Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Kathy Carter
Child Development Online
23 January 2015
Discussion Topics
1.
How do cultural influences shape how children are raised? Culture
influences how children are raised by helping develop social groups, helping a child
understand religion and later helping the child making the decision of living a religious or
non religious life. Culture also exposes a child learn different roles like housekeeping,
work and play, and celebrate certain events and holidays( quinceanera and Day of the
Dead).
3. Mr. Johannsen has definite ideas about how he wants to run his classroom.
He thinks that it is unnecessary that he know anything about his students individual
family situations. How would you respond? I think that Mr. Johannsen is making a
mistake by not thinking it is necessary to know what is going on in a child's family. More
often than not family situations are the reasoning behind a child not excelling in school or
not being present like needed to be. If Mr. Johannsen would care to know what is going
on in his students home life, then he could work with the child to make arrangements for
assignments or help the child get help if needed.
4. Are certain family structures better for development than others? How
does context help to address this question? It depends on the family relationship, the
parernts relationship, and the families well being. For example, Certain family structures
involve caring, loving parents that are very involved in their childrens lives but may not
be financially well off to provide the children with nicer things but the neccecities, and on
the other side of the spectrum a family could be very well off and can afford to buy their
children nicer things but do not have a strong family connection and the children are
acting out or lacking in school because of it.
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6.
Do you think that teachers, caregivers, and after-school supervisors are
being increasingly pressured to act as surrogate parents?