Check Your Answers: After You Read

Chapter 12: Understanding Parenting

Section 12.1

Review Key Concepts
1. Answers will vary. Reasons can be good, such as wanting a family and wanting to care for a child. Reasons can also be bad, such as trying to please your parents and wanting attention.

2. A newborn must be fed every few hours, around the clock. An infant needs diapering, bathing, positive interactions with others, love, and comfort. These responsibilities combined with having a job and household tasks leaves little time for new parents to spend together or by themselves.

3. If either parent drops out of school, the lack of a high-school diploma can be a lifelong barrier to better-paying jobs.

Practice Academic Skills
4. You should provide three realistic examples of change along with an appropriate example of the change.

5. Your answer will depend on the information you get from your parents and grandparents.

Section 12.2

Review Key Concepts
1. Caregivers can talk, read, and listen to children from the time they are born. They can provide opportunities for children to play and learn. Caregivers can also take advantage of community resources that help meet children’s intellectual needs.

2. As children grow, they need simple explanations about expected behavior. They need to know why behavior is wrong and what to do instead.

3. Child care is physically and emotionally demanding, so it is important to have time away. Couples can share childcare responsibilities or hire a babysitter.

Practice Academic Skills

4. Use the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Web site, and search the Healthy Living section.