1-After reviewing pages 375-386 in your course text, summarize how children’s socializing experiences relate
to the physical, economic, social, and personal conditions of the community in which they live.
2-Communities can offer families vital prevention, support, and rehabilitation services. Review pages 390-396
in your text. Choose one example from each of these areas and explain why each is integral to healthy child
and family development.
3-It can be said that caring communities “improve the opportunities for every young person, regardless of
circumstances, to become a healthy, secure, educated, economically self-sufficient, and productive adult”
(Berns, 2015, p. 396). From your perspective as a future early childhood professional, identify and explain
three ways that a caring community can meet the needs of young children and their families, including those
with the greatest needs.