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Television and Its Negative Effects on Children

comes to witnessing violence, there is a fear that the exposure to such things is enough to trigger violent behavior. In some inst...

Obesity in American Children

While obesity observes no geographic or socioeconomic boundaries, it can be more prevalent in some groups than in others. It can ...

The Positive Aspects of Spanking Children

is both ineffective and harmful. Still, parents must have some sort of technique for disciplining unruly kids. These are the two s...

Teaching Children to Read: A Research Guide

sound components of a word and so can break a word down by sounds (NRP, 2000; Kamii and Manning, 2002). The following is a classr...

Promoting Positive Attitudes in Children Towards Cultural Diversity

to resentment and bigotry. However, these fears can often be countered through education" (Hurwitt). One of the ways in which we ...

No Child Left Behind Act

actually based on true and accurate assumptions of how actual learning takes place. Many scholars, such as Johnson, argue that the...

Speech-Language Therapy/Children w/ADHD

strategies used to identify the function of the target behavior" (Stahr, et al, 2006, p. 201). In other words, an intervention is ...

Support Services for Gay and Lesbian Children and Adolescents

Although it is not uncommon to see gay and lesbian couples at the high school level, there are children who question their sexuali...

Parents and Time with Children

time together. But, as is the case with any research, any real changes in society are not really evident or available through rese...

The Needs of Small Children

at a rather rapid rate until they are walking and by that time, their need for solid food is usually met. Yet, many theorists clai...

Resources for Children and Adolescents of Gay or Lesbian Families

an idea that makes sense. In lieu of, or in addition to counseling, children are able to see that they are not the only ones who h...

Negative Impacts on Female Child Raised by Divorced Mother

of the family that ensures they "pass on their genes" when times are difficult.4 This is a very odd hypothesis, since there seems ...

Learned Mothering: Raising a Child with ADHD

ADHD as they can impact social worker response and even the response of educators. Methodology The subjects of this study were...

Language and Communication Problems Associated with Learning Disabilities (ADD/ADHD) in the School Age Child

maintain that these individuals experience "deficits in behavioral, emotional, academic, and social functioning" that follow them ...

The NAEP and No Child Left Behind

This 4 page paper provides an overview of the issue of the No Child Left Behind Act and relates the major factors influencing thos...

How I Survived Being Sexually Abused as a Child

I think of my aunt just inside the door well within earshot of what was happening right under her own roof. My story,...

Depression in Children and Adolescents

cause of death for 5-to-14-year-olds" ("Teen suicide"). Such statistics suggest that depression in childhood and adolescence can b...

Observation of a Child with ADHD

I observed his activities from 9 a.m. through lunch and into his playground period after lunch. There were multiple transitions d...

Children Who Murder

of youthful homicide perpetrators present with a history of adverse familial factors," such as "physical abuse, sexual abuse, inst...

How Punishment Harms Children

form of punishment but others take away privileges. In the latter case, a parent may rescind television-viewing privileges for a d...

Rearing a Happy, Loving and Productive Child: A Critique of the Scientology Philosophy

a child in an authoritarian way but rather essentially allow the child to do whatever it is that they want (Reitman, 2006). Scien...

Internet Safety Protection of Children

made us more aware of the need to be discerning when gathering and assimilating some of the information that the Internet provides...

Public Schools, Religion, Drug Testing, and Children with Disabilities

In other words, the first amendment allows for prayer in school so long as educators and administrators do not lead the...

Gangs and Children

that accounts for gang activity. By studying some of the biggest gangs in the nation, especially those in Chicago (The Latin King...

Development and Growth of Children from Birth to Age 3

first Piaget stage continues through the second year of life, where infants develop an understanding of the world around them by c...

The Plight of Abandoned Children in the US and the World

juvenile charges, it can be argued that this particular field holds a great deal more ethical conscience than any other. Often vu...

Perspectives of Working Parents and Children

care. Waldfogel, Han and Brooks-Gunn (2002) "found some persistent adverse effects of first-year maternal employment and some pos...

Observing A Child In A Naturalistic Setting

to each child. The capacity to embrace certain mental and emotional concepts improves with great strides as they are bound ...

American Children and Obesity

In this six page essay, the writer explores the growing issue of childhood obesity and offers behavioral solutions to this epidemi...

Review of "Filicide-Suicide: Common Factors in Parents Who Kill Their Children and Themselves"

descriptive study into this area. Purpose of the Study The purpose of the study is that which is stated by the authors in...