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ISSN 2222-1735 (Paper) ISSN 2222-288X (Online)
Vol.7, No.5, 2016
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children’s capabilities and their overall learning capacity which leads them towards succeeding over the learning,
education as a complex process. Therefore, parents should get involved in supporting their children in doing
their homework, as in this way they offer their parental support as one of the key strategies leading towards a
successful education of their children at school. Educational level of children in the family depends more on the
level of the parent’s education, so this factor strongly affects family relationships and the successful
development of children. (Matilov, Naum. 2002)
In order to have good results at school, the parental control over the child needs to be permanent. On
the other hand, in order to have success within the educational activity we are performing with the child, we need
to be familiar with the some rules which are connected to the children physical development and furthermore, a
special focus must be put on the child’s psychological development as well. In the family are functioning these
elements, which are: love, marriage, the care and happiness, elements related to the functioning of life and the
future. (Vukasocic, A. 1994) Children have two main educators in their lives – their parents and their teachers.
Parents are the prime educators until the child attends nursery or starts school and remain a major influence on
their children’s learning through school and beyond. But, mother is always closer to children. (Beqja Hamit,
2002) Parents are their children’s strongest role model and greatest influence. Children always adopt parent’s
values and types of behavior. (Kasapi, Gjylymsere, 2013) However, if parents are a positive influence in their
children’s everyday lives, and most importantly in their everyday education, the future it will be more beautiful
and more successful. (Colanoiq, Vera. 1972)
2. The mother as an educator
Mother is the first and the best teacher- proverb
The family enables children protection in that suggestively that makes parents responsible for their developing
and to make their children grow into a total personality. (Good, 1988) The role of the woman or the mother as
an educator represents a crucial resource to the development of the individual identity, which from researchers is
seen even as more important as the very marital status of the parents and the occupation of the parents
themselves. It seems that the feeling of being a mother, to the woman is more powerful than being a father of
given child for the husband. Always in accordance to the biological as well as physiological relation of mother to
the child, represents the first and reasonable part or segment of the child’s development. This for the reason that
mother assures child’s life, as she is the one who brings the child in this world, and further on she raises them
from being little towards reaching a total independency in mature life.
The mother’s function in this regard, has a very important role which as such may be divided into two
parts or directions: The first one is related to the child’s defense, while the other one to the child’s overall
development. Mother’s protection as a function embeds several types of actions or types of functions. The 1
st
type is connected to the physical protection of the child, which means that the child must be provided healthcare
and hygienic conditions, so that he/she could have a healthy life in a worm home environment in every sense of
the word, including here the ambiance where the child lives, which must be well enlighten, a healthy place which
offers the child to be showered, feed up and taken care in general. The 2
nd
type is the Psychological protection,
which can be reflected through the child’s emotional security and psychological protection, especially in
moments when the child feels it when the mother is next to him i.e. her.
Another group of activities in this regard, are the maternal functions regarding the child’s development
involving here the physical development, the intellectual development as well as the emotional development of
the child. (Grancic, Radovan, 2006)
Each child which grows up and is educated in the presence of mother, for sure is expected to reach an
appropriate physical, psychological as well as social development. In this regard, these children have a much
better appearance, the look happy and they enjoy the childhood in general. They are communicative and as such
they are ready to cooperate. (Brada, Riza. 1995)
For this reason, mother’s love and care to the child, is full and well completed, and as such is often
accepted by other members of the very family. This type of cultivated love and affection can be qualified as a
key condition for an appropriate development of the children in a given family. The children experience the
physical as well as psychological effects of the mother, and as such they are taken as model which influences
their further development during their emotional stage of development of their moral values as whole. This
element of the so called child’s identification, the child embeds it in his/her personality for years on and on,
throughout his/her total lifespan. It is planted in their character as well as temperament, and as such it is reflected
through his/ her attitudes and thoughts in interaction or behavior comportment with the society in general.
Almost all culture have developed arrangements which enable mothers to provide for basic child care while
maintaining other duties that are instrumental to family well – being. (James, Garbarino. 1982)
However, depending on the economic, social as well as emotional limitations, mothers, nowadays have
a variety of opportunities to be able to reach or make real their mother’s role, which helps the child’s overall
development and enables mothers to enjoy the fact of being mother. The modern experiences, show quite