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  • Piaget
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    InheldChild Psychologist Jean Piaget He found the secrets of human learning and knowledge hidden behind the cute and seemingly illogical notions of children BY SEYMOUR PAPER Jean Piaget, the pioneering Swiss philosopher and psychologist, spent much of his professional life listening to children, watching children and poring over reports of researchers around the world who were doing the same. He found, to put it most succinctly, that children don't think like grownups. After thousands of interac...
  • Being The Youngest Child In A Family
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    Being the youngest child in a family has definite advantages and disadvantages. On the one hand, babies are fussed over and pampered. They enjoy special status in the pecking order and often get away with behavior that other family members can't. On the other hand, many youngest children feel that they never quite measure up to their more experienced and accomplished siblings. To borrow a phrase from a famous comedian, they get no respect. Psychologists use a variety of words to describe last-bo...
  • Parents And Children
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    By increasing public space in this area, shopping along the strip can take place without the disruption of traffic, commercial industry already located along the beach will profit. More people that are frequenting the beach simply to go to the beach will be attracted to the shops that emanate colour, vibrancy and seek out the curious. This will also create an opportunity for parents to take their children out for gatherings with other friends, create more relaxation while doing errands by having...
  • Programs Products
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    Born to Buy: Worth the Read! Have you ever been disgusted by the racy, suggestive clothing that today's teenagers sport? Ever been shocked by the appalling content on TV and movies these days? Ever shake your head at the messages delivered by commercials? Juliet Schor agrees with you! Schor, a keen observer and analyst of trends in American culture, goes inside the world of mass marketing to their prime target? children. Na " ive and susceptible, children are the perfect consumers for the busine...
  • Cognitive Abilities Of Children With Fas
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    There are different characteristics that accompany fetal alcohol syndrome or FAS in the different stages of a child's life. 'At birth, infants with intrauterine exposure to alcohol frequently have low birth rate; pre-term delivery; a small head circumference; and the characteristic facial features of the eyes, nose, and mouth' (Phelps, 1995). Some of the facial abnormalities that are common of children with FAS are: small head size, small eye openings, broad nasal bridge, flattened mid-faces, th...
  • Dr Seuss
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    The Man Behind the Hat "More and more tension as if over inflating a balloon until the readers can not stand waiting for the "pop!" and then there is no pop, just deflation of the balloon (Hurst 2)". A perfect example of a writer named Theodor Seuss Geisel, also known as "Dr. Seuss". A man who some think created, "the world of imagination" as we know it in children's literature. Theodor Seuss Geisel wrote and illustrated many books and sold millions of copies. He created catch phrases and captur...
  • Wang Lung
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    # Quotes / Responses Page #1 "There was a woman coming to the house. Never again would Wang Lung have to rise... at dawn to light the fire. He could lie in his bed and wait. 2 This quote shows the reader the kind of role the woman was supposed to have in her family. She was to do all of the housework, cooking... Basically she takes care of the man's every need. 2 " 'Come here, slave,' said the old lady carelessly. 'This man has come for you. ' " 13 Female children were often sold as slaves to ri...
  • Children In Divorced And Intact Families
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    Since there is a lot discussion of the effects of divorce on children, I choose this to be my topic. In 1991 Amato and Keith (researchers) examined the results of 92 studies using 13,000 children ranging from preschool to young adults to determine what the overall results indicated. The overall result of this study was that children from divorced families are on 'average's ome what worse off than children who have lived in nuclear families. These children have more trouble in school, more behavi...
  • 75 Non Exposed Children
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    It has been estimated by the National Institute on Drug Abuse that every year 40,000 babies are born to mothers who have used cocaine during their pregnancy. Unfortunately, the outcome is unfair for these children, because the mothers do not take into consideration that they are responsible for another person's life. These children have various levels of deficiencies in the learning process and in the way that they behave. The levels of deficiencies in children vary in accordance with the mother...
  • Economical Development And The Improvement Of Education
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    Probably no country in the world pays so much attention to its descendants as China does. The old saying, More children equal to more happiness, has been hold as a strong belief for thousands of years. It is well known that the large population was one of biggest burden of China's further development. Therefore, the Chinese government carried out the family planning policy in the late 70's, using this coercive means, in order to control the population growth. But, a unique phenomenon is that as ...
