Family is an indispensable and necessary element of education, and requires multidisciplinary and permanent attention since it is where emotional ties and social norms are established, which will be the fundamental pillars that characterise citizens living together and interacting within society.

The current debate, which tries to explain the responsibility between teachers and parents as regards education, shows us the urgent need to develop joint education strategies with which to train future citizens in the necessary norms, values and guidelines for coexistence in a fair and democratic society.

From our experience working with families, we can affirm that parents as well as teachers are asking for spaces for communication and education, so as to face the educational challenges that they children and students demand of them, throughout life, but especially in the teenage years.

This is why “Family Schools” have been allowed to develop classes where adults can exchange ideas and experiences to be used active tools that provide parents with the knowledge and skills to deal with the maturing of their children at various points in the life cycle.

Some of what is learnt is related to the bringing up of children and the coercive exchanges between parents and children (younger children or teenagers) that can lead to antisocial, negative or aggressive behaviour.

The Family School works to achieve the following objective:

• To promote “the family” as the primary group of socialisation, which facilitates the identification of doubts and possible difficulties that children have with education.
• To provide the family with educational resources that promote coexistence and respect.
• Strengthen the communication between parents and teachers as a joint education strategy that favours social adaptation in the school environment.