...I was on a parenting bulletin board recently and read a post by a mother who was worried that her 4 1/2 year old did not know enough. “What should a 4 year old know?” she asked. Most of the answers left me not only saddened but pretty soundly annoyed. One mom posted a laundry list of all of the things her son knew. Counting to 100, planets, how to write his first and last name, and on and on. Others chimed in with how much more their children already knew, some who were only three. A few posted URL’s to lists of what each age should know. The fewest yet said that each child develops at his own pace and not to worry. It bothered me greatly to see these mothers responding to a worried mom by adding to her concern, with lists of all the things their children could do that hers couldn’t. We are such a competitive culture that even our preschoolers have become trophies and bragging rights. Childhood shouldn’t be a race. So here, I offer my list of what a 4 year old should know. She should know that she is loved wholly and unconditionally, all of the time. He should know that he is safe and he should know how to keep himself safe in public, with others, and in varied situations. He should know that he can trust his instincts about people and that he never has to do something that doesn’t feel right, no matter who is asking. He should know his personal rights and that his family will back them up. She should know how to laugh, act silly, be goofy and use her imagination...
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...INTRODUCTION… Rainbow is franchise that operates 5 branches of pre-school and child care facilities in the Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This 5 branches offer the highest quality or nurses and toddler facilities as well as 3 and 4 year old kindergarten for 90- 100 children. These centers comprise class rooms catering for the1-2 year’s olds and 2-3 years old, as well as classes for the 3 and 3 year old kindergarten. Besides that, these centers also provide casual day care services for parents who need to be away from their children for appointments, running errands, due to work or even just to enjoy the quiet time sans children. Parents have been advised to book for slots much earlier to reserve child care. Casual booking has to be paid up front for prior to leaving the child in the Centre. This center’s ensure that all teachers in the kindergarten classes are highly qualified and the child care givers are well trained. At the moment the Centre has 120 employees. This centers use the highest possible technology that they can provide out, most parents are updated on their children’s progress by their respective teachers. Teachers are to keep track on the behaviors of the children and to track them down so that parents can view their all-round performances in the centers. This business takes pride on the quality of the services it is providing the customers. A business like Rainbow is a very huge business that requires a certain amount extensive use of Information System that would...
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...these assumptions and don’t even know the true history of the child and what the child has been through or currently going through; I have been one of these people myself. It’s important to know that something seriously could be wrong with our children rather in development issues or home based issues. In this paper I will be discussing different risk factors and how they can influence a child’s behavior; I will also enlighten you on how you as well as other teachers, and parents can help change these behaviors. Risk Factors Educators and parents must be able to identify risk factors in order to be able to successfully understand and help a child in need. There are many factors that should be known about such as: Poverty, Violence, and problem with brain function (Development). * Poverty- Child poverty is a multidimensional phenomenon and can be measured in many ways. It is imperative that governments make a commitment to child poverty reduction, recognizing and responding to child poverty is the first priority, alongside building expertise and improved approaches to child poverty measurement. Understanding child poverty to the fullest possible extent is vital. While an adult may fall into poverty temporarily, falling into poverty in childhood can last a lifetime – rarely does a child get a second chance at an education or a healthy start in life. As such, child poverty threatens not only the individual child, but is likely...
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...Information Technology Act There are several advances in information technology that resulted in new ethical issues that brought on the creation of certain acts. The two acts which will be discussed in this paper are the Children’s Internet Protection Act of 2000 (CIPA), and Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1988 (COPPA). Children’s Internet Protection Act is a federal law that was passed by congress that went into effect April 20, 2001 (ala.org. para1). The purpose behind the Children’s Internet Protection Act is to help block and filter certain material from being accessed through the internet. (ala.org para1). As the technology advances the local school systems have begun using computers/internet to teach children how to research subjects and to learn the technology of this day and time, which is also covered under this particular act that each school that has computers as a teaching tool is required to have filter system to keep minors from seeing cites that are not appreciate. The main purpose with the Children’s Internet Protection is to prevent children from today’s exposure for example pornographic images that are unsuitable for children. Modern Technology has become an important tