“… family adversity -including instability in parents’ relationships- has been identified as a fairly consistent accelerator of pubertal timing.” (Johnson, Crosnoe, Elder, 2011, p. 4)

              There are a few remarks from this research that I don’t agree with or not convinced by, but they’re usually followed by: “The possibility needs to be studied more explicitly,” or “future research efforts should include…” One comment I strongly agree with from this article is that if there is instability in the student’s parents’ relationship it could accelerate ‘pubertal timing.’ Basically, any or some instability at home that is witnessed by the student can cause consequences in their school career, for example: creating bad habits like poor time management, being unmotivated or unorganized. I can relate to this because my home life affected how I was as a student, from primary school and sometimes even now as a graduate student. I didn’t have teachers that would notice my bad habits and try to help me through them. During my first year of college I had to work on reversing my bad habits, and to this day I’m still working on it. In my future classroom I hope to know what my students home life is like or if they’re going through a tough moment, but there’s that possibility that I may not know what’s going on in their personal life. For that reason, I think as an educator we should all incorporate mini workshops on how to manage time and how to be organized so that we can remind students that it is possible to be on top of their work, and to keep their education first.