Nuclear family is a kinship group consisting of parents, their children, and close relatives.

Active listening is a technique of sensitivity that includes picking up on a speaker’s verbal and nonverbal messages.

Culture includes the various understandings, traditions, and guidance of the groups to which we all belong.

Knowledge of community resources is something every early childhood educator should believe to be important in order to share information with families. 

The old model of family involvement involved the parent and child and teacher at different corners of a triangle.  The new model

Turf is an area of familiarity over which one asserts authority.

Two way communication is communication sent from school to inform families without expectation of response.

Extended family is a social unit comprised of parents and children.

Reflecting is giving back to a speaker words that convey the listener’s impression of the speaker’s meaning.

Separation anxiety is defined as feelings of gladness or joy experienced when family members, particularly children and parents, are apart from one another.  This is experienced mostly in older children and teenagers.