Title: Identify factors and conditions that influence individual and family development.
Course: Family and Consumer Sciences Exploratory II (19904-9) > Section: Understanding Human Development

Identification should include heredity (e.g., inherited traits) and environment (e.g., acquired traits).

Process/Skill Questions:

Thinking

- How can family dynamics influence school performance?
- What issues can have a positive effect on the family? What issues can have a negative effect?
- What factors influence your attitudes?

Communication

- What or who influences the way you dress, eat, or behave?
- How has your family’s communication patterns influenced your communication patterns?

Leadership

- What skills do family members need to become leaders?
- What traditions and social skills contribute to respectful and healthy relationships?

Management

- Which factors that affect human development (e.g., nutrition, exercise, gender, life experience, environment, position in the family, emotions, heredity, race, and nationality) can you control? Which would you find the easiest to control? The most difficult? Why?
- How can each family member contribute to the family structure?