Sibling duos

Somethings are a blessing in disguise, and it took me awhile to realize that my six year old brother needing emergency surgery on his appendix brought my family closer together. I remember coming home from school on a wednesday night mad at my mom for not letting me go and get chinese with my friends after school. She told me that I needed to come home right after school. I had seriously considered going anyways. My mom has a part time job so I knew she would be home around four, leaving me…

Do you know what your child, little brother, or baby cousin is doing on the internet? Not many people do. My little sister has me blocked from all of her social media accounts because she wants her “privacy” at twelve years old. From personal experience I can vouch for the internet being a very unsafe place for children. I believe that young children should not be allowed unsupervised internet use freely. The internet is something easily accessible now. You carry it with you on your phone…

the first born child. I became an aunt at the tender age of ten. I then was familiar with how to care for children. John was adopted at seven years old. His sister was adopted two years previously by a different family, separating the biological siblings. I met then fell in love with John at twenty and have not looked back since. I have had the ability to learn some information on the adoption process from his experiences. Although, we never expected to have children until we were married. We…

Children growing up in homes where both parents work, or a single parent home, and the parent has to work, often leaves kids raising themselves and often their younger siblings. As I began to look into research about, as I known it growing up, “latch key” kids, I found it interesting that with most searches, uninvolved parenting also brought up neglectful parenting. Are the youth of today being neglected, left to raise themselves, pushed into growing up too fast, or is it that in today’s…

that younger siblings’ like taking risks is why I agree with what Kluger has to say regarding the birth order. First of all, it is said that firstborns are more intelligent than any of the other siblings. Research has been shown that the eldest siblings are known to be smarter. For example,…

necessarily not be a good thing for my mother, or my father. Today is the day you learn how I Natalie Turner got grounded for the first time. As I woke up and walked into the bathroom to brush my teeth, I realized that once again one of my wonderful siblings had squeezed the toothpaste all over the counter. As I rolled my eyes…

overall happiness level created in response to each option will help determine which course of action to take. The upside to the sisters staying together would be their continued support of one another. Research indicates “that maintenance of the sibling bond is crucial to child development and adjustment, especially for children who are separated from the only homes and parents they have ever known and are placed in unfamiliar…

What I’ve learned about families whose children have special needs The most valuable information I’ve taken away from this course is to stop feeding into my fears and just asks the questions. Taking the risk to ask the families whose children have special needs will open the pathway to many opportunities: bridging the families relationship with the school, creating an open dialog between both parties, and knowing what resources the families or students may need. This semester I came to realize…

family has stayed together and worked through these events the best that we could have. From the time I was a young girl, my grandmother was very ill. She was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, and the prognosis did not look the best. Of my mother’s siblings, my mom was the only one, even remotely close to being able to help out my grandma. My mom’s twin lived three hours away, her younger sister was in and out of apartments and jobs, and her brother was getting in trouble with the law, constantly…

In the online simulation of My Virtual Life, I made critical decisions throughout a child’s development to ensure healthy motor, cognitive, and social skills. Also through this program, I learned the attitudes and behaviors I expose my child to at the beginning of development will greatly influence the personal attitudes and behaviors expressed by my child in later development. The exposure to the product of certain situations allows me, as a parent, to acquire useful skills I would have not…