Reilly Clancey FNED 346 2019

Creating Safe Places for Everyone Personal Connection One morning, I was walking towards my first period science class and as I turn the corner I see my best friend, Kristen. I call her name and try to get her attention but she doesn't respond. I try and catch up to her but she kept her head down and kept on walking, so I tried to call her name again. Suddenly, she turns around and says, "Reilly I can not talk right now", I could see the tears fill up in her eyes. Kristen has been my best friend since the first day of kindergarten, and I have seen her cry four times. I promise you, she naturally does not cry unless she is really upset, so when I saw the tears fill her eyes, I instantly knew something was wrong. I pulled her into a side hallway and she blurted out, "my parents are getting divorced".  I have grown up with divorced parents since the age of four, and it has almost been a normal thing for me, so I was ready to help my best friend through the...

Unintentionally Teaching Stereotypes to Children Starting from a young age, sterotypes are being forced and encouraged upon children. Simplistic things such as toys, clothes and emotions are stereotypically encouraged for children to follow. Girls are assumed to wear pink, play with dolls, and have a lot of emotions. Whereas, boys wear blue, play with cars and are supposed to be tough. Most of these steeptypes stem from society, storybooks, and cartoons. More often than not, parents have no idea that their children are being exposed to sterotypes when they read them a bed time story or put cartoons on during the morning. In Linda Christensen’s story makes “Unlearning the Myths that Blind Us,” she points out these sterotypes that exist. “Young people, unprotected by any intellectual armor, hear or watch these stories again and again, often from the warmth of their mother’s or father’s lap” -Christensen Parents try and protect their children but most of them have ...