May 8th, 2019

        Without a doubt, parents influence young people the most and are responsible for their empowerment or lack thereof. I notice that in cases where guidance and education have been positive since childhood on the family’s part – stimulating, accepting, constructive… – the arrival to adolescence has a greater guarantee of success. 

As an educator, I have an added difficulty when it comes to convincing and attending a person who has been negatively influenced at home. Making the person in front of me capable of identifying their positive features that would help them move forward, which

they have never seen because their family has not encouraged them, is difficult.

These are factors that allow you to be resilient and overcome life’s difficulties. If there is no parallel work from home; if they resort to criticism, name-tags or prejudice; if a role is established and the message “you started getting bad grades when you were 10 so  you’re a bad student” is repeated, the result is that the young person perpetuates this role that is expected of them, since it is the message that their parents are unconsciously giving them.

These situations are a challenge that, as an educator, I often encounter.