My Personal Research Journey
In my personal research journey I chose the topic: How to shift the paradigm of parents to get them to value laying a foundation for their children that matters. Parents are their children's first and best teachers and the home environment is crucial to children's academic and social emotional success. If parents are not aware and intentional, life could be disastrous for children.
My personal experience with this is that I am a parent coach professionally and I go into many homes where parents do not realize that they are the ones responsible for laying a foundation for their children. I teach them that the first three years of their child's life is most crucial and by five years old their child's personality is developed and is pretty much set through adulthood. Most parents gasp in disbelief because they think that they have plenty time to shape their child's personality, but that window closes at age five. After five years old, parents will be fixing personalities, which is ten times harder than shaping personalities. In the state that I live in, Michigan, their is a campaign of getting children ready for school by age five and their is a support system set up to help parents (Anton, P. & Chase. R. 2009).
The subtopic that will be the focus of my simulation is: The benefit of children's behavior because of parental paradigm shifts.
Do you guys have any insight or advice that might help me with this simulation?
I found a couple of resources related to my topic:
Bhattacharyya R, Neogi R, Chakraborty K. Essence Of Positive Parenting In Changing Socio-economic Developmental Milieu And Paradigm Shift Of Parental Role In Indian Context. INDIAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY. 59(6):S154.
Isaacs ML, And Others. Full Participation: A Useful Paradigm for School Self-Renewal. December 1995. https://ezp.waldenulibrary.org/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=eric&AN=ED396423&site=eds-live&scope=site. Accessed November 11, 2018.
Reference
Anton, P. & Chase. R. (2009).
Cost Savings Analysis
of School Readiness in Michigan. Executive Summary.
Wilder Research. Wilder Research. 4 pp. (ED511603). Retrieved from https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED511603
Hello! I always have said to parents they are the first teachers. I often get asked by parents why we do not teach their child ABC's and one two three's. We provide social skills so the child will be able to help themselves later during their journey. I agree the first few years are critical, and it is very important parents get all the resources they need during this time. Thanks for sharing, I enjoyed your post.
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