...Building Happy Healthy Children Mary Gleich English /147 January 6, 2016 Louise Gerdes, JD Building Happy Healthy Children Almost all children at one point or another have played sports. Whether children are engaging in a game of pickup basketball or playing baseball on an organized team complete with look-alike major league uniforms, chalk lines, and a fresh cut field, children love to play sports because they are having fun. Children that play sports have fun, but they are also learning important qualities that they will take away and use for the rest of their lives. Parents should encourage children to participate in sports because children learn sportsmanship, communication skills, and help build self-esteem. One reason that sports are important for children is that children learn great sportsmanship qualities. According to a Canadian editorial, when children play sports they learn how to play fair, respecting the referees’ rulings, following the rules, and being respectful (Sportsmanship is an important lesson, 2014). For example, while observing a softball game a few months back, I witnessed one of the players become physically upset because she had struck out. An opponent from the other team came over to the player and told her that she tried, and that was what mattered. This is precisely the kind of sportsmanship that team sports can teach children. In fact, according to Brandpoint (2014), parents and coaches believe that learning teamwork...
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...develops gradually from the real needs of children, offers activities that are personally meaningful to them and fully embraces developmentally appropriate practices in early childcare. To nurture the whole child, early childhood education needs to follow the fundamental principle that children are learning everywhere and all the time and that develops by connected to the environment. Instead of developmentally inappropriate early academics, children need a broad variety of learning experiences and opportunities to grow in areas such as gross and fine motor development, social-emotional development, language development, and creative expression. Connecting back to nature and the environment can develop all these domain and skills. Mastery of the skills associated with these areas is critical for healthy development as well as later academic success, and requires an educational format that is very different from a traditional elementary classroom. Studies have shown that not a lot of classroom introduce environment or conduct environment into their lesson. The benefits of having environment are not just with academic success but also as well as physical, cognitive, Psychological and a better understanding of things. For physical benefits the children can experience is an increase in physical development, the ability and capability of activities increased. If the children have a set up of patterns for an healthy, active lifestyle fewer children suffer from diseases like diabetes, obesity...
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...Running head: CHILDREN & TECHNOLOGY The overuse of technology and health concerns in child development 1 CHILDREN & TECHNOLOGY 2 The overuse of technology and health concerns in child development Technology is a remarkable achievement. It has surpassed the expectations of former inventors, physicists, and engineers, among them Nikola Tesla who predicted that mobile devices would soon be a reality (Popular Mechanics, 1909). Forward to present day and mobile devices are applied in almost every aspect of daily living. Mobile devices such as cell phones, tablets, and computers are common household items. The use of these devices serves a common purpose; efficiently complete tasks, whilst being productive. However, more often than not, technology’s use envelops its users. This is becoming more apparent in children who are maturing with technology at their fingertips. A developing child’s mind, in early stages of growth, is malleable making them more prone to develop a reliance on technology when such devices are given to them at such a young age. Reliance on technology can harm a developing child in mental, emotional, and physical aspects. The overuse of entertainment technology on a developing child raises health concerns. By fostering a mental, social, emotional, and physical foundation during child development, families can curtail the negative outcomes of technology overuse. Children and adolescents are constantly bombarded with large amounts of information...
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...Anti-Bias Education for Young Children and Ourselves Chapter Reviews Chapter five was centered around learning about culture, language, and fairness. In this chapter, I believe that the most important thing in this chapter to my learning was the figure on page 56. I felt that this was crucial to my learning because it gave me the full picture of the iceberg that is culture. In reading all the different elements that are apart of the bottom of the iceberg, I began to think about what culture really is and what all plays into it. Now knowing the different things that play into culture I can help create a classroom environment that is respectful and consistent for the students. Lastly, I really enjoyed reading the sections about bilingual students. When I was learning a second language, it was challenging for me. I can only imagine how challenging it can be for students and families to learn a second language; therefore, I think that it is truly important to support home languages. In chapter six, Deman-Sparks and Olsen Edwards discuss racial identity and fairness. The language of racial identity was on thing in this chapter that stuck out to me and I felt was important to my learning. By giving children the tools they need to explore racial identity, and by helping facilitate conversations with...
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...Girls’ Physical Director Job Description A. Identification Analysis Date | September 15, 2011 | Department | Athletics | Number of Employees | 34 (18 female, 16 male) | Promotion | Director of Physical Program Services | Initial Wage | $30,000 | Period of Training Required | 2 day overnight retreat | Number of Immediate Supervisor | Victor Manuel Ayala | Name of Analyst | Melissa González Montañez | B. Position Summary The Girls’ Physical Director manages all functions necessary to efficiently operate a well-organized and successful girls’ athletics program. The Girls’ Physical Director is the program coordinator for the Healthy Living Club, a nutritional program focused on healthy eating and being physically active. In addition, this position holds primary responsibility for program budgeting, part-time employee supervision, database management, and equipment inventory and management. The Girls’ Physical Director works directly with parents of club members and volunteers and is responsible for developing and fostering interpersonal relationships with them in order to promote a positive community environment. The Girls’ Physical Director is also expected to lead and motivate all subordinate staff members and child members of the club. C. Job Duties The Girls’ Physical Director typically: * Arranges and coordinates all scheduling, management, program budgeting, equipment dispersal and travel arrangements for girls’ sports teams...
