Hey look, you’re not a small video anymore. I like the examples you give with regard to the things factors that are out of a child’s control and how it plays into their success later in life.  With regard to “invisible inequalities” I believe you stated child rearing in regards of black and white, but the article did so more so on the basis of class. It actually stated that race didn’t matter at all. Maybe that was just a slip on your wording since you brought race into it at the end. Anyways… as I mentioned in our Thursday discussion, I think race still plays a role despite people raising their kids similarly and within the same social class and economical means, since one (or maybe each) group has a different set of stigmas to deal with despite having the same practices in child rearing.

Hey! Pictures! That is awesome. Probably should’ve drawn my snowball theory, lol. With regard to your question about which child rearing method is better. I can’t say for sure. I think both have their benefits. Having been raised mainly the way in which the article describes as “lower/poor class”, I loved my childhood. Despite this, as an adult there are things I wish now that my parents would’ve had me be involved in or having had them be more involved with. Now that I myself am a parent, I find myself wanting to raise my kids in the “middle class” way by having them be involved in activities and being actively involved in their education as well. Although at times the way I raise them can be at odds with what I expect from a parent/child relationship because of my own upbringing. For example, I want my children to voice themselves and value their opinions, but the “old school” in me doesn’t like getting lip from them either, ha ha. Unfortunately I think many people just stick to what they know and maintain tradition because raising kids a certain way can also be attached to race. So to say, if I use timeouts instead of the “chancla” I’m raising my kids white as opposed to good old fashioned Mexican. This article seems to miss on that idea, and I wish I would’ve brought it up during discussion.

 I think the Dasani article was very subtle in getting its point across. It touches on her mother’s influence, as well the role that of society and government policy plays as it regards to its effect on this group of people. Great way to tie stigma back into the article with regard to her social class in school.  Crazy to think that even among the “lower rungs of society" there is a vying for position as to who is worse or better off.  I didn’t read the last article, but your explanation, as well as how we discussed it on Thursday, gave me clear understanding of it.  I quite often find my son asking me what it is I do at work, which I often defer to speaking about what I study at school instead. His interest in knowing what I do, as arguably the most influential male figure in his young life, does seem add weight for the some basis of what the article touched on. Great point at the end by the way, describing all the articles and cumulative advantage as not defined by solely one thing.