Benefits to Parents of Good Home–School Interaction As teacher or caregiver, you will quickly learn that there are parents who check in with you daily and are interested in knowing about everything that is going on. There will also be parents who avoid coming in at all. And then, perhaps, the largest group will be […]
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Benefits to Children of Good Home–School Interaction According to NAEYC, “Children are the ones who benefit most from healthy, reciprocal relationships between teachers and families” (NAEYC, n.d., p. 9). When young children know that their parents are actively and contentedly involved in their school or center experience, they are most likely to feel comfortable in
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Being a Teen Mother and Single As I reflect back and move forward, there is no doubt that I was a troubled teen. Upon graduation from high school, I found out I was pregnant. What were my options? What would my life hold for my child and me? As a young indigenous working-class woman,
What would my life hold for my child and me? Being a Teen Mother and Single As I reflect back and move forward, there is no doubt that I was a troubled teen. Upon graduation from high school, I found out I was pregnant. What were my options? What would my life hold for
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Being a Teen Mother and Single As I reflect back and move forward, there is no doubt that I was a troubled teen. Upon graduation from high school, I found out I was pregnant. What were my options? What would my life hold for my child and me? As a young indigenous working-class woman,
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Being a Teen Mother and Single As I reflect back and move forward, there is no doubt that I was a troubled teen. Upon graduation from high school, I found out I was pregnant. What were my options? What would my life hold for my child and me? As a young indigenous working-class woman,
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can be tempting to think that there is a “traditional” family model that includes two biological parents, two sets of biologi- cal grandparents who live nearby, and perhaps assorted other relatives who will be responsible for stepping in if emergencies arise. Such a configuration of family may have been common at one time (or perhaps
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Family living arrangements for children ages 0–17 100 80 60 40 20 0 Two parents (69%) One parent (27%) No parents (4%) Two biological/adoptive cohabiting parents One biological/adoptive parent and stepparent Two biological/ adoptive married parents Single mother Single mother with cohabiting partner Single father Single father with cohabiting partner Pe rcent Grandparent Foster
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Parents, and Other Significant Players, as Partners CHAPTER 8 I t can be tempting to think that there is a “traditional” family model that includes two biological parents, two sets of biologi- cal grandparents who live nearby, and perhaps assorted other relatives who will be responsible for stepping in if emergencies arise. Such
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The ecological systems model Microsystem Child M e sosytem Exosystem M a crosystem Bronfenbrenner’s original ecological systems model included increasingly distant influences on individual development. In recent years, the influences of biology and the passage of time were added. Source: Adapted from Bronfenbrenner, U. (1975). Influences on human development. New York: Holt,
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