Consider a family in which the parents are very concerned with their children's educational success but who struggle to provide enough books, activites, and outings that can enhance their children's development. sean reardon's work ideantifies four explanations.

According to Sean Reardon, there are different reasons that should be considered in the development and achievement of goals in children's life that sometimes can or cannot be controlled by their parents.

Explanation:

According to Sean Reardon, there are different reasons that should be considered in the development and achievement of goals in children's life that sometimes can or cannot be controlled by their parents.

In the first place, he says it is necessary to pay special attention to the way in which children are intellectually involved, Reardon explains the importance of teaching kids how to be interested in the cognitive process with activities such as reading.

In the second place, the author explains that it is also important to provide the necessary material for the intellectual development of the children, he mentions that of course, it is primordial to provide  and satisfy the basic needs of the being such as food and a roof to live in. Nevertheless, those basic need do not represent the only needs, due to the fact that the intellectual and cognitive development are also primordial in children.

In the third place, Reardon mentions the importance of the parents' knowledge and skills to share their experience with the children, because once they are the first and most important figure for them, they need to be focussed in offering the pertinent information in a clear and consistent way-

And finally, the author expresses about the concept of residential segregation, in which he focuses on the importance of offering children a good place home, safe, good schools and the possibility to develop activities that can contribute to a good development. In this part, with the segregation term, he explains how there is always going to be a difference among the social classes, the richer the family, the better places they will have. Nonetheless, it is always necessary with kids to make an extra effort to offer them the best environment.

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