Child, Family, and Community Relationships
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Course Introduction
This course explores the dynamic interactions among children, families, and the broader community, emphasizing the critical role these relationships play in child development and well-being. Students will examine diverse family structures, cultural influences, and community resources, while learning to foster effective communication and partnerships with families and community members. The course covers theories and practical strategies for building supportive environments, advocating for children and families, and respecting diversity, with the goal of preparing students to collaborate successfully in educational and human service settings.
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Child Family and Community Family Centered Early Care and Education 7th Edition by Janet Gonzalez
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Chapter 1: The Child in Context of Family and Community
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Q1) When applying Bronfenbrenner's bioecological model, an early childhood teacher should
A) First understand the different contexts listed in the model
B) Teach each child by focusing on the microsystems only
C) Relate the layers to the parents at a parent education meeting
D) Ask the child questions about their values
Answer: A
Q2) The whole child concept includes
A) The intellectual ability of the child
B) The social ability of the child
C) The intellectual and social ability of the child
D) The mind, body, feelings woven together
Answer: D
Q3) Which of the following is the correct order of the four components of Bronfenbrenner's bioecological model, moving from the center outward?
A) Microsystems, macrosystems, exosystems, mesosystems
B) Macrosystems, microsystems, mesosystems, macrosystems
C) Macrosystems, exosystems, mesosystems, microsystems
D) Microsystems, mesosystems, exosystems, macrosystems
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Supporting Families Around Issues of
Attachment and Trust
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Q1) Ron Lally, Peter Mangione, the PITC and the research of Emmi Pikler have all focused on which of the following ideas?
A) Helping caregivers develop a primary attachment with children
B) Supporting infant-toddler programs to discourage attachment between caregivers and children
C) The importance of training caregivers to develop secondary attachment in out-of-home care
D) Discouraging attachment for children in childcare
Answer: C
Q2) What is the definition of temperament?
A) Temperament is the word to describe a temper tantrum
B) Temperament is a personality disorder
C) Temperament is an inborn trait that is genetically determined
D) Temperament is an environmental condition
Answer: C
Q3) What might happen with children who do not develop a healthy attachment to an adult?
Answer: Children who do not develop a healthy attachment to an adult may experience a lack of trust and unresolved trust issues, and may seek unhealthy adult relationships.
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Chapter 3: Supporting Families With Autonomy-Seeking Youngsters
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Q1) Partnering with parents in early care and education programs is
A) Another name for parent education
B) A way to require parents to be involved in helping out
C) About sharing, collaboration and participation
D) A way of having some control over the child's education
Answer: C
Q2) Why do adults need to consider perspective when working with toddlers?
A) To justify being frustrated with toddler activity
B) To help set reasonable expectations
C) To help toddlers learn to share
D) To help parents teach toddlers to be respectful
Answer: B
Q3) Which of the following is not a way to create partnerships with families?
A) Work hard to create and maintain a relationship with each family
B) Recognize that you can also learn from observing
C) Find ways to share power with the families
D) Recognize that independent practice is a strong teacher
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Sharing Views of Initiative With Families
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Q1) How can teachers help families understand what is happening during play?
A) Teachers can explain that children are passive during play
B) Teachers can point out that children's minds are idle during play
C) Teachers can describe how children are active explorers during play
D) Teachers can tell parents that children are just running off energy
Q2) Aggression in young children
A) Is the same as initiative
B) Can come from a variety of causes
C) Is not usually a problem in preschool-age children
D) Can be healthy if the child can get what they want
Q3) Briana, age 4, is in Erikson's third stage of development. What is the third stage called?
A) Autonomy versus shame and doubt
B) Initiative versus guilt
C) Industry versus inferiority
D) Trust versus mistrust
Q4) What is the difference between empowering and overpowering children?
Q5) What four qualities are important when facilitating conflict resolution between children?
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Chapter 5: Working With Families of School-Age Children
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Q1) Which of the following statements is true about praise?
A) It can have negative side effects
B) It cannot be overdone
C) It is most effective when the terms "good boy" or "good girl" are used
D) It is most effective if it is not earned
Q2) How can teachers become better communicators with families?
A) Communicate only through email so that families can respond when convenient
B) Communicate only in person, to keep it authentic
C) Schedule meetings at different times to be accommodating to all families
D) Plan conferences to be a one-way report where teachers tell families what is going on
Q3) What is the focus of the ethic of caring?