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... The special millennial issue contains 15 empirically minded articles by eminent authors in the field of academic psychology. This field marks a deliberate steering away from the dominant “disease model” of human functioning. In the disease model, clinical psychology had become almost exclusively a science about healing damage or controlling maladaptive impulses. In contrast, the primary purpose of positive psychology is to measure, understand, and then build human strengths and civic virtues, including hope, wisdom, creativity, courage, spirituality, responsibility, perseverance, and satisfaction. The special issue is divided into 4 sections: evolutionary perspectives, positive personal traits, implications for mental and physical health, and fostering excellence. As the editors and several authors point out, positive psychology has significant implications for improving the quality of personal and professional life through applications on both individual and societal levels. The first of the 4 sections includes 2 ambitious articles that examine positive psychology within an evolutionary framework. In “The Evolution of Happiness” David Buss offers 3 hypotheses to explain why positive states of mind are so often elusive: first, the discrepancies between modern and ancestral environments; second, mechanisms evolved that are “designed” to produce subjective distress (i.e., functional jealousy and worry); and third, competitive mechanisms evolved that function to benefit 1 person...
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...immense importance of the early development of children. Erik Erikson's stage theory of psychosocial development contributed to the understanding of personality development throughout the lifespan. The lifespan development of human being involves the psychological and genetic alterations from the birth and end of the life. The progress of life is highly influenced by the hereditary and environmental factors involving the different aspects related to physical, cognitive, social, moral, and personality development (Shonkoff & Phillips, 2000). Erik Erikson felt as if middle age children between the ages of six and twelve is where they begin to develop the mental skills needed in later years.“Elementary school-aged children, who succeed in learning new, productive life skills, develop a sense of pride and competence (industry). Those who fail to develop these skills feel inadequate and unproductive (inferior)” (Carpenter & Huffman, 2010). The phase of physical development of a child is classified as gross motor skills development and fine motor skills development. Hereditary factors play an important role in the physical growth and characteristics development of the child in the middle childhood stage. Physical growth of the child can be assessed in the form of weight acquisition and physical movement of the body. One factor that affects the physical development of human beings during the middle childhood stage is Genes. The physical features and build-up of the child are based...
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...RESEARCH PROPOSAL Introduction: There are millions of young children out in the world who are left alone, unsupported, and mistreated. According to Kids Matter Incorporated, child neglect is the most common form of child mistreatment. It is important for all people to be able to recognize when a child is in the troubled path of neglect. Whether it is physical abuse or emotional abuse, it all needs to be reported and the child needs immediate help. Is neglect just as serious as other, more obvious forms of abuse such as sexual, physical and emotional? Child neglect is a continuing problem because of the lack of knowledge people know about it. People need to be aware of the signs and when a child is in danger and when to step in a get them help. Child neglect is detected in different ways. According to Kids Matter Inc. Recognizing physical abuse can be done by noticing a child’s poor hygiene, seeing a child inappropriately dressed for certain weather occasions, unmet medical or dental needs, malnutrition, or staying late at events such as school or extracurricular activities to avoid home. Emotional signs could be anywhere from a child taking extreme measures to please, always being on the lookout for something bad to happen, or simply just having poor learning abilities. Any of these signs from the physical or emotional abuse are very concerning and are a reach out for help. This topic should be suitable for a short research paper because I am finding great answers to the...
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...Using your own words discuss the main reason why children and young people may need to be cared for away from their families. People who abuse children come from all social backgrounds, all walks of life, different races and cultures. They can parents and other people the child knows well like family friends and relatives and it is not so common for a child to be abused by a stranger. Children and young people under the age of 18 need to be cared for away from their families, if they are in severe danger or significant harm is caused to them such as child’s physical, emotional, mental health or development is impaired as a consequence of abuse or neglect and the most important priority is to make them safe. So if a particular adult presents that danger, the adult may be asked to move out of the family home voluntarily or stay away while the enquiry takes place and if they don’t move out, then social services can apply for an emergency protection court order. This would enable the child to live away from home until it was safe for them to return. Also children and young people may need to be cared for away from their families, when an investigation finds that a child needs protection, and the social worker will take whatever steps are most appropriate and least disruptive to the child. Children are only removed from their homes when they’re in immediate danger and nothing less disruptive can protect them. Another reason why children may be cared away from their homes its because...
