ACEs
Parenting Styles
Vocab
Miscellaneous
Challenge
100

What are the three different types of Abuse

What is Physical, Emotional, and Sexual

100

A student doesn't understand the work that they're given at school. Instead of their parents helping them, they scold them and punish them. What parenting style is this?

What is Authoritarian

100

Is a form of persistent mental manipulation designed to make victims question their reality, memories, or sanity, often to gain control.

What is Gaslighting

100

What is the difference between Discipline and Punishment?

What is discipline is correction and progressive, while Punishment is mainly defined as control and counterproductive to a child's health.

100

What's the difference between Authoritative and Authoritarian?

Authorative: Constructive

Authoritarian: Controlling

200

How are ACEs apparent in Black and Hispanic students in school?

Higher Rates: Approximately 61% of Black children and 51% of Hispanic children have experienced at least one ACE, compared to 40% of white children.

Multiple ACEs: Black and Hispanic students are over-represented among those with two or more ACEs, with rates more than twice as high for Black children compared to white peers in some regions.

Distinct Stressors: While parental divorce is the most common ACE for white students, economic hardship and housing insecurity are the leading adversities for Black and Hispanic students.

200

A child throws their brother’s phone after being denied his console. The parent confiscates the child’s phone and sells their non-essential items to reimburse the brother. What parenting style is this?

What is Authoritative 

200

A range of traumatic experiences (abuse, neglect, etc.) that occur in childhood, usually before the age of 18.

What is Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)

200

Name at least 2 resources you can use to help foster your academic and person growth.

Bridgeport Caribe Youth Leaders (BCYL)

Cardinal Shehan Center

Wakeman Boys and Girls Club

Full Circle Youth 

The Buddy Jordan Foundation

Proyecto Nueva Vida (CASA Inc.)

Greater Bridgeport Mentoring Collaborative (GBMC)

200

What's the difference between poverty and deep poverty?

Poverty is being in a state of extreme financial misfortune, while deep poverty is that but with a income of under 50% the poverty threshold

300

A parent publicly shames their child’s grades to another sibling/classmate and uses shame as a motivator for their child. How could this affect the student’s learning capabilities and self-esteem?

What is: 

Become emotionally distant from others

Avoids classes altogether

Doesn't interact with peers or adults

300

A child describes their parent as “cool because they leave me alone and let me do whatever I want.” The parent provides necessities but rarely asks about the child’s emotions, school life, or struggles. What parenting style is this?

What is Uninvolved

300

The inability to manage the intensity and duration of emotions, resulting in reactions (anger, sadness, anxiety) that feel overwhelmingly strong and disproportionate to the situation.

What is Emotional Dysregulation

300

What are 2 out of the 4 things that you should search or avoid in a role model?

Positives:Predictability, Reliability, Active, Non-judgmental Listening, Willingness to be Vulnerable, Respect for Your Pace

Avoid:Selectively Generous, Defensive or Blaming, Inconsistent Values, Transactional Relationship

300

Which learning styles focuses on High Warmth (connection with their child)?

Authoritative

Permissive

400

What is one potential outcomes of unresolved trauma?

What is Chronic unemployment and poverty; 

Lower likelihood of post-secondary education attainment; and Persistent, long-term mental health challenges.


400

A parent rarely enforces strict rules or punishments, allowing their child to make many personal decisions independently. At the same time, the parent listens to the child’s concerns and well-being. What is this parenting style?

What is Permissive 

400

A society's hierarchical ranking of people into layers based on wealth, income, race, education, and power, creating unequal access to resources and opportunities.

What is Social Stratification

400

What is the difference between Uninvolved and Free-Range parenting?

What is Free-range parenting gives kids independence with support and involvement, while uninvolved parenting gives kids independence because the parent is emotionally detached or absent.

400

Which learning styles is Low Warmth?

Uninvolved

Authoritarian

500

Explain how punitive punishments at home can negatively affect academic performance in students at school.

Impaired Cognitive Functioning

Reduced School Engagement & Attendance Reduced Self-Regulation

Increased Antisocial and Disruptive Behavior

Lowered Social Competence.

500

A parent allows their child significant independence in daily decisions with few strict rules or consistent structure. They rarely step in unless something becomes serious. The parent is warm and supportive when approached, but does not usually set direction or actively guide day-to-day choices. What parenting style is this?

What is Free-Range

500

The structured ranking of individuals or groups based on wealth, income, and power. 

What is Economic Hierarchy
500

What is the difference between how ACEs and parenting styles affect advantaged communities compared to Black and Hispanic communities? 

What is:

Black and Hispanics have higher exposure to community ACEs (poverty, discrimination, violence)

In advantaged communities, parenting styles are more likely to reflect individual family choice rather than safety adaptation.

Parenting is more harsher in Black and Hispanic communities compared to more advantaged communities because of the heightened ACE exposure.

500

What does ACEs stand for?

What is Adverse Childhood Experiences?
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