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  • Appropriate Punishment With Their Children
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    Educational Psychology 9-13-99 Appropriate Punishment I thought it was very interesting when we discussed punishment and positive and negative reinforcement in class. I think it is very important to use positive reinforcement just as much as negative reinforcement. I also found it interesting that when you punish a child, you should do nine good things to make up for the one bad punishment. We discussed spanking in class also. I personally have never been spanked, but that is only because my fat...
  • Children's Books Focus On Shy Children
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    Understanding the Distress of Children Who Suffer from Shyness Almost everyone has felt shy at some point in his or her life. Feeling uncomfortable or anxious in a new social setting is not uncommon or something to be overly concerned about; however, there are many people whose lives suffer because of their shyness. Shyness can have many harmful effects on a person's emotional and social well being (Bruch, 1999). Even though research on shyness has mainly focused on adults, shyness can be just a...
  • Effects Of Daycare On Children
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    Daycare and the Effects on Children With the triumphs of welfare reform and the high turnout of women college graduates, mothers are increasingly, entering the workforce. As affirmed by the Wilson Quarterly (Autumn 98, Vol. 22 Issue 4), "Ben Wilda vsky, a staff correspondent for the National Journal (Jan. 24, 1998), provides statistical background. In 1997, nearly 42 percent of women with children under six were working full-time, 5 percent were looking for work, 18 percent had part-time jobs, a...
  • Their Children's Fingerprints
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    Should parents voluntarily create detailed identification records (including fingerprints) on their children in anticipation of possible runaway problems or abductions? (1) Yes. You can never tell when terrible things will happen to a child, so its best to be prepared. (2) No. Thevastmajority of missing children are not abducted. Whether abducted or not, fingerprinting will do no good. It wastes time and money and pushes us that much closer to the creation of the Orwellian National Data Centerth...
  • Their Children Into Beauty Pageants
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    The Darker Side of Children's Beauty Pageants It's 7: OO A.M. on a Saturday, kids everywhere are just waking up ready to watch their favorite line up of Saturday morning cartoons. Marie, a four year old child, is preparing for her long weekend of make-up, hairspray, and gowns. Marie is one of many children who are forced by over-demanding parents who pressure their young and innocent children into many beauty pageants each year, and its wrong. Beauty pageants first originated in Atlantic City. I...
  • Community Level Factors
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    Kyle Hutton 3-21-01 Gun Control Each year, guns end the lives of thousands of young people. Families and friends are left to cope with the loss of a life lived and to have a future overshadowed by the violence. Nearly 80% of all teenage deaths are the result of violence like homicides, suicides motor vehicle crashes and other unintentional injury ("Risk and Protective"). Teenage violence has gone up almost 300% in the last thirty years ("Teenage Violence in America", 1) and it is still rising. P...
  • 150 Pokemon Cards
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    Just a little more than year ago a Japanese series has incorporated itself into American television, and has taken the entire U.S. by storm. By now you should know what im talking about, if not were have you been. "Pokemon" a show about a young boy named Ash, and his friends Pikachu, Brock, Misty, and a cast 150 other Pokemon. I cant forget the comical bad guys Team Rocket. Pokemon has a way of life for some young kids in the way of TV series, toys, video games, t-shirts, trading cars, and recen...
  • Being An Only Child Without Siblings
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    Thesis: The Effect on being an only child on the child's personality Literature Review: Before a child has friends they have their family. Everything that they know and love about the world mostly comes from what they see around in their house. Children usually find role models in their family most of the time it is the child's sibling. Yet only children don't have that experience of living with another child and begin to develop their personality and traits from what they see in their parents. ...
  • Divorce One Parent
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    Literature Review Understanding a Preschooler The preschooler years bring rapid intellectual, physical, and emotional growth (Newman, 1998). Your preschooler's imagination is racing, and he is fascinated by everything around him. He is learning to reason, to exercise self-control, and to name and express his emotions verbally (Newman, 1998). For the first time in their lives, preschoolers begin to show signs of empathy and understanding, although they will remain predominantly self-centered unti...
  • Their Own Reading And Writing Tasks
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    Becoming Literate & Literate Traditions The first thing that comes to mind when I think about children is education. Most parents want their children to grow up and become Doctors and Lawyers and to be well off. So to help with this dream the parents try to start their children's education as young as possible. This is why there are such learning programs as Hooked on Phonics and others like Fisher Price. Both of these programs are geared towards helping children achieve literacy at early ages. ...
