Social Studies (PopDevEd)

• Parenthood


  The state of being a parent
• Parenting


  The skills, experiences, abilities, and responsibilities involved in rearing and providing for the physical, emotional, intellectual, financial, and spiritual needs of the children
• Responsible parenthood


  The will and ability to respond to the needs and aspirations of the family and children. It is a shared responsibility between husband and wife to determine and achieve the desired number and spacing of their children according to their own family, life aspirations, taking into account psychological preparedness, health status, socio-cultural, and economic concerns
• Responsible parenting (RP)


  The series of decisions couples make to ensure the well-being of the family and to enable each member to fully develop his/her capabilities and potentials
• In the context of any religion, Responsible Parenting is defined as the ability of the parents to raise children in the Filipino way and to satisfy the social, economic and religious responsibilities of the family
• Parenting


  Involves the abilities, skills, responsibilities, duties and life experiences in attending to and providing for the physical, emotional, intellectual, financial, and spiritual needs of the children
• Parenting also includes the inculcation of values and the instilling of discipline. It entails a lot of hard work and great responsibilities; no time-out, no vacation or sick leave. It takes 24/7 in fulfilling parenting roles. Thus, parents face a lot of challenges. Once a parent, always a parent
• Duties and Responsibilities of Parents


  • Provision of Physical Care and Love
  • Inculcating Discipline
  • Developing Social Competence
  • Education
  • Citizenship Training
  • Teaching the Wise Use of Money
  • Financial Aspect of Responsibility
  • Spiritual Formation
• Self-confidence


  An important component of social competence, developed by praising children for their efforts and congratulating them for their successes
• Parents are the children's first teachers and the home, their first school
• Suitable learning experiences must be provided in the home to hasten their mental development as early as infancy
• Parents are duty-bound to discover and help develop their children's innate talents and abilities to the fullest extent possible
• Every child has the right to education. Parents are obliged to send and provide for their children's schooling until they finish their chosen vocational or college course
• Citizenship Training


  • Teach children a sense of nationhood and commitment to the development of the country
  • Citizenship training to acquire a perspective larger than the family
  • Sense of nationhood
  • Pride in own culture
  • Appreciation and love for the beauty and bounty of the country
  • Determination to advance the collective interests of countrymen
• Teaching the Wise Use of Money


  • Children should be taught the value of money, of thrift, and of self-reliance
  • They may be given a reasonable allowance which they, themselves, will budget according to their needs
  • They may also be provided the opportunity to buy things which they choose for themselves such as school materials and supplies
  • They should be made conscious of their share in the family budget
• Financial Aspect of Responsibility


  • Providing children with minimum basic needs such as a happy home and a good family environment, appropriate clothing, nutritious food, and health care
  • Parents should work hard to support the family sufficiently, without sacrificing quality time with their children
• Spiritual Formation


  • Parents are responsible for the spiritual formation of their children, involvement in church activities, and family prayer
  • Parents should be role models in loving, obeying, and worshipping God
• Ecosystem


  Dynamic interactions between plants, animals, and microorganisms and their environment working together as a functional unit
• Ecosystems will fail if they do not remain in balance
• No community can carry more organisms than its food, water, and shelter can accommodate
• Food and territory are often balanced by natural phenomena such as fire, disease, and the number of predators
• Niche


  The role each organism plays in an ecosystem
• Humans affect ecosystems


  We disrupt the food chain, the carbon cycle, the nitrogen cycle, and the water cycle
• Mining minerals takes a toll on ecosystems
• We need to avoid interfering in ecosystems and let nature take its course
• 1. PAT equation


  The scale of human impact (I) on the environment is equal to the product of the population size (P), consumption per person or affluence (A), and the damage done by technology (T)
• Since 1850, our population has increased fivefold, and the use of energy per person (A times T) has multiplied fourfold. Thus, in the last 150 years, our impact on the environment has increased about twenty fold
• We only have one Earth, and we cannot survive without nature
• Ozone


  A naturally occurring gas with the chemical symbol O3, which absorbs harmful ultraviolet rays from the sun
• Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) react with ultraviolet light and damage the ozone layer
• Non-renewable resource


  A natural resource that cannot be reproduced, re-grown, regenerated, or reused on a scale which can sustain its consumption rate
• Renewable resource


  A natural resource that is replenished by natural processes at a rate comparable or faster than its rate of consumption by humans or other users
• Renewable resources must be carefully managed to avoid exceeding the environment's capacity to replenish them
• Population growth has impaired the productivity of renewable natural resources and their provision for environmental services
• Renewable natural resources sensitive to human-induced pressures include fisheries, forest products, rangelands, freshwater resources, the atmosphere and genetic diversity
• Population growth and non-sustainable development are both causes for concern in Asia
• Much of the population growth projected for the next few decades will occur in countries that are least capable of coping with additional stress on land, water, and other natural resources
• Economic and industrial development in Asia is accompanied by changing patterns of consumption
• Perspectives on population growth and environmental pressure

  • Those who view population numbers per se as the main culprit
  • Those who place more blame on economic development, non-sustainable agricultural and industrial practices, and excessive or wasteful consumption
• Both population growth and non-sustainable development are cause for concern in Asia