The subleject of Tomasito is Too Big to Hold Hands , depicts a perspective of a child that is in the second grade that is of a Latino back ground and the challenges that his family faces with overall communication and motivation. Family support as well as teacher / parent communication are the bases of the case study, being that with this paper those are the two factors that should be focused on, the paper will sugest way of improvement. .A child that has minimal support and overall negative emotions towards family members can face stugglles in development. In the case of Tomasito he is developeing into more of a self reliance when it comes to out side and inside a scholld setting. Tomisitos mother and brother in the case seem to be the leading charaters in tomisitos development. The mother Ria seems to be the main henderance in Tomasitos development as she states that she is “not much good at helping” (Weiss, Kreider, Lopez, & Chatman, 2005, p.17). Statements such as this not only define the mentality of the support areond the child but the language barrier that the child has to deal with being that Tomasito speaks fluent English and the mother has no motivation to learn the second language to help keep all lines of communication open with her child and teachers. However in this case the teacher Linda is not as helpful as Tomasito may need due to her and her lack of participation in asking questions to help improvement but she takes the route of making assumptions of how tomasiots home life is structured. Linda the teacher seems to believe that Tomasito is developing to the required standards when in reality he is struggleing in the classroom as well as out side. His Brother Edward completes his math homework so that Tomasitio can receive awards at school. Tomasito stated that “I like it when I get a lot of homework stickers for perfect homework” (Weiss,