A) A caring alternative to character education
B) Teaching children to be virtuous
C) Considering one's own needs more than that of another
D) Teaching caring through emotional manipulation
Q4) What are some strategies for teaching morals through prosocial development?
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Chapter 6: Societal Influences on Children and Families
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Q1) According to the research of Adrie Kusserow, the families in Queens and the families in Manhattan treated their children very differently. What were the differences and why?
Q2) How do parents help their children learn to get along with peers?
A) Scolding and criticizing children when they show they can't get along
B) Punishing children when they are not mannerly
C) Modeling desirable behavior and coaching children in social skills
D) Giving children lectures on proper etiquette
Q3) Which of the following is not true about television?
A) TV fails as a socializer because it gives children no real-life practice in social skills
B) Without careful monitoring, children learn things from television that are not good for them
C) Commercial advertising creates false needs in children
D) The violence on television has drastically decreased since deregulation came into effect
Q4) How are children socialized by their families?
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Chapter 7: Understanding Families Goals, Values, and Culture
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Q1) According to the text, which of the following describes pattern 1 families?
A) They generalize about cultures and create stereotypes
B) They believe that everybody in a given culture is alike
C) The group is seen as more important than the individual
D) People are valued as unique individuals, starting at birth
Q2) What do the two "R's" in the RERUN process stand for?
A) Responsible and responsive
B) Respect and responsibility
C) Reflect and reason
D) Responsibility and reaction
Q3) Which of the following best characterizes parents with interdependence goals?
A) They focus on individualism
B) They never "baby" their children
C) They encourage self-help skills during the first year
D) They model being "other-centered"
Q4) Culture
A) Is something that only ethnic people have
B) Is something that caregivers do not need to pay attention to
C) Is invisible and effects everything that we do
D) Should be melted into other cultures
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Chapter 8: Working With Families on Guidance Issues
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Q1) Merlin scribbled on the rug with a marker. A logical consequence for him might include
A) Merlin cannot go outside with the rest of the group
B) Merlin has to go on time out
C) Merlin cannot use markers for the day
D) Merlin must clean the markers off of the rug
Q2) How do natural consequences differ from logical consequences?
A) Natural consequences are created by adults
B) Logical consequences occur naturally
C) Natural consequences happen without adult intervention
D) Logical and natural consequences are arbitrary
Q3) According to the research of Janice Hale and Lonnie Snowden, discipline in many African American families depends on what?
A) Inner controls and time outs
B) Single parents
C) An external locus of control and an extensive network of adults
D) Physical punishment and isolation
Q4) Describe the 7 effective ways to respond to children's unacceptable behavior.
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Chapter 9: Working With Families on Addressing Feelings and Problem Solving
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Q1) Simultaneous feelings include all of the following, except
A) They are sometimes called mixed feelings
B) They are difficult for children because children can focus only on one feeling at a time
C) They are verbalized by adults to help children cope
D) They are easy for children to deal with and explain
Q2) According to the chapter, which of the following is never inappropriate?
A) Express feelings
B) Act on one's feelings
C) Feel what one feels
D) Talk about feelings
Q3) Which of the following is a way adults can help children deal with fears?
A) By ignoring them and waiting for the fear to go away
B) Force them to confront whatever they are afraid of no matter how unwilling they are
C) Help them play out their fears
D) Do not take their fears seriously
Q4) How does playing pretend help children cope with feelings?
Q5) How can adults help children cope with fear?
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Chapter 10: Working With Families to Support Self-Esteem
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Q1) Which of the following best describes an anti-bias curriculum?
A) Teaches children to be blind to racial and cultural differences
B) Teaches children to respond positively and appropriately to differences
C) Avoids discussions of injustice because children are too young to understand
D) Does not include people with disabilities
Q2) Self-esteem is best defined by which of the following statements?
A) It is a valuing process and ongoing self-appraisal which encompasses self-image and self concept
B) It means ignoring the minuses and only acknowledging the pluses
C) It means always feeling positive
D) Refers to fulfilling ones individual potential
Q3) What is the basis of the significance dimension of self-esteem?
A) The individual's academic ability
B) A feeling of being loved and cared about
C) How important the person is on the power dimension
D) A child's competence in a number of areas
Q4) What is the difference between discriminating on the basis of skin color and recognizing differences in skin color?
