What are the details of our daily existence? What systems dominate our lives? What meanings can we make of our situation?

This social studies/humanities course will steal from various disciplines - including anthropology, critical theory, cultural studies, economics, futurology, history, philosophy, political science, psychology, and sociology - to help us make sense of our situation.

A major goal of the course will be to focus your attention on your own life. Together we will investigate major systems that create and rule our lives including capitalism, school, family, popular culture, and the US government. And we will figure out how to interpret our lives, and these systems, and the collision of our lives and these systems.

We will detour into the future and the past but our journey will be primarily contemporary.

Sunday, May 16, 2010

HW 57 - Parenting 101

Part 1: Your initial thoughts
  • How should kids be parented?
  • What should be the social arrangements? An extended family, nuclear family, a village, corporate day care?
  • What should be the guiding principles? Love? Obedience? Loving obedience? Humor? Empowerment? Subordination? Time outs? Separate cribs or co-sleeping? Breast feeding or bottle? Child-centered or parent-centered? etc.
  • What were the best parts of how you were parented (since the worst parts don't really belong in a public class blog)?
  • How do you think you'd parent if you're put in that position?
  • Do you think babies should be treated more like adults or like puppies?
  • Do you think parenting will "come naturally" or do you think you'll have to research multiple perspectives and come up with a (possibly evolving) model in collaboration with other family members? Did your family read books about how to parent you or do informal research such as talking to other family members?

Write 2-3 paragraphs about your thoughts in response to a few of the questions above.

Part 2: First research
other stuff you find

Check out the links above and write another two paragraphs responding to two or more of the texts.

Due Wednesday, May 19th 8:30am.


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  1. Matt Personal And Political BlogMay 17, 2010 at 10:21 AM

    http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MindMoodNews/mothers-psychologically-abuse-children-bad-sex-abusers-experts/story?id=10577646

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