Until recently, it was thought that being a parent is a gift/given which naturally comes along with the child’s
birth and which everybody in this situation may successfully fructify. Gradually, due to the challenges of the
contemporary world, we have become aware of the fact that being a parent becomes, significantly, a role which is
learned by resorting to the background of empirical, traditional knowledge, as well as to the science/sciences of
education. Initially, awareness comes from the world of the school, which lacks, for the most part, the parents’
relevant contribution to the effort of achieving successful education. In this respect, the data we have obtained for
O3 highlight the urgent need for training in parenting of primary school teachers. This may be met even through an
optional or elective discipline of Parents’ Education, during the initial training for the didactic career from the
bachelor study programme The Pedagogy of Primary and Preschool Education. Gradually, parents become also
aware of the positive effects of PI, but, for now, in Romania only a small number of these have enough levers to
compatibilize the management of their own material existence with the PI action.
In relation to the finalities of the study, we believe that the research has achieved its goal, allowing for the
identification and hierarchization of a number of 4 factors which influence, according to the primary school
teachers, the degree of (non)involvement of parents in their children’s education (1. teacher – parents
communication; 2. economic aspects; 3. the parents’ beliefs; 4. the child’s age).