Family Strengths

Children’s development and character are primarily due to the influence of the family in which they belong. The family in turn impacts and affects the ways in which a community and society function. Families are the foundation for all cultures around the world. Although families are very diverse, as a unit, they accomplish similar tasks including bearing and rearing children, providing the basic needs of the members in the family, establishing family traditions, and teaching responsibility. Families play a major role in how well children do in school and perform as adults and how they will contribute to society.

Early childhood education (ECE) professionals are challenged to continue the foundational work begun within the family unit in developing a child’s whole being: physical, cognitive, social, emotional, ...