Related Courses and Supporting Documents
FSHS 110- Introduction to Human Development
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FSHS 301 Helping Relationship
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FSHS 302 Introduction to Human Sexuality
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FSHS 350 Family Relationships and Gender Roles
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FSHS 506- Middle Childhood and Adolescence
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FSHS 510 Human Development and Aging
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FSHS 550- The Family
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FSHS 552- Families and Diversity
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FSHS 590 Capstone Experience in Family Studies and Human Services
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FSHS 670- Working with Parents- I will be taking this class over the summer, and plan to add a very important project that everyone has to work on throughout this class!
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GERON 315- Introduction to Gerontology
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SOCIO 211- Introduction to Sociology
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FSHS 310- Early Childhood
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ECED 313 Pre- Professional experience in Early Childhood
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PSYCH 110- General Psychology
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SOCWK 100 Social Work: The Helping Profession
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SOCWK 200 Basic Skills for Working with People
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CNRES 531 Core Conflict Resolution
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FSHS 300 Problems in Family Studies and Human Services: Sexual Violence
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FSHS 300 Problems in Family studies and Human Services: Adolescent Substance Abuse
Parent Education and Guidance
An understanding of how parents teach, guide and influence children and adolescents as well as the changing nature, dynamics and needs of the parent/child relationship across the lifespan.
Raising a child is no easy task, and every parent has their fair share of struggles. All parents have a different parenting style and this varies not only from family to family but also each child in the same family can have a different style the parent uses. Because there are so many different ways that a parent can discipline and teach their children, parent education can be very complex. Not all forms of discipline work for every child and so parent education is crucial to getting all of the knowledge that you possibly can. Parent education teaches parents about child development, and how they can apply what they learn to teach their children.
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I feel their could be much more parent education when it comes to sexuality. It is an uncomfortable talk to have so many times parents avoid the conversation all together, or leave it for someone else to do. This can be very detrimental because kids need to learn this stuff, and having someone they may look up to be the one to teach them can be very beneficial.
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Reflection
I don't have any material that is directly related to this content area. After I take Working with Parents I will definitely have more to put. With that being said though, I do feel a lot of my course work discussed working with families, and with that comes working with parents.
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As I mentioned previously every parent has a different parenting style, so when working with parents you have to take that into account. Educating parents on the different parenting styles, and the effects they have on kids can be very beneficial. Since I am interested in human sexuality I could also teach parents how to talk to their kids about that topic. I would be interested in working with an age group out side of adolescents if it were to help benefit them in some way.