What Is The Environment Interdependent?

Parents, teachers, caretakers, and other adults influence children every day. They help the child reach milestones and learn to do things for themselves or help an adult do something for the child. While developing, the child is also an active influencer of his or her environment. This means that the child teaches the adults as well. That is not to say that the child is teaching the parent to solve mathematic problems, but rather the child is teaching the parent how to best care for him or her. Furthermore, the child will alter the adults’ landscape in one way or another meaning that the child and environment are interdependent. The idea of interdependence explains why a child may act completely different depending on where or with whom he …show more content…
However, transactions and interdependence certainly pertain to children with disorders. A child that with autism spectrum disorder may be more comfortable around an adult who knows him or her better. This is because the adult who knows her or him better will have had more transactions with her or him, thus he or she will be able to communicate successfully with the adult. Furthermore, a child on the edge of having a disorder who is given support by a parent or caretaker will become more confident in his or her ability. His or her self-confidence and support of parents and community make up the protective triad which as the name suggests protects children. However, interdependence can also cause repercussions if the environment the child is in is damaging to the child or others. For instance, a child who is abused and loathed by his parents may come to loath himself and begin to bully other children because that’s what his parents’ have taught