Parent Child Interview

Children are more likely to interact with peers than adults since they spend more time at school. Shaffer said that between the ages of 2 and 12, children spend more and more time with peers less and less time with adults (Rubin, Bukowski, & Parker, 2006; Shaffer, p 454). For purposes of confidentiality, the pseudonym of the children will be Vick and Dick. Vick is the eight years old boy, and dick is 12-year-old.
The first question I asked them is do you like to work in a group or individually. Vick thought he would like to work in a group because he thought he can help them, and they can help him. However, Dick would like to work individually because he likes to think independently. Then, I asked them “Do you know what peer relationship is?”
My goal on parent interview is to see parent’s view on peer relationship, family relationship education, and her opinion on children’s social skills. I would name her Mindy. I asked Mindy what does she teach her children on peer relationship. She said the basic greeting is needed, need to say hi to peers when they meet. Next, I asked her about if she thinks her children have positive relationship with their peers. Her answer was yes because they talk, play, and share food and toys together. Mindy understands the importance of peer relationship, and the positive and negative effects. She thinks when they study together, the peers would encourage each other to focus on their works and increase the quality. However, when they are with some peers who do not listen well and behave negatively, these could influence the children’s attitude that sometimes, children would learn to behave negatively. Even though there are negative effects on peer relationship, Mindy would still encourage her children to interact with their peers on education and play together to promote their social skills. In the article “Peer Effects in Preschool Classrooms: Is Children’s Language Growth Associated With Their Classmates’ Skills?”, Justice explained that if children do indeed learn directly from one another, higher achievement levels among one’s peers should have a positive and direct effect on a child’s learning (Thrupp et al., 2002; Justice, 2011). As what I stated above, Dick and Vick think they have good social skills; however, Mindy has different opinion. She said no. She thought her children are too shy. When someone they do not know, they are too shy and not willing to communicate with others even though a simple task to ask the server have an extra plate. Moreover, when others do not initiate the conversation, they would not interact with them proactively. She thinks her children need to work on their