Q5) What are some of the ways to teach anti-bias behaviors?
Q6) What are some strategies for changing negative messages to positive ones?
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Chapter 11: Working With Families Around Gender Issues
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Q1) Which of the following is true about teaching an antibias attitude to young children?
A) It includes speaking out against racial injustice but not gender inequities
B) It is inappropriate for young children because they do not have biases
C) It gives them the skills to challenge bias of all sorts, including sexism
D) It applies only to girls
Q2) All of the following are reasons why gender equity continues to be an issue, except
A) Children's television teaches narrow gender roles through ads for toys and the way they show gender stereotypes
B) Children's bedrooms from infancy onward give messages about stereotypical differences between girls and boys
C) Adults in children's lives do not always model equitable gender role
D) There is too much focus on gender equity
Q3) Which is true about the history of gender and clothing in the 1970's?
A) There was a strict dress code enforcing girls to wear dresses
B) Unisex clothing was popular and boys and girls wore many of the same clothes
C) Boys wore more dresses than they do now
D) Boys all had very short hair
Q4) How does interruption relate to gender roles?
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Chapter 12: Stress and Success in Family Life
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Q1) What is the word to describe when one person encourages and enables another to lean too heavily on him or her, creating bonds that trap both of them?
A) Attachment
B) Codependence
C) Poverty
D) Resiliency
Q2) How can teachers give legitimacy to all families?
Q3) What did the 6 featured families have in common?
Q4) Poverty is a factor in child rearing. Therefore, which of the following statements is true of poverty?
A) There is nothing the society can do about it
B) Even though many children are poor, they still have all their basic needs met
C) Poverty can be blamed on parents who cannot or will not work
D) Poverty is getting worse, even though there are antipoverty policies that have been proven to work to reduce the bad effects of poverty on children
Q5) How is the power dynamic between adults and children shifting within families in relation to the emerging society?
Q6) How can adults help all children become resilient?
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Chapter 13: Early Care and Education Programs As Community Resources
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Q1) Which of the following are roadblocks to mutual appreciation between parents and teachers?
A) Parents don't take preschool teachers seriously
B) Teachers don't want to hear what parents have to say
C) Competition, resentment, savior complex
D) Resentment, jealousy, money matters
Q2) Smaller groups and good ratios make it more likely that adults will do what?
A) Provide sensitive, responsive interactions with children
B) Give orders to children
C) Keep children in line by quoting rules
D) Demand, rather than encourage or suggest
Q3) One way to connect families is
A) Send out parent contact information
B) Introduce parents with common problems to each other
C) Ask permission to make contact information available
D) Pass out beer and wine to relax parents at meetings
Q4) How does competition impact the relationship between families and caregivers?
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Chapter 14: Supporting Families Through Community
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Q1) What best characterizes stroke pie?
A) It is a favorite American dessert
B) It is a way of assessing how broad an individual's base of support is
C) It should feature a single individual as the sole support of another
D) It has to do only with financial support, not emotional support
Q2) Which of the following is not an ongoing trend that illustrates the need for formal and informal support for families?
A) The increasing numbers of mothers of infants and young children in the workforce
B) The growing challenge for low-income families to attain economic self- sufficiency
C) The feminization of poverty
D) The growing challenge facing community college parents
Q3) All of the following is true about families who find themselves isolated from other people, except
A) They have the best possible situation for rearing children
B) Isolation limits role models for children
C) Isolation can lead to child abuse
D) Isolation can lead to a sense of hopelessness
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Chapter 15: Social Policy Issues
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Q1) Using a preventive approach that would be less expensive and more desirable than dealing with children and families in crisis includes
A) Taking more children away from their families to be reared by people who know more about children than the average family
B) Making systemic reforms to help families have what they need to support and nurture their children and keep the family intact
C) Deciding as a society who should and shouldn't have babies
D) Putting every child in the nation in an early education program starting in infancy
Q2) Which of the following is not something that educators should provide to children and families?
A) An environment that acknowledges children's diverse backgrounds
B) Community support
C) Comfortable transition into the next instructional level
D) One-size-fits-all education policies
Q3) Children who have been exposed to violence often experience fear. What is one way that children try to work through their fears, and why is it not always supported by adults?
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