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Lauren Hendrix

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).

2. Under what conditions is divorce especially troublesome for youngsters (e.g.,


conditions under which divorce is taking place, age of child, gender of child)? Younger
children tend to blame theirselves and bad behavior for their parents divorce. Children
have to learn to deal with not seeing each parent as much, and sadly some children have
to deal with not seeing the other parent for years until the child is considered old enough
to make the decision to see that parent. Although it may seem harder for younger
children, the younger a child is exposed to the divorce the less likely the child is to
experience psychoiological problems later on in life.

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.

5.

What is meant by a good-enough home?

6.
Do you think that teachers, caregivers, and after-school supervisors are
being increasingly pressured to act as surrogate parents?

7. A childs parents are bitter enemies. You want to schedule a parent-teacher


conference. What should you do?

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