Working with Diverse Families

As an early childhood administrator, you must accept differences in families and build constructive relationships with all kinds of families (Scully, Barbour, & Roberts-King, 2014). Economics and social pressures also contribute to the ways families are diverse.

Suppose your early childhood organization serves the following types of families:

• Low-income, Caucasian family of a child with a disability
• Homeless, highly educated bi-racial family with two boys and a girl
• Upper-income lesbian family with three adopted boys
• Extended Latino family with a divorced mother, plus grandparents, and two girls

continue your narrative essay by examining research on family systems theory, parenting styles, and the role of family structures in relation to the types of families served by your organization. Describe the diversity of these families in terms of their parenting roles, cultural beliefs, and involvement in their child’s education. For each of the family types of your organization, describe the effective ways you would support, communicate, and share community resources. Support your approaches to working with the diverse families with references to theories and research examined.

Include a summary of the importance of understanding diversity from your own perspective as well as the perspectives of the families your early childhood education serves.

Include at least three references from scholarly sources retrieved from the University Library supporting family systems theory, parenting styles, and/or roles of family structures and include in-text citations throughout your assignment.

Reference:

Scully, P., Barbour, C., & Roberts-King, H. (2014). Families, schools, and communities: Building partnerships for educating children (6th ed.) . Boston, MA: Pearson.