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Please answer all the questions.

For this Discussion, take time to think about what family means to you, who in your family influenced you as a child and what ways? Were there particular rituals, triumphs, challenges related to growing up in your family that come to mind? I am from Barbados, West Indies and a female.After you have taken time to think about the family and childhood?

*Create a poem or song representation of what family means to you.

* What you hoped to illustrate in your representation of family and what you learned from the process?

*Your personal working definition of family including the people (and/or pets) who came to mind.

*How understanding your family, along with having a comprehension definition of family, can help you become more "in tune" with the children and families with whom you work and why this is essential to effective equity (e.g. Anti-Bias Education).

*One new idea, insight, or question related to culture, family culture, or diversity.

*A brief explanation why you think this idea, insight, or question enhances your understanding of cultural diversity of family cultures.

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Rosen, M.J. (2010). Nontraditional families and childhood progress through school. Demography, 47(3), pp.755-775.

Weiss, R.,& Toolis, E.E(2010). Parenting across cultural contexts in the USA. Assessing parenting behaviour in an ethnically and socioeconomically diverse sample.