"The Role of the Father in the Family." 22 Mar 2009 http://info.ag.vt.edu/vce/offices/newsletters/role_of_father.pdf.
The author uses sources such as University of Idaho Cooperative Extension System – District IV Extension Educators and The Parent’s Handbook,Don Dinkmeyer & Gary D. McKay. They seem to have done their research, and to be very credible.
“The Role of the Father in The Family” has many different facts that I didn’t see in other sources. Facts such as a child’s academic achievement could suffer if there is a negative view of a father figure and that a father’s influence can affect the choice of occupations, preferred school subjects, and role development of their children. This piece goes much more in depth; it has facts on how a father’s own upbringing greatly affects how he will act as a father. This piece gives the “four basic ingredients for building a positive relationship.” These “ingredients” are mutual respect between the father and child, making time for fun where it is better to have quality time and quantity is not the main focus, to encourage your child and believe in them and communicate that to them, as well as communicating you love for them, which is the final “ingredient.” This piece also gives research that suggests that “fathers who have participated in the delivery do more with their newborn child than fathers who do not. These fathers tend to participate more in childcare also.”
This piece has many helpful sources in it that will help me with any extra research that I may need when writing my paper. I like that it goes into how a father already has his parenting style guided by how he was parented as a child, that this greatly influences how he will parent his child. It has facts from the child’s actual birth to the child going into adulthood which will be very helpful to me while I am writing my paper. There is also a list of the sources and many other books to look into with this piece.
I feel that the information that was used and presented in this information was reliable; there was an area at the bottom that was strictly a list of sources that were used to create the web page.
Monday, April 27, 2009
source 3- anotated bibliography
Civitas, "How Do Fathers Fit In?." Civitas: the Institute for the Study of Civil Society 22 Mar 2009 http://www.civitas.org.uk/hwu/fathers.php.
This site is based on studies that have been conducted as well as facts and statistics that have been collected from forty eight other sources that are all sited in a long list at the end of the document. This site is full of facts and many helpful sources.
This site tells you step by step in a child’s life what it is that a child should be learning in life lessons from their father. It has from the time they are babies to teens and what should be learned at each stage and what the consequences are if these needs are not met. For example for small children, they should learn how to solve problems and how to get along with others from who ever may be the father figure in their life. I learned that “It really is fathers who can have a major influence on helping their children build strong social relationships during childhood and later in life.” That most of the things that we learn when we are young are from our father and not our mothers and that if we don’t learn these from a “father figure” when we are young, that the rest of a child’s life could and will be affected by this early in life. There is a section of how father’s fit into the family and a section for every stage of life a child passes through. Another example that was used was “one study found that primary school children scored higher on tests of empathy-the ability to see a situation from another person's viewpoint-if they had secure attachments to their fathers during infancy. These children were able to recognize how other children felt and took steps to make them feel better.
This could help me because I can use this source to help me show the effects of having a father figure from infancy to adult hood with all of the possible outcomes for a troubled teen compared to that of the teen who has a positive father figure.
The writer uses 48 different references and sources; he goes into grave detail for every stage in a child’s life as well as how the father influences the family.
This site is based on studies that have been conducted as well as facts and statistics that have been collected from forty eight other sources that are all sited in a long list at the end of the document. This site is full of facts and many helpful sources.
This site tells you step by step in a child’s life what it is that a child should be learning in life lessons from their father. It has from the time they are babies to teens and what should be learned at each stage and what the consequences are if these needs are not met. For example for small children, they should learn how to solve problems and how to get along with others from who ever may be the father figure in their life. I learned that “It really is fathers who can have a major influence on helping their children build strong social relationships during childhood and later in life.” That most of the things that we learn when we are young are from our father and not our mothers and that if we don’t learn these from a “father figure” when we are young, that the rest of a child’s life could and will be affected by this early in life. There is a section of how father’s fit into the family and a section for every stage of life a child passes through. Another example that was used was “one study found that primary school children scored higher on tests of empathy-the ability to see a situation from another person's viewpoint-if they had secure attachments to their fathers during infancy. These children were able to recognize how other children felt and took steps to make them feel better.
