Friday, September 12, 2014
The topic I chose for the stimulation is poverty and its effects on children and families. I chose this topic because I see on a daily basis how children and their families struggle when it comes to the access they have to education as a result of being poor. I have also heard several stories dealing with children and families not being able to get the best education due to the fact that they live in low income neighborhoods and do not have transportation to get their children back forth to neighborhoods that offer better educational facilities. I have learned that there are several organizations available to assist those in need. I want to be an advocate and ensure that the information is readily available to the families and children in need. I am open to any suggestions on how I should go about spreading this valuable information.
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As an advocate, you can have a message board in your classroom specifically for parents, where they can obtain important information. This message board will include important information such as important dates, events, and forms/handouts (i.e. handouts from local non-profits that helps those in need).
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ReplyDeleteFor children of all ages, poverty has some devastating effects. Poor children are two times more likely than non poor children to have stunted growth, iron deficiency, and severe asthma. Poverty placed children at greater risk of dying before their first birthdays than did a mother's smoking during pregnancy. Every year a child spends in poverty, there is the chance that the child will fall behind grade level by age 18. In lost future productivity alone, because poor children will be less educated and less effective workers. For parents struggling to raise a child, poverty adds extensive stress to the family. Economic hardship experienced by lower class families is associated with anxiety, depression, and irritability. With those qualities may come a tendency on the part of parents to be punitive, inconsistent, authoritarian, and generally non supportive of their children. The strain of poverty may also promote the use of disciplinary approaches that take less time and effort than approaches such as reasoning and negotiating.
nccp.org is a great resource for children in poverty. I cannot remember if you had the chance to look at it during our discussion this week, so I wanted to make sure you have this as a resource:) best of luck on this topic- it is a great one to research.
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