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would know because I was one of those kids, my parents divorced when I was around 5 years old and I didn’t notice how it had taken effect on my life until I was old enough to understand why my parents divorced. The constant back and forth about court dates and being reminded about past situation was never what I envisioned a child would have to go through but I didn’t mind it at that time. The best part for me about court dates was having both of my parents in one room with one focus and that…

Single Parent Households vs Two Parent Households: The Difficulties of Raising Children A single parent is defined as raising a child or children household without the presence of the other biological party. Single parenting includes single father families, as well as, single mother families. According to Justin Healy who wrote Single Parent families in 2013, Mother’s can’t teach a young man how to be a man and father’s can’t teach a young lady how to conduct herself as a woman. Putting single…

that it is important for teachers to communicate with all parents, regardless of their socioeconomic statues. Teachers should always start the communications by mentioning positive things about the student. If the teachers focus on the negatives, the parents will feel that their children are failures. At the same time, teachers should communicate in a way that the parents do not feel as inferior beings. As mentioned in the reading, all parents hold big expectations for the role that schools…

author of “The Undercover Parent,” believes that parents should put spyware on their children’s computers to protect them from the dangers of the internet. Spyware is software that you can download onto any computer that allows you to to monitor everything that your child is doing on that computer. I agree with Coben that parents should monitor their children’s internet use; however, I don’t agree that they should use spyware to do so because it is an invasion of privacy. Parents should monitor…

As a child my parents were very involved in my school life. My mother was raised in a family focused on work. Homework and school came after tending to the animals and house work. She barely passed high school and never wanted that to happen to me. On the other hand my Dad came from a stereotypical Asian family. School was extremely important and anything lower than an A was unacceptable. It was difficult at times, having one parent involvement in my schoolwork and the other settling with a C…

they are his “foster parents”. The term foster parents means nothing to him at the time because he is terrified, alone, and worried about his own parents. He may have siblings that, despite the best efforts from social workers, weren’t able to be placed with him. Suddenly, he is taken in, cleaned up, given fresh clothes, and a warm bed to sleep in. Over the next several weeks or months, his foster…

believe that is crucial for students to feel motivated and engage during learning. Furthermore, I believe parent involvement is the key for children success. The gift of arts is a powerful tool to share with parents about how the arts can help students to academically succeed. I chose, # 4 critical thinking, #11 Commitment/interest and #13 confidence, as the most important to share with parents as powerful reasons for teaching the arts. The gifts of the arts #4 Critical thinking According to…

school success is how actively involved their parents are in their education (Christiansen, K., Schneider, B., & Butler, D. (2011).” When parents are involved there are so many positive outcomes. I want to make sure that I help parents to be involved in the best ways that I can. Some ways that I believe can help parents that I will work with to be involved and stay involved is by: Taking the time Time is very important in people’s lives including the parents that I will work with. If I take the…

interviewing two different parents, they are the parents of a teenage girl and a young boy; with very different age groups. How old and what gender are your children? Parent Interviewee #1 has a 16-year-old girl Parent Interviewee # 2 has a 3-year-old son and 13-year-old son. How do you expect your children (child) to act toward you? Toward other children? (Ask for examples) Interviewee # 1 stated that the expectation of her 16-year-old daughter is that she respects her parents. She is very…

Up to the point after reflection 2, we continue to study about parent-preschoolers interaction as we stop at the childhood obesity. After learning about parent-preschoolers interaction, we continue learning and discussed on a topic about parent and their school aged children. Not just that, we also learn the topic on parent-adolescent interaction. After we finished our discussion about childhood obesity, we continue and start our discussion on the development of gross and fine motor skills of…