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...FRAMEWORK FOR STUDYING HUMAN RESILIENCE By Poonam Punni T00037598 Assignment No. 1 Submitted to Dr. Jean Ferri In partial fulfillment of the requirements for Psychology 399 TRU, Open Learning October 7, 2012 Part A: Short-Answer questions 1. A hypothesis is an educated guess as to explain something that you do not know of. The theory would be to test that guess and see if it actually works or is true. The theory comes from when you can prove the certain thing that takes place. 2. The independent variable in the memorization test would be the two different climate settings of hot and cold. Whereas the dependent variable would be what climate group can remember the most words off the list. 3. To examine the academic achievement of a sixth-grade student the correlation method is better because it can predict a relationship between the two variables. The experimental method could not be practiced practically due to the constraints required on conducting the examination as well as issues of ethics and practicality. 4. The issue with proclaiming that poor peer acceptance leads to delinquent behaviour is that a correlational study does not imply causation. A third variable, poor impulse control can influence both poor peer acceptance and delinquent behaviour because it makes it appear that the two variables are related to one another when the relationship...
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...|[pic] |Course Syllabus | | |Axia College/College of Social Sciences | | |PSY/220 Version 3 | | |Positive Psychology | Copyright © 2009. 2007 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description How much control does a person have over his or her thoughts, feelings, and behaviors? What does it mean to be “free?” PSY/220 offers students a contemporary and relevant approach to the study of psychology and the opportunity to learn more about themselves in the process. In this course, students evaluate, understand, and build on their psychological strengths and those of others. Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: • University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. • Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be sure to read the policies at...
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...Michelle Fondi Let’s Move Critique Overall description/who started it and why? Goal/purpose, history On February 9, 2010 Michelle Obama started the program Let’s Move Critique to help children with obesity. She started this program because she notices that childhood obesity rates have tripled and one in three children in America is overweight or obese. This program is dedicated to solving the challenges of childhood obesity within a generation so children today can grow up healthier and pursue their dreams. The many ways of putting children on the path to a healthier future is by giving parents helpful information and fostering environments that support healthy choices. Partners, who manages it/ other collaborators? One of partners who work alongside the Let’s Move program is the Partnership for a Healthier America. This group works alongside the federal government to build a target industry for specific solutions to fight obesity that can be tracked and measured. Manager and collaborators bring together public, private and nonprofit leaders to develop strategies to help end childhood obesity. There are a board of directors or manage the program the Partnership for a Healthier America. Social justice issues-contributing factors The factors that relate to childhood obesity are health related and socially related. Health factors that can come from obesity are heart disease, type two diabetes, asthma, sleep apnea, high cholesterol, cancer and high blood pressure. Socially...
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... Obesity is generally linked to overconsumption of food and more specifically, fast food. Michael Pollan, in his book “the omnivore’s dilemma”, states: “when food is abundant and cheap, people will eat more and get fat”. He blames the obesity epidemic in the United States on the excess eating of food as a result of it being accessible and inexpensive. His statement is accurate; people tend to buy more of an item when it is cheap and the same goes for food and drink. And, because most cheap foods especially processed foods contain high level of fat, sugar, sodium and calories, their overconsumption lead to health issues and obesity. However, while the consumption of cheap food plays a big role in the incidence of obesity, especially in children. However, there are a numerous other influences that should be considered when analyzing the prevalence of obesity in America; two of...
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...Liverman, & Kraak, 2005). In this paper I will talk about First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move campaign, as well as statistics and data related to childhood obesity. Doctors and scientists are concerned about the rise of obesity in children and teens, because obesity may lead to heart disease, type 2 diabetes, asthma, sleep apnea, and social discrimination. Today, more that 9 million children over age 6 are considered obese, which means that they face serious immediate and long-term health risks (Koplan, Liverman, & Kraak, 2005). Obese children may experience immediate health consequences which can lead to weight-related health problems in adulthood (www.letsmove.gov/health-problems-and-childhood-obesity). In addition to suffering from poor physical health, overweight and obese children can often be targets of early social discrimination (www.letsmove.gov). Let’s Move is a health objective that has been put in place by First Lady Michelle Obama. Let’s Move is a comprehensive initiative, launched by Michelle Obama, dedicated to solving the problem of obesity within a generation, so that children born today will grow up healthier and able to pursue their dreams (www.letsmove.gov/about). Let’s move is about putting children on the path to a healthy future during their earliest months and years. At the...
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...quality of life. This article explores the various effects and consequences of spending too much time in front of the TV. An overwhelming number of studies have linked increased number of hours watching TV and incidence of childhood obesity. Watching too much TV fosters physical inactivity and decreased mental stimulation. Also, many of the foods advertised on TV targeted towards children promote consumption of foods with high fat and sugar content. Sedentary lifestyle along with poor diet causes complications that are detrimental to the physical and mental health of a person. Diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol are just a few of the health dangers predisposing to atherosclerosis, coronary artery disease, myocardial infarction (heart attack) and cerebrovascular accidents (stroke). Watching excess TV has also been attributed to poor academic achievement. Children and adolescents who spend most of their free time watching TV rather than reading, writing or studying impede development of their cognitive skills. Reading, writing and studying become arduous and difficult tasks for these children and they are less likely to become motivated to do school work and eventually pursue higher education. Children who are overweight or obese tend to have lower self esteem because of a combination of negative self image and bullying from peers. Persistence of these feelings can eventually cultivate symptoms of depression. Studies also show that watching too much television during...
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