This could help me because I can use this source to help me show the effects of having a father figure from infancy to adult hood with all of the possible outcomes for a troubled teen compared to that of the teen who has a positive father figure.
The writer uses 48 different references and sources; he goes into grave detail for every stage in a child’s life as well as how the father influences the family.
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National Fatherhood Initiative, "The Father Factor: Facts of Fatherhood." National Fatherhood Initiative. 1994. National Fatherhood Initiative™. 22 Mar 2009 http://www.fatherhood.org/father_factor.asp.
The National Fatherhood Initiative use the U.S. Census Bureau Report and many other sources that can easily be checked but seem to be very reliable and sound sources.
“The Father Factor: Facts of Fatherhood” has many different facts about all types of situations. It has the possible outcomes of every situation and the effects that each scenario could have in many different areas such as education, childhood obesity, drug and alcohol abuse, child abuse, teen pregnancy, the factors that a father figure could cause in crime, incarceration, maternal and infant health, and how poverty can affect how a father raises his children. There are facts such as a child in a fatherless home are five times more likely to be poor when they grow up, mortality rates for women that are unwed are almost 2 times higher for infants, they have significantly higher odds of being incarcerated, and that there is a significantly higher rate of drug use in children without a father figure. The one fact that stuck out the most for me or that kind of was most shocking to me was, “Of the 228 students studied, those from single-parent families reported higher rates of drinking and smoking as well as higher scores on delinquency and aggression tests when compared to boys from two-parent households.” I didn’t really think that only having one parent present in the home, not regarding if it were the mother of father, would have that much of an impact on a child’s life as then went into adult hood.
This site will be very helpful because it gives many different perspectives and many different situations that could occur. I also like that after each fact there is a source that I can check to see if it is a reliable source.
All of the sources are very reliable from what I gathered from each of them. There were sources after each of them facts and statistics that were used in the piece.
The National Fatherhood Initiative use the U.S. Census Bureau Report and many other sources that can easily be checked but seem to be very reliable and sound sources.
“The Father Factor: Facts of Fatherhood” has many different facts about all types of situations. It has the possible outcomes of every situation and the effects that each scenario could have in many different areas such as education, childhood obesity, drug and alcohol abuse, child abuse, teen pregnancy, the factors that a father figure could cause in crime, incarceration, maternal and infant health, and how poverty can affect how a father raises his children. There are facts such as a child in a fatherless home are five times more likely to be poor when they grow up, mortality rates for women that are unwed are almost 2 times higher for infants, they have significantly higher odds of being incarcerated, and that there is a significantly higher rate of drug use in children without a father figure. The one fact that stuck out the most for me or that kind of was most shocking to me was, “Of the 228 students studied, those from single-parent families reported higher rates of drinking and smoking as well as higher scores on delinquency and aggression tests when compared to boys from two-parent households.” I didn’t really think that only having one parent present in the home, not regarding if it were the mother of father, would have that much of an impact on a child’s life as then went into adult hood.
This site will be very helpful because it gives many different perspectives and many different situations that could occur. I also like that after each fact there is a source that I can check to see if it is a reliable source.
All of the sources are very reliable from what I gathered from each of them. There were sources after each of them facts and statistics that were used in the piece.
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Magellan Health Services, "The Importance of Father Figures in a teen's life." 2009. Magellan Health Services, Inc. 22 Mar 2009 http://www.magellanassist.com/Mem/library/?TopicId=189&CategoryId=0&ArticleId=225.
The Magellan Health Services web site posts all of their sources and show where all of the information they used was gathered from. They are backed by groups such as Council on Accreditation (COA)/Employee Assistance Society of North America (EASNA), American Accreditation Health Care Commission/URAC, and National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA).
