Research and Children

The topic that I would choose to further investigate would be The Effect of Home Environments of Children. The reason that I chose this topic is because I see a lot of behaviors at school that stem from home environments. Some of these behaviors are postive and some are negative. For instance I have seen little girls who come to school and conduct themselves in a proper manner. What I mean by this is they are like little women, they know how to sit properly with a skirt on, they use their manners,and they want to be little helper in the classroom. These trait that I see I assume is being taught to them at home. Now on the other hand there is right now a little boy who is at pre-k now and he is struggling badly. He has to be sent to the principal's office at least 3 or 4 times during the week. He is disruptive in class and he is constanly getting into trouble. He recently had an evlauation or observation done by the SDD teacher, and during the evaluation or observation he was having a make believe phone conversation with one of his homeboys and they were talking about going to get some liquor so that they could get drunk. Now in my opinion he has picked up these things from his home environment. Sometimes parents do not realize that the environment that a child is expossed to has a lasting effect on how that chld will act and function. This type of research can help educate parents and teach them that every environment is not the right environment for children.