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**Chapter 1** **Family—Essential for a Child’s Development** //This chapter stresses the importance of families, schools, and communities understanding, respecting, and valuing one another to assist children in their healthy overall development. (Page 2-15) // **__OBJECTIVES (also in text)__**
 * 1) Discuss the concept of **funds of knowledge** as it relates to families and how this helps to increase collaboration between families, communities, and schools.
 * 2) Explain how the Family Ecological Systems Theory provides opportunities for all families to learn to use the teachers, school, and community as resources to assist them in the development of their children.
 * 3) Identify and explain research on attachment that illustrates the need for early attachment of children with a parent or significant caregiver.
 * 4) Discuss breakthroughs in neuroscience research on brain development and what it means for families.

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