Pacific region. We want our name to be remembered for being different, for being special, for being able to step into your shoes and execute the part of parenting you wish you were better at.
Studying overseas is indeed an excellent option when you find the right partner to hold your children's hands.
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