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Media and its Influence on Children

true that if the parents do their part, in a very active way, the media can prove far less damaging. However, there is ultimately ...

Third Grade Health/How to Protect Your Skin

so that they will not get skin cancer from getting sunburned. The saying means to "slip on a shirt, slop on sunscreen, slap on a h...

Children & Junk Food/A Media Slant

on family food purchases of "cereal, candy and fast food" has been estimated to account for $500 billion per year (Lopes). This fi...

Dickens/Utilitarianism & Hard Times

he is absolute appalled that Sissy does not know the scientific definition for "horse," and that his own children have been tempte...

No Child Left behind; Data Analysis, Discussion and Recommendations

attainment figures. It is also notable that after a period of improvements the last few years, 2003 - 2005 appear to have...

Selling Pokemon to the West

it. This demonstrated that it was possible, however it was determined that there was a large potential. The games that were devel...

Harris & Weiss/Topics in Autism

the "Yu Family," with parents Harold and Grace. Eddie is their oldest child. Eddie is such a "good" baby, demanding little attenti...

Media's Responsibility for the Obesity Epidemic

would work to resolve the problem and in fact, some people report that religious activity has helped them lose weight. The author ...

Lead Poisoning

of paint chips. The primary method of exposure is when the child lives in an older homes that have been contaminated by lead paint...

Learning Disabilities in Young Children

disability is limited proficiency in English, or "lack of instruction in reading or math" (Guidelines, 1999). The guidelines also ...

Jane Eyre as a Child

"sympathize" with her, as she was the opposite of them in "temperament, in capacity,...a useless thing, incapable of serving their...

Alcoholism: Children of Alcoholic Parents

2007). In first examining this condition, from a broad perspective, it is helpful to note some of the facts concerning families/ch...

African American Culture and Child Rearing

community. Case workers admitted that they sometimes believe that African-American men in general are absent, peripheral or abusiv...

Taxation & School Revenue

policy survey conducted by this journal, the editorial then relates how various states are approaching this problem. This shows th...

Piaget/Elementary & Middle-School

symbols, such as numbers in more complex ways; however, their thinking is, as yet, not entirely logical. The full development of c...

Child Development: Recent Theories

contribution was his theory of developmental stages. Since Santrocks book covers early childhood through adolescence, it coincides...

In Support of Child Labor (Annotated Bibliography and Summary)

well. This source is valuable as it shows the other side of the story. However, it is not unique. This is the more popular point o...

Creativity

activity than the adults brain (Jalongo, 2003). Theta waves are those that are active during the time "between being awake and fal...

Parenting Styles And Attachment

parents provide the kind of nurturing and care the baby needs, the five senses are positively stimulated" (Smith, no date). Pare...

Psychological Aspects Of Motivation

- serves to stimulate better performance. Special populations require adapted motivational techniques in order to achieve the des...

Oral Language & Lessons Plans

twice-weekly in 15-minute sessions. The adult reading the books asked both literal and inferential questions of the children using...

Various Psychology Assignments

several European universities have parapsychology departments that investigate ESP, 96 percent of the scientists of the US Nationa...

The Effects of Parental Mental Illness on Children

childbirth or it might be from a longstanding illness, but certainly, there is some risk when mentally ill parents have children. ...

Mother's Perspective/Asperger Syndrome

years before Jimmys parents even had a definitive diagnosis of AS. Once Fling and her husband had a diagnosis, they found that exp...

Attachment And Separation

for their future relationships and interactions (Pendry, 1998; Practice Notes, 1997). There are three conditions for attachment de...

Media Violence and Aggressive Behavior in Children and Teens

2006). The media is in fact a catalyst for violent expression on more than one societal front (DuRant, Champion and Wolfson, 2006...

Physical Child Abuse

population believes that spanking is allowable, although there are also likely many of those individuals who would prefer spanking...

Picky Eaters

they fail to do so is that their "food preferences and practices are initiated early in life" (Nicklas et al, 2001). Nicklas argue...

Child Development Birth To Age Six Years

conflicts does not come for years and sometimes, it is never completely resolved. The superego develops more during these years, a...

Depression Treatment: Annotated Bibliography

This also is a literature review, one that focuses on an evidence-based approach to determining the value of prescribing psychoact...