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Toy Safety and the Fast Food Industry

customers, a position that most of the industry shares. McDonalds and Burger King have led the industry in ensuring the saf...

Barriers to Communication for Deaf Children

rather than concentrating on the disabled individual as having "deficits" within themselves (the medical model). They look at the ...

Family Life Cycle Stages

self-esteem. This is true in the family as well. Parents may have some emotional difficulties as their children grow from being li...

Anorexia in Children: Its Importance, Who is Affected, Treatments and Agencies Involved

men can develop this disorder, approximately 95% of anorexics are women (St?ppler, 2009). The disorder usually begins to appear in...

Children's Book Illustrators

"pencil or pen and ink"; however, for her finished pieces, Potter worked primarily in watercolor, adding touches of pen and ink wh...

Maltreatment: Impact Upon A Child's Cognitive And Physical Development

to the childs mental composition. If left emotionally unattended, infants learn the opposite lessons required for living within a...

Promoting Children's Confidence and Self-Esteem

research, some of the paradigms that scientists believed were true in the past have been proven wrong. For example, while previous...

The Effects of Alcoholic Parents on Their Children

(Anda et al, 2002). A study done in Spain finds that children of alcoholics are, as a group, at risk for skipping school days, pe...

Two Articles' Main Points: "Driven To Extremes" And Seasonality And Children's Blood Lead Levels"

link, with added impacts on urban childrens health (Laidlaw et al, 2005, p. 793). II. DRIVEN TO EXTREMES Human activity is...

Teen Families Canada

unskilled, dead end jobs. When school-based child care are not available, Head Start programs step in to give children of teen pa...

Suicidality and Depression in Young Children

Given that serious depression too often leads to suicide, it is a problem that simply cannot be ignored. Numerous factors enter i...

Adult Court Versus Juvenile Court

2005). It would take until the 1980s before all youth were taken out of adult jails and removed to separate facilities (Krisberg, ...

Fear And Anxiety In Children

for anxiety" (The Childrens Center for OCD and Anxiety, 2006; also see National Center for Health and Wellness, 2006). There are m...

Junk Food and Children

Such junk food is apparently readily available in many high schools, perhaps with the understanding that high school students are ...

Social Skills Learned by Young Children

in the home, and this setting cements the all-important foundation upon which future interpersonal development rests (Richardson, ...

Emotional Issues Faced by Creative and Gifted Children

provide that measure of acceptance that every youth aspires to achieve. These formations of like-minded and similarly aged teens ...

'The Children's Hour' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

the midst of conversation, a factor that appears to be typical of Longfellows verse. The entirety of the poem, while formally stru...

Children's Learning and TV's Effects

reinforced over interactive learning, it can be stated. Shows such as Barney and Sesame Street encourage small spuds to become cou...

Arguing for an Adopted Child's Right to Know Biological Parentage

is to address these two aspects of biological identity as they relate to the human right to know their biological origin. S...

Robert Louis Stevenson and Shel Silverstein: Child Poetry

Good Play" the poem is far more simplistic in relationship to how children think and play as the poems narrator states, "We built ...

Narrator Cassie in Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

older brother, is somewhat more worldly-wise: although there is only a small age difference between the two children, Stacey is mo...

Children's Literature and Authentic Voices

writer, is even more emphatic in warning against reading books about cultures written by those outside the culture, in particular ...

Books on the Mind Annotations

shirt while the other hand unbuttons it. The last section of the book deals with speculation about future discoveries relative to ...

Khaled Hosseini, Mark Twain, and Harper Lee on Childhood

I tried for a second or two to brace up and out with it, but I warnt man enough--hadnt the spunk of a rabbit. I see I was weakeni...

Scenario on Reproduction and Ethics

option. That option, however, is replete with many ethical considerations. As we shall see, those ethical considerations become ...

Children's Literary Classic The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams

a shelf, he decides to seek the counsel of the Skin Horse. He inquires what it means to be REAL, and the Horse answers, "Real isn...

Sperm or Egg Donation and Children's Rights

In five pages this paper discusses English law with regard to the rights of children who have been conceived via egg or sperm dona...

Speaking in Charlotte's Web by E.B. White

and essentially doing what no other human could, or would, do. Charlotte was also a child and as a child could perceive and acce...

Youth and Children Psychosexual Development's Influential Concepts

the inherent dangers associated with intercourse; as such, when choosing to enter into these relationships, there is a heightened ...

Research Study 'Children's Judgments About Common Classroom Punishments' Reviewed

study. However, the researchers predicted that children would "evaluate the punishments differently for the moral and conventiona...