The family interview project was very enjoyable. I choose to interview a family of three; the family consisted of mother, father and a child. Both the mother and father are age twenty-five and work full-time outside the home. For the sake of confidentiality I have given each parent a fake name, the mothers name is “Lucy” and the father is “Steve”. They have recently welcomed their first child into the family. There child is a girl named “Ann”, Ann is eight weeks old. Through the interview questions I found multiple connections to the course content. These course connections refer to nurture, discipline, and education.
During the interview I asked both parents how they would describe themselves as parents. One of Lucy’s qualities included being nurturing. According to our textbook nurturing is described as a “role, which encompasses all the
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I noticed during the interview that both Lucy and Steve desired for Ann to be a well educated through infancy into adulthood. Both parents have higher education, and desire for Ann to achieve academic success. When to begin educating a child and the level of intensity has differing viewpoints. Lucy and Steve are already making efforts to educate Ann at just the age of two months old. According to the course content one view point is that the sooner you being teaching a child the better off the child will be in the future, “the sooner adults begin to ‘teach’ young children the skills, concepts, and tasks necessary for academic success, the greater the likelihood of achieving that success. Concern by reports of declining reading and SAT scores and just about everything else that has been tested in recent years, some parents and teachers believe that school skills should be taught earlier and more intensely” (Gestwicki, 2013, p. 81). The opposing viewpoint argues that child should be children and not pushed so aggressively towards education so