Ecology of the Child

1. “The more numerous the qualitative links or interrelationships between the child’s microsystems, the more impact they have on socialization.”  Roberta M Berns

1.1. We have a great influence on our environment, but the environment also has just as much influence on us.

2. Children can be molded and changed, but we still need to give them the opportunity to be themselves and develop those unique characteristics that they were born with.

3. A society can be changed through love.

4. "Human Ecology involves the biological, psychological, social, and cultural contexts in which a developing person interacts and the consequent processes that develop over time."

4.1. This process of ecology is effected by Bronfenbrenners ecological system: Microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem and chronosystem.

5. “This highest order of the priesthood society is founded on the doctrines of love, service, work, self-reliance, and stewardship,all of which are circumscribed by the covenant of consecration.” President Kimball

5.1. As we give to those who are in need, it is reciprocated back to us and continues in one big cycle.