In “The Importance of Father Figures in a Teen’s Life” many facts are presented. To start off with the major and most prevalent items were listed first: not having a father figure makes teens more vulnerable to mental or emotional problems, teen pregnancy, criminal behavior, and drug abuse. It mentions the differences among races, or if the father figure is around for part of the time or just completely absent all together. The article even mentions the fathers that are “there” all of the time but don’t exactly know how to emotionally “be there” for their child. There are facts such as “: fatherless children are up to 10 times more likely to be economically disadvantaged, twice as likely to drop out of school, more likely to commit crimes or to behave antisocially, and 2 to 3 times more likely to have emotional problems,” and that “According to one study, 80 percent of imprisoned criminals come from fatherless homes as do 82 percent of pregnant teens. Fatherless children are also at a significantly increased risk for drug abuse as teenagers. For example, girls without fathers are 40 percent more likely to abuse drugs.” There was mention that amount and level of involvement in a teen’s upbringing can effect the teen's mental well-being, perceptual abilities, and social skills. It was also present that those teens with more active fathers are more compassionate later in life.
This is helpful because it contains information on what could happen if a child doesn’t have a father figure and how it could possibly affect a child’s life. I feel it is reliable because many other sources are used that could easily be checked.
Based on what I saw when I checked the sources, I feel as if this is a reliable source that is pretty biased on the opinions of how important they feel a father figure is in a child’s life.
The Magellan Health Services web site posts all of their sources and show where all of the information they used was gathered from. They are backed by groups such as Council on Accreditation (COA)/Employee Assistance Society of North America (EASNA), American Accreditation Health Care Commission/URAC, and National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA).
In “The Importance of Father Figures in a Teen’s Life” many facts are presented. To start off with the major and most prevalent items were listed first: not having a father figure makes teens more vulnerable to mental or emotional problems, teen pregnancy, criminal behavior, and drug abuse. It mentions the differences among races, or if the father figure is around for part of the time or just completely absent all together. The article even mentions the fathers that are “there” all of the time but don’t exactly know how to emotionally “be there” for their child. There are facts such as “: fatherless children are up to 10 times more likely to be economically disadvantaged, twice as likely to drop out of school, more likely to commit crimes or to behave antisocially, and 2 to 3 times more likely to have emotional problems,” and that “According to one study, 80 percent of imprisoned criminals come from fatherless homes as do 82 percent of pregnant teens. Fatherless children are also at a significantly increased risk for drug abuse as teenagers. For example, girls without fathers are 40 percent more likely to abuse drugs.” There was mention that amount and level of involvement in a teen’s upbringing can effect the teen's mental well-being, perceptual abilities, and social skills. It was also present that those teens with more active fathers are more compassionate later in life.
This is helpful because it contains information on what could happen if a child doesn’t have a father figure and how it could possibly affect a child’s life. I feel it is reliable because many other sources are used that could easily be checked.
Based on what I saw when I checked the sources, I feel as if this is a reliable source that is pretty biased on the opinions of how important they feel a father figure is in a child’s life.
response on presentation
i feel like my presentation was prepared well and practiced but i didn't do so great on it. I think that i could have done much better on it then i actually did. I think that I just got nervous about the time limit and just lost everything from that point. Icould have also been more organized, my flash cards were out of order and had things written on the back so i had to fumble around while i was trying to present so it looked kind of sloppy and could have came off much better then it actually did.
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
"Back to Basics: Test Scores Don't Lie"
This piece was written 20 years ago, it is pretty much not relevent anymore. All of her research was up to date around the time it was written but today it is very out dated and almost useless. Her thesis was focused on 2 things: the United States performance in education on a global stage, and the difference of education and learning on a gender bias. She didn't have a counter argument present, in fact her argument was incomplete because of the lack of evidence that was present. She had ideas of how to change a few tests, such as the SAT and replacing it with test in specific studies that the student has been in.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Reflection on essay
Looking back on my diagnostic essay from last semester, and looking for the argument that was supposed to be present, I realized that I had no real argument. I had no real evidence in my essay. Everything was completely based on my opinion and were all pretty much just assumptions I had come to. I think that I had a definite thesis statement but not much more then that was in my essay. It was not a good argumentitive paper at all, it lacked the much needed evidence that would have made it an argument.
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