  • Same Sex Parents
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    Social Acceptance A child goes to school, the teacher asks, 'Have your mom come in for a 'teacher mother conference'. ' Suddenly, the child is confused. For the first time he thinks about his home setting and wonders, 'Which mom is supposed to come in? Have two moms. ' The example given is not an unusual one. It is something that happens all the time in today's society in which homosexual couples live with and rear children together. Where most children have a mother and a father, children of ga...
  • Compositional And Marketing Standards For Children's Food
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    1 Why are children getting fatter? Food is cheaper than ever, particularly the popular "value" lines. Today, it's possibly cheaper to eat snacks and ready meals than fruit and vegetables. Work and time commitments mean convenience foods are frequently selected instead of home cooking. This has become a vicious circle so children are now growing up without the knowledge and experience of cooking. Marketing campaigns for confectionery are stronger and louder than healthy eating messages. The use o...
  • Children Games
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    Children Childhood and innocence, one in the same in many options. Two young friends playing in the back yard, running after butterflies in the meadow, watching Cinderella or Winnie the Pooh in the living room covered with a blanket. These are some of the pictures that may come to mind when you think of young, innocent child. However, are all children so innocent as we tend to think I do not think so. Think how many fights occur among children in kindergarten or elementary school or things that ...
  • Hansel And Gretel Male And Female Children
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    Children play an important role in our society. They are the future of the human race and is important that they are taught how to become a man or a woman. It is up to the parents of the children to instill values and to teach their child how to behave. They must explain to them what is right and wrong, and also what to do and not too. Reading fairy tales to children is a good way for parents to bond with their children. But something the parents may not know is the meaning behind fairy tales. D...
  • Children In Early Age Parents
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    impact of modern society on children identity As human beings we are always busy by working, studying, solving family problems, etc. That's why we can t spend enough time with our children. Of course, we strive to satisfy all their needs, but we do missing their prime necessity, which is happy childhood. When I hear the creak of swing, it seems to me that the sun is bright, even if the weather is hazy. This is my childhood memory. When I was a child the sunlight came into my room every morning. ...
  • Information From The Childrens Nutrition Research Center
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    Whats That Cookin Advocacy Project Research Paper Far too many American children have diets that need improvements. I found a study done by the United States Department of Agriculture that indicates only 33% of 2 to 3 year olds have what the USDA defines as a good diet. I considered this a huge problem and wondered how I would make sure my children had nutritionally balanced diets if I were a parent. I set out to do some research on this issue and find out more about it. Little progress has been...
  • Peter An Wendy
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    The Veldt In the book The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury, there are many short stories one of these being "The Veldt". The story is told by tattoos on a traveling man's body. Another man watches the stories occur during the night. Peter and Wendy are convinced that they can do anything to get what they want no matter what the consequences. Peter and Wendy are brother and sister, they live with their parents in a happy life home. The house is electronic and fully automated. The children's room h...
  • Indigenous Children After The Treaty
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    Stolen Generation The Australian governments of the mid 1900's should all be ashamed of the way they treated indigenous Australians. Aborigines are as much a part of this country as white Australians and for them to be treated the way they were is irreconcilable. Aborigines were discriminated against through removal, lies and abuse which the government should be responsible for. For over fifty years, government policies required indigenous children to be removed from their families in an attempt...
  • Children Of Neglectful Parents
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    Children are born with a pre- destined template that determine their individual and unique characteristics. Although we are all different, we share similar qualities. Society welcomes people who are kind, honest and genuine. A parent's goal is to raise a child that is accepted by society. As children grow parents continually teach their children to do the right thing and be kind to others in order to be well equipped for the adult world. Additionally, a parent will attempt to suppress a child's ...
  • Way Of Music Censorship Towards Children
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    Censorship is a word with many meanings. In a broadcast sense the word censor, according to the Pocket Oxford Dictionary (seventh edition 1984), means "an official with power to suppress whole or parts of books, plays, films, letters, news, etc... on the grounds of obscenity, or threat to security."Suppress" and "obscenity" are the key words in that definition. Censorship occurs when we watch television or a movie, listen to the radio or buy music, or even read a book or magazine. Censorship als...

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