JONATHAN GRUPENACHER ESLL 26 HOLLY CROWER ESSAY 2 DRAFT 1 CHILDREN NEED TO PLAY, NOT COMPETE Competing between the ages of six and twelve can affect the physical and psychological development of a child and provide wrong thoughts to people. As Jessica Statsky mentions in “Children Need to Play, Not Compete,” the expectation of always winning and the fear of being hurt can depress and discourage children. Also, competing can be considered counterproductive, since players are eliminated before being ready to enter into contest. Additionally, even though the risk of injury is very small, children are not yet physically prepared to crash into others. Finally, competing involves a lot of pressure, which unconsciously makes kids focus only on winning.
However, to put a child on trial as an adult only furthers the crime. One specific reason that a child who commits murder should not be tried as an adult is that a child does not have the ability to understand and process complex legal issue or consequences. There has been research to prove this very point. In a study that was released by the Associated Press on March 3, 2003, it states that “children under the age of age of eighteen do not have the complex reasoning skills needed to understand a legal proceeding” (Kaczor, 2003). In addition, children under the age of eighteen that were studied were given an intelligence test.
But in a nascent industry with relatively no standards for advertising, media watchdogs, educators and even some gamemakers are worried. "This kind of marketing is designed to operate at a subconscious level. And kids don't know how to think critically about how someone's trying to get them to be loyal to a brand or buy their products," said Kathryn Montgomery, a professor in the School of Communication at American University and author of Generation Digital: Politics, Commerce and Childhood in the Age of the Internet. Montgomery said the purpose of ads in 3D worlds is often to blur the lines between content and product marketing, and that that's not a new concept. Product companies creating branded content to appeal to kids is as old as the first days of television.
At this time period children do not have the capability to use reason. Parenting style has a major impact on children and their temperament. Neglectful, uninvolved parenting can lead to children feeling sad and lonely [ (Berger, 2011) ]. Child abuse is defined as “deliberate action that is harmful to a child’s physical, emotional, or sexual well-being” [ (Berger, 2011) ]. Two warning signs of child abuse or child maltreatment are hostility toward others and impulsive reactions.
This then links in with the types of setting because it could affect the planning, if there is children who are being child minded, there is only one adult compared to however many children there are. The resources affect planning because if the setting doesn’t have enough money to buy the equipment to play then the children won’t have anything to play with. Also if the resources aren’t clean this would affect the children and prevent them from playing with the toys. Health and safety can stop the
Should Students Be Paid to Gain an Education? Kids should not expect to earn money to receive an education they are fortunate to have. In the New York Times article “Rewards for Students Under a Microscope” Lisa Guernsey explains that “Research suggests that rewards may work in the short term, but have damaging effects in the long term.” Children are clearly motivated for short periods of time which does not address long term educational needs and goals. In my opinion as a student I do not think we should be paid to go to school, because for hundreds of years kids have had the honor and expectation to learn. As technology advances, it seems students are becoming lazy, and losing interest in the opportunity for an education.
Material deprivation can also extend to before formal education, with middle class young children being given educational toys, whilst working class children are far less likely to receive these expensive toys and are more likely to be given non-educational toys. This is arguably one of the most important factors, as it is a huge hindrance on the intellectual development of an individual to be cut off from information that their peers have access to, and that they need to be effective in their progression through the education system. Cultural deprivation is a theory stemming from home background that is argued to have an effect on educational achievement. Cultural deprivation is the inadequate socialisation and pre-primary education of young children. Cultural deprivation can include speech codes, the way parents interact with their children and the values children inherit.
As a practitioner I encourage children to explore, observe, solve problems, predict, discuss and consider. I feel that ICT resources can provide tools for using these skills as well as examined in their own right. ICT and everyday technology is often not being recognised enough as people think "computers" for technology. The Early years Sector, as well as parents of young children has long debated the relevance of ICT, with views ranging from those who believe it could result in socio-economic benefits (DFES, 2001) to Sigman’s opinion that ICT is completely inappropriate in early year’s settings, being detrimental to both children’s health and standards of education (O’Hara, 2004
A criticism of this method is that it is too cognitively demanding for younger children and the language is not child friendly. They would find it difficult to understand and remember 2 stories, in order to make a judgment. Nelson argued that Piaget underestimated children’s ability tin considering moral judgement, by creating a similar moral judgement task, but making it child friendly so it was clear for even 3 year olds to understand. However, Berk provided evidence to support that older kids focus more on intention than younger children. From his findings, Piaget proposed the 3 stages of moral development.
As adolescents start to gain independence, understand relationships that work and do not work make it hard for parents to let them grow, but as the adolescent sees it, parents are trying to keep them from self-expression and trying to figure out how they fit into the world around them (Bass, 2009). Media does not help adolescents acknowledge success since the media portrays physical appearance as perfection and possessions as riches causing complicated issues among adolescents (Bass, 2009). As an adult we have all gone through angry days as a teen, but the one thing the author Lyman Bass (2009) explains in the article “Adolescent Anger Management” there are signs that are beyond usual. These signs are when adolescents become defiant by the request of others, is mean to parents and other adults who hold some authority. Another signs are adolescents who are loners, depressed, trouble with expressing emotions, have few friends, and certain events trigger them into violent behaviors.