As a father, I’ve always loved the back to school season because you need to buy your children everything new and they are very excited. Sharing that happiness with our children is something special.

To see your son dressing for his first day of school creates a lot of emotion. Unfortunately I could not do that a lot with my children as they grew up because when classes started I was usually working, playing ball. My wife is the one who performed a lot of those tasks.

Having new classmates, a new teacher, going to a higher grade and feeling big is something very exciting for any child. But there are also cases in which children are on vacation, do not want to go back to classes, because they do not want to wake up early to go to school. As a father you have to handle both situations.

Our children’s education is something fundamental for their lives, for their future and their community, their city, and their country. Parents have to make sure their children receive the best possible teaching, because that is the only thing left as a heritage.

That’s why parents are asked to get involved in their children’s school life. Working along with your children’s teachers must be done with love, and without pushing children to go to school because they have to go. We must explain to them the value of education, that this is something important for their future, so later they are not poor people but rich intellectually, and not in the streets loitering as ignorant people.

The state must help as well in this, because there is nothing more important for a country, even more if it is a first world country, than its people’s education, especially in ...