For most of my education experience, I can compare my path to most of my friends but only within my school. If I had to compare myself to my friends from other schools who have had more opportunities within their Read More …
Education 512
Most of my current friends didn’t go to school, they started businesses, got 9-5’s, certificates etc. We are all kind of in the same spot right now, still just trying to figure it out at our varying ages. No one Read More …
Education 200
Education is an interesting thing, many aspects of education affect us as individuals, and many affect us all as a whole. My education was not the most formal way of education. I was homeschooled although homeschooled is a generous term. Read More …
Education 182
My whole life my parents have emphasized the importance of education. They told me that if I didn’t want to live in a broken down trailer with cheap things my whole life, that I need to go to college and Read More …
Education 808
My previous experience with education was I believe great in the later grades of elementary, however in the higher levels of education in my district the education seemed to be slightly declining. In elementary school I was academically ahead of Read More …
Parenting Style 606
Which kind of parenting style (Annette Lareau) did your parents use with you? How do you think that impacted you? (Accomplishment of natural growth or concerted cultivation) When we were being taught the exact definitions of accomplishment of natural growth and Read More …
Parenting Style 910
Definitely “Accomplishment of natural growth.” My family has stayed within the middle-class (at least in recent years, maybe we teetered in the working-class). My brother and I were allowed to do kind of whatever, as long as we went outside Read More …
Parenting Style 921
I grew up in a conservative family. I have the same beliefs that I grew up with and never thought that I wanted to change how I was raised. I do think the evidence presented about the family form is Read More …
Parenting Style 845
My parents definitely used concerted cultivation as a parenting approach with my brother and me. We were both put into sports as toddlers, and had to choose our favorite to pursue for the rest of childhood. There was maybe one Read More …
Parenting Style 246
I think that my parents used the “concerted cultivation strategy” when raising me. I think that this honestly impacted me in a good way. I was never taught to disrespect authority, but I was always taught to question authority because Read More …