Analysis Of To My Children's Children

There are No Children Here, by Alex Kotlowitz, tells a story about the family of LaJoe and Paul Rivers. The book focuses on Lafayette and Pharaoh, two of the younger children in the family, and their interactions with each other, the neighborhood, their family, their friends, and the police. Following the family over three years shows the importance of neighborhood factors when it comes to crime. According to Sampson and Groves (1989), social disorganization refers to “the inability of a community structure to realize the common values of its residents and maintain effective social controls”. Many aspects in the book exemplify how neighborhood factors, social controls, and community factors have impacts on crime. The book exemplifies how neighborhood disadvantage can lead to informal social controls, which in turn produces crime. Due to these factors, social disorganization is the best theory to explain the crime that occurs in There are No Children Here.

The book “There Are No Children Here” by Alex Kotlowitz details the challenges two young boy’s face by being raised in the inner city housing project (Henry Horner Homes). These challenges stem from racism, discrimination, the social construction of reality, social location, social class, and the deviance theory, which is due to their location and influences at which causes many youths to lead a life of crime. The book focuses on the Conflict and Symbolic Interaction theories of sociology. What is the true cause of their struggle? Is it the run down housing, lack of education, race, gangs, violence and drugs? I think that all of these play a part into their everyday

When children that live in poverty are in the school, the school system automatically labels these

“Chapter 5: Community” of Robert Putnam’s Our Kids deals with growing opportunity gap within American communities. Inequality and class segregation are major factors when honing in on communities. Families with more wealth have more resources and are better able to shield their children from stress and the hardships of life. Eleanor and Madeline went through some tough times between the divorce of their parents and their father’s depression. But, the resources found in the well-off Lower Merion Township allowed the girls to still do very well compared to other children in nearby towns. Prosperous and educated parents enjoy the benefits of “weak ties” (198), which are acquaintances in different social niches such as psychiatrists, friends of

The student I focused on for this child art analysis report is an eleven-year-old male, and his name is Rustin. Rustin is in the fifth grade and currently resides in Smyrna, Ga with his father, mother, younger sister, and his pet cat. Both of Rustin’s parents are English speaking Caucasians that were born and raised in Georgia. Rustin is an older brother to his five-year-old sister, and they are both Caucasian and speak English. My student’s living environment consists of a two-parent household in a middle class neighborhood in Smyrna. Rustin’s parents both work full time but are able to stay very involved in their children’s lives. The student remains very active through sports teams such as soccer and tennis. Rustin is an extremely bright

After reading chapter one it made me take a direct look at my parenting , communication with my children . I am single mom of three wonderful girls who mean the world to me. While raising children can be a joyful exciting time I find discipline to be a grey area in my life . Mainly due to the fact I have a child with triple chromosome syndrome who suffers from behavioral issues . As I read the passages I instantly begin to question the direct outcome that my parenting will have on their adulthood life . The passages lead to many questions on how to maintain a humanistic approcach to parenting that wont have my children feeling smothered with discipline . But in fact

Aurora levins Morales’s poem, “Childs of America tackles the complex issue of social diversity in the United States, a country made up of immigrants. Specially, it explores an American with a family tree that reaches all around the world. Morales describes how the rich cultural diversity of the American people are an important similarity with many other diverse nations.

"The lessons of discipline and Grace," had the biggest impact on me. My parents did not follow these steps at all and the man is correct. Watching my parents raise my youngest sibling I have no words of wisdom for them. She is (out of control). Although she is sixteen years old she is always making bad decisions. My parents have always been strict and hovering over her and make it seem like that is not going to come to an end following the video over "The child connection."

In My Children, Zhu Ziqing shows his view of life amidst the non-tranquility of both society and his family. I am surprised at Zhu Ziqing’s boldness and blunt honesty when he mentions how he used to treat his children, ways that I don’t agree with, but could understand. Zhu Ziqing refers to a poem that stated how the poor had to “live with constant reunions and separations.” Zhu Ziqing must have faced a lot of pressures from society and home since he had to raise five children. He mentions how he uses “traditional ways” to deal with his children. From this, I can tell that in ancient and imperial China, parents think it is sometimes necessary for them to physically beat their children in order to better instruct them. This reminds me of the

In order for MeadowBrook Weekday Education to administer prescribed medication, parents MUST provide a written permission slip indicating amount of medicine, frequency and time of last dosage given. The child’s name and medicine expiration date must also be on all prescribed medications. For this purpose, medication forms are available in the office to be filled out by parents according to a physician’s instructions. In compliance with state law, your child’s medication will be kept in the office refrigerator, out of reach of the children.

On December 6th, 2014, I had the opportunity to give a PowerPoint presentation on the issue of “Children in the Fields” to the youth group (and a few other members) of my local church in Wendell, NC. There was a total of about 20 people there, ranging from ages 13 to 30 years. As youth president at my church, I was given the responsibility of looking for current events and/or issues to present to the youth, so that they can learn to become informed citizens and learn the importance of volunteering and advocating for a specific cause. As a result of taking this course, which has allowed me to be aware of the issues and injustices surrounding farmworkers, I decided to give a presentation on an issue that is very near and dear to my heart—children in the fields—and because I considered that this topic would provoke the biggest emotional reactions from the audience. Overall, as I was giving the presentation, I observed that the audience was actually shocked about the experiences that many children undergo due to the lack of strict laws and/ or lack of law enforcement. Although not all of the listeners had children of their own, which would allow them to connect to the injustices and suffering through their parental lens, many of them were young adolescents who were able to recall their own childhood and make comparisons to the information that they were learning. As a result of my presentation, there are now 20 more people who are aware of one of the most significant issues in

After conducting the survey, it was clear that the majority of the parents were allies to the project. With little knowledge of the balls and their benefits, they still pledged support to the concept, wanting the best for their children. Because they have little knowledge about the balls, they are not likely to engage greatly in solving the social issue. Rather, they will support the inclusion of the balls in the classroom. According to their responses, they may be willing to become constituents through donation but would prefer that others donate the balls. The children are also another example of allies to the project. Having very little control or freedom in their lives, they cannot dive into the project in a way that adults can. Rather, they support the use of the balls and will truly utilize them when they are in the classroom.

A study was done by Piven (1991) where 81 parents of 42 autistic children and 34 parents of 18 Down syndrome children were assessed using a semi structured investigator based version of the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia lifetime Version which estimated the lifetime risk of psychiatric disorder. It was reported that the lifetime prevalence rate of anxiety disorder were significantly greater in patents of autistic children than in parents of down syndrome children. And the lifetime prevalence rate of major depressive disorder, was nor significantly different in cases and controls, but may be high in parents of autistic children in comparison with populations rates .

1. MLU was calculated by counting the total number of morphemes and dividing by the total number of utterances. In the sample the child’s MLU was 2.96 and the child is 41 months old. The norm for a child between 36 and 42 months for MLU is 2.5 to 3.0, according to Brown’s stages (Bowen). Based on Brown’s stages the child from the language sample falls within the higher end of this range.

I was born in Islamabad, Pakistan in 1995, the first of three children. Now just because I was born in Pakistan, that doesn’t make me “Paki”. My mother had given me her Persian heritage whereas my father had passed down his Kurdish background. It wasn’t until the year of 1999 that my parents immigrated to the U.S. At that time, it was just my folks and my little brother living in some cheap apartment in Herndon, VA. After a few short years my younger sister popped into our lives. Fast forward a quick nine years we found ourselves on the freeway moving to a nice little city called Harrisonburg, which was still in VA.