REAL LIFE EXAMPLES # 3   By: Stephenie Coney Bronfenbrenner’s Bioecological Theory has four specific layers

REAL LIFE EXAMPLES # 3

By: Stephenie Coney

Bronfenbrenner’s Bioecological Theory has four specific layers. The first being the microsystem, layer in which the child has relationships and interactions with their immediate surroundings. This includes family, school, and even neighborhood environments. The parents, and the school teachers influences the child the most, they are consistently with the child majority of the time. The child’s parents may affect them just a little bit more, simply because the parents are basically with them through the most important developmental stages of their lives.

I think this is true, because I have witnessed two children develop differently because of the different environment that they were exposed to. One of the children lived with his single mother that constantly had a different man coming in out of their home. There was always someone different coming to pick him up from childcare. We would see the mother not very often, so we could tell that the child was not getting any attention at the home. He would see with his own eyes, violent behavior between his mother and these male figures. I would say that the type of environment that he was in was not the best and it did influence him. He would come to the daycare and act up for no apparent reason; he would hit on the little girls in his class and say mean things to them. This is the reason why Bronfenbrenner says the Microsystem level is the most important layer, because the children will always imitate what they see at home.

How is development helped or hurt? , summarize the two examples here.  5-6 sentences.