CFD 1010 Lecture 48: Promoting School

• School: UCM
• Department: Child and Family Development
• Course: CFD 1010
• Professor: Frank R Peterson

Document Summary

School-aged children are not as closely supervised by parents as during the preschool years. Their social and emotional lives continue to be shaped by family interactions. They are influenced also by the degree to which their parents provide organized activities for them and monitor their informal leisure activities. Parental influences on the acquisition of skills and competencies. School age children are assisted in their quest for competence when their parents: Encourage them to try out new things. Provide the materials and instruction needed to learn new skills. Pay attention to the progress their children are making in developing competence in a particular area, Two of the most meaningful activities for the development of skills and competencies. During the school age years, parents contribute to their children"s social development by sharing social power. Advances in cognitive development prepare children for a greater sharing of social power. Parent-child co-regulation is an example of the sharing of parental power.