Concerning middle class children Lareau found them to exhibited a developing “sense of entitlement” (Lareau 35) regardless or race. “They acted as though they had a right to pursue their own individual preferences and to actively manage interactions in institutional settings” (Lareau 36). For example, Alexander Williams, one of the participants in the study, knew how to get the doctor to listen to his concerns because his mother explicitly trained and encouraged him to speak up with doctor (Lareau 36). Lareau also mentioned that middle class children learn how to make the rules work in their favor because they have practice doing this at home, where negotiation and reasoning is stressed (Lareau 6). By contrast, working-class and poor children
