There are times when people talk about their childhood and tell stories of elementary school and middle school. Some stories are very positive and interesting to hear about, while others are depressing and show us how life can be rough sometimes. There are countless cases in which we see a child choose the wrong path of life and go into drugs, violence, and other negative things because the absence of parental supervision and guidance in their life. Kauchak and Eggen mention a term called "latchkey children" in their book Introduction to Teaching. This term is used to describe children who return to empty homes after they attend school, resulting in the children having no adult or parental supervision until their parents or a guardians return …show more content…
My best friend was a latchkey child, he used to go home after school to an empty house with no adult supervision from the 5th grade until the 8th grade. Prior to the 5th grade, he was an honor roll student and volunteered as a tutor for children in preschool and kindergarten. He was the ideal student, everybody knew of him and his successes at such a young age. During the 5th grade his parents had gotten new jobs due to financial issues and the presence of his parents in his personal life decreased. After school, he would return to an empty home and both of his parents would come home several hours after him. As time went by, he developed a decreased amount of interest in his academics and started focusing on other things such as meeting people afterschool. By the 7th grade, he was failing all his classes and started smoking cigarettes and his life continued to get worst. I lost contact with him after the 8th grade because I attended a different high school than him, but I still hear stories today about how he dropped out of high school and started doing more drugs. This whole experience was very depressing and changed my life completely because I lost my best friend to drugs just because he did not have an adult to take care of him after he got out of
You don’t get to choose where you grow up, but you do decide if you’ll stay there the rest of your life. Growing up I feel I saw things that I shouldn’t of ever seen for my age. The neighborhood I lived in had a lot of violence, and the cops would show up at least once a week so that nothing too major would happen. Crimes were always committed on my street, and the only time I was away from it would be when I went to school. After school I would go to the salvation army with my sister, and wait until my mom would get off work. We never knew when we would get home. Sometimes it would be until 5, and other days we would stay until 7. I met many new people which taught me a lot about working with others. Some days were good, and others were not
The 1990 movie Home Alone may have poked fun at what could happen when an eight-year old boy is accidentally left home alone, yet in reality it is not uncommon for thousands of American children to be left home alone on any given day. Children who are left home alone - sometimes known as "latchkey kids" -- are often left without adult supervision for reasons beyond a parent's control and, in some unfortunate situations, out of neglect or child abuse.
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Growing up as an only child, you learn lessons about life earlier than most kids. I learn that you have done everything yourself. There is no one else to blame when there is trouble. I moved seven times, meaning I have lived in seven different houses or places. With moving that many times I learned to not get attached to people or places. For school, I ended up moving to four different school districts. Two of the school districts being private and the other two public schools. My experiences from both types of schools gave me an insight to how people do things in life. Therefore, I got the chance at a young age to meet at various people that live in our country. I'm first generation born and raised in the United States. Both my parents went to college in the
Growing up I had two influential individuals impact my life both positively and negatively, which would be my parents. It is to them, which I credit my accomplishments both inside and outside of school. Considering my parents are immigrants, they never got the education they desired; instead, they arrived to the United States with no English background. After all, most immigrants such as my parents vanished their country to build a life in America in order to supply their kids the advantage to obtain a higher education.
Imagine assembling and disassembling AK-47 in high school! Stacy, is an international student from the University of Oregon. Stacy’s life growing up was different and a little bit similar to to how other people in the US grow up.
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Growing up in a family where the average education level is middle school can change the way that you are perceived in the world. My mother is the only person to get an Executive MBA. This has influenced me to go to school and get my degree to change the statistics put upon my family. Growing up my mother has always put the pressure on me to push myself harder and be my better self. When I first came to America I did not speak a lick of English, I would remember my mom sanding over me with a ruler and would hit me every time I said a word wrong or if I were to misspell a word. This has instilled in me to never give up and keep on trying until everything was correct with no mistakes. By the second semester of kindergarten I was already the best
I feel that when my parents were thinking of having kids the thought of how many they wanted didn’t cross their minds. My parents had eight kids all together and I feel that eight is too many at times, but I still wouldn’t want to have it any other way. Growing up with so many people has given me the opportunity to experience seven different personalities and how to get on their nerves. Having this many siblings has its’ ups and downs from transportation to fist fight because someone ate someone else’s’ hidden stash of snacks when clearly they weren’t hidden well enough. Many experiences that I have been through recently don’t come close to the humiliation I had brought upon myself when I was eleven years old and how my family members used
Growing up, I have faced many difficult challenges. When I was just five years old, I was taken away from my mother due to her addiction to drugs. My oldest sister, the one that took care of me, was sent to live with her dad hundreds of miles away. That was very hard for me and my other sister, because she was our mother figure. My other older sister and I were sent to live with our father, and throughout the years he had four other daughters with my stepmother. I was always treated differently than my younger sisters, in a way that made me feel like I was excluded out from them.
Day care centres hold great opportunities for children to learn, to be cared for in a safe, stimulating environment with lots of educational resources where children can play and develop to gain secure attachments, to form security and have sociable peer interactions with others and the world around them.
Latchkey children also known as self-care children refers to students that are left home unattended after school forcing them to look after themselves. This is because either their parents/legal guardian are working, attending school, or have other duties. According to many studies about 15 million children return home to empty houses. Also self-care is perceived to be either deleterious for the student’s academic performance or not affected at all. Some people believe it can have a positive impact by teaching them responsibility and safety, but others say children are too young to learn about such big tasks.
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Often times day care is unavoidable, especially if a household needs two incomes or only has one parent, but day care does not provide the perfect learning environment for most children. Most kids require a personalized learning environment and individual attention in order to further their early skills. These traits in a learning environment can also help pinpoint a mental illness early a child’s development, meaning there is a greater chance that the child can make large improvements.
As early as kids join school, negligence is a very repetitive mistake made my parents. The topic of Latchkey Children, which are the children who return to empty houses after school and whom are left alone until parents arrive from work, is very delicate because it raises the risks of danger to the child. Not only is the child not equipped with the means to survive on his own, but also the risks of education as there is no reinforcer or anything to make sure the child applies himself to his schoolwork. As the Latchkey Child is left unattended they could spend extensive hours watching tv and not getting enough help with their homework, which would later motivate them to not do the homework at all. Luckily, there are solutions to these problems.