Stage 4: Families with School Children

Question 1

What is the period does Stage 4: Families with School children take place?

Answer 1

When oldest child is between ages of 6 and 13

Question 2

Name the 4 developmental tasks in Stage 4: Families with School children.

Answer 2

a. Allowing greater independence
b. Opening family boundaries to accommodate new social institutions
c. Understanding and accepting role changes
d. Promoting educational achievement and fitting in with the community of families with school-age children

Question 3

What are the positions in Stage 4: Families with School children?

Answer 3

Wife/mother

Husband/father

Daughter/sister

Son/brother

Question 4

What is the EPT in Stage 4: Families with School children?

Answer 4

Allowing child to establish relationships outside the family

Question 5

What are the 2 second order changes in Stage 4: Families with School children?

Answer 5

a. Extending family interactions with society

b. Encouraging educational achievement

Question 6

What are the 3 issues in Stage 4: Families with School children?

Answer 6

Family tasks in this stage involve:
1. OPENING FAMILY BOUNDARIES TO ACCOMMODATE NEW SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS
o supporting the child’s adjustment to a formal learning situation in which he or she interacts cooperatively with peers and authority figures other than parents.
o learn to adjust to a regulated routine.
o Arrangements on care and supervision before and after school hours, during school vacations and holidays, and other school closures.

2. PROMOTING EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT AND FITTING IN WITH THE COMMUNITY OF FAMILIES WITH SCHOOL AGE CHILDREN
   o Assist children to acquire necessary skills and attitudes for survival in a school environment.
   • Optimal development: Skills required to negotiate this phase include organizing, cooperating, and supporting family members.
3. OTHERS
   • At this stage, differences in family income levels become strikingly apparent, and some children notice that their schoolmates have more possessions and are involved in more activities.
   o Classmates may have more clothes, toys, access to recreational services, and spending money even if they attend the same school.
   o Low-income parents may find out-of-school care too expensive and may be unable to make safe after-school arrangements because of inadequate income for child care or no extended family support.

• Working parents: The growing participation of both parents in the workforce has affected family life enormously. Parents face tremendous challenges as they try to juggle work responsibilities, child-rearing tasks, and household chores while attempting to meet their own personal needs.
• Single parents: The demands are even more difficult for single parents, as they often have fewer economic resources and assume all household and child care responsibilities alone.