“The school cannot be the second home without the family being the first school”, says Rossandro Klinjey, ambassador and co-founder of Educa, Infanzia’s socio-emotional education program. According to the psychologist, the family is an important point of support in the development of the child’s well-being and socio-emotional skills.

For us, from Infância, establishing good relations between school and family is essential to provide a full education of children and young people, with regard to the development of social, emotional and moral skills.

A lot is heard about well being. A person’s well-being is made up of both their feelings and the way they age, being more complex than simply their level of happiness.

The complex nature of children’s and youth well-being requires educators to adopt a multidimensional approach. That consider the affinity of the little ones with peers and teachers, the feeling of belonging to the school community, the motivation, the sense of purpose and the way in which they experience positive and negative emotions.

The school is, par excellence, a meeting place. Encounter with the other and encounter with yourself. After the home and the family, which are primary socialization spaces in a child’s life, the school is the great agent that fosters coexistence, promoting contact with what is different and enabling different experiences from those that are usually lived at home.

To provide well-being it is necessary to cultivate a warm and close school community that promotes relationships between children and adults based on respect and support. Feeling kinship with others is a fundamental psychological need and contributes to well-being.

Providing students with opportunities to help each other can also facilitate the creation of a caring community, making the school a welcoming and safe environment. Where they want to be.

We constantly hold meetings between the family and the school. The aim is to strengthen our bonds and exchange – in a dialogical way – about the conception of education and childhood that we have and with which we work.

A quality education presupposes family and school looking in the same direction and sharing the same education project. It includes theoretical and practical knowledge, principles, values ​​and attitudes, which will guide the lives of children and young people.

In this sense, the family is fundamental in the process of respect, partnership and construction of a common good.