  • Corporal Punishment In Schools
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    Using corporal punishment in schools is not benefiting our children. In fact, it may be hurting our children more than helping them, and teaching them the wrong way to deal with their problems. I feel that discipline starts at home, and should not be left for the schools to handle. Corporal punishment may do more harm than good. It 'has no positive effects that we know of' (Keeshan 67). It may stop the unruly behavior temporarily, but it does not treat the underlying causes (Keeshan 67). 'Unruly...
  • Majority Of The People
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    When you think about children, chances are you think of them getting up in the morning, going to school then coming home and going outside to play. Sadly this isn't always the case. In other countries, children are locked up inside being forced to work. Is it fair that a child is forced to work a twelve-hour shift, seven days a week earning only seven cents an hour? This means if a child were to work eighty-four hours a week (when the maximum is 60 hours a week), then they will have only earned ...
  • Their State O In Criminal Court Juveniles
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    Introduction: Even the most noble of societies can't escape crime. Most choose to ignore the fallacies of urban youth be it in the ghetto or the suburbs, our children are becoming victims of their own ignorance. The lure of "street" life out weighs the yearning for a competent education. The media, audio and visual glorify a lifestyle that average people lust for. Most children compare the lifestyle of entertainers to their own creating a yearning for riches, and begin to emulate the behaviorism...
  • Solutions Help Children
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    Child Welfare History Essay Children have been an issue since they have existed and even today, us as a society still do not know the answer to the question, what should be done about the children The only thing that we do know is that our views and the problems relating to children are still there, but have evolved to today's problems with society. Not only are we still unable to answer the question stated previously, but also there are new questions arising about our youth such as, how are we ...
  • Violet And Joe
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    Violet thought it would disappoint them; that it would be less lovely than Baltimore. Joe believed it would be perfect. When they arrived, carrying all of their belongings in one valise, they both knew right away that perfect was not the word. It was better than that. Joe didn't want babies either so all those miscarriages - two in the field, only one in her bed - were more inconvenience than loss. And citylife would be so much better without them. Arriving at the train station back in 1906, the...
  • Tom Gradgrind
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    Hard Times, by Charles Dickens, was a representation of his time. Times were hard for children and adults alike. People who questioned what they were taught, often went through struggles and "hard times". Eventually, the people who were looked down were the ones who really helped those in need. Throughout the book, there are many ironic instances. Thomas Gradgrind was a man built on the idea that facts and statistics were the only truth in life and all that was needed to have a healthy and produ...
  • Risk Of Road Accidents
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    Nursing And Health Assignment Two Government White Paper - Our Healthier Nation Key Area - Accidents Tutor - Karen Clarke By Natalie Me rga Introduction In this assignment I will be discussing the Governments aims in regards to reducing injury and death from accidents as proposed in the white paper ' Our Healthier Nation'. Accidents are responsible for over 10,000 deaths a year, they are the single greatest threat to children and young people. Those that come from a poorer background are at an i...
  • Refugee Children In Canada
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    Refugee Children In Canada: Searching For Identity The authors of the article analyze the broad variety of stresses and hardships facing refugee children in Canada, as a result of their past. As defined by the UN, refugees are persons (children or adults), who are residing outside of their countries and cannot return due to a well-founded fear of persecution, because of their race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group. Canada, as one of the few cou...
  • Convention The Uk Government
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    'The UN Convention On The Rights Of The Child' was ratified by the UK on 16 December 1991. In doing this, the Government agreed to make all laws, policy and practice compatible with the convention. The convention gives all children and young people under the age of 18 set rights, including the "right to express and have their views taken into account on all matters that affect them; the right to play, rest and leisure and the right to be free from all forms of violence" (web accessed 10/11/03). ...
  • Number Of Defiant Acts Of Kindergarteners
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    Even with many confounding variables present, the evidence gathered clearly shows that pre-school children are more defiant and disregard rules more frequently than that of kindergarten children. During our one-hour observation, equally divided between the two groups, we encountered several confounding variables that may have altered our results. However, they would have done so in favor of the pre-school children having a lesser number of defiant events compared to that of the kindergarteners. ...

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