What Is The Ideal Family Essay

As I read the information covered in this chapter, the biggest impact to students would be recognizing that not every student is going to have the same family type they have. Children come from numerous family settings that are all structured differently. Todays children are growing up in more diverse settings and each of them have their own benefits, as well as problems. Educators need to become more aware of this to prevent bullying between students. Students should be taught not to be mean to one another because their family isn 't ‘ideal’ or perfect. There is no such thing as the perfect family. In a child 's mind, the ‘ideal’ family is having a two-parent household, a mother and a father. Although that may be ‘ideal’, it is not the common family type anymore. Family types

The group that I had were girls aged 7-8, all sweet girls but of course kids can get into disagreements and it is our jobs as counselors to disperse the situation. I remember this one fight that these two girls had gotten into, and I had gone up to one of the girls and said, “Can you please explain to me what happened that made you so upset with your friend?” She went on to tell me that this little girl she got into an argument with was telling her how she doesn 't have a father. The girl I talked to that told me she said that, went on to telling me that this girl was lying because everyone has a father. I had to sit there and explain to her that yes, thinking about it, everybody does have a father, but some people aren 't fortunate enough to have their fathers around all the time. Whether it was caused by death, or the father simply was not involved in the child 's life or the parents had gotten divorced, I had to explain to another little girl whose norm was having her father around all the time, that sometimes people do not have that involvement from both