Discuss how these topics do or do not influence you today and how they might have an effect on your work with diverse families. Stay focused on relevant information concerning the implications for your work with young children and their families.
• History: family history of ethnic origin, language (s), geography, and immigration
• Growing up: where you grew up, pattern of movement or stability, and your family of origin structure
• Your current family or living structure
• Values of independence or interdependence
• Discipline approaches
• Attitudes toward disability
• Influence of racism
• Family structure
• Parents' roles
• Caregiver-child communication
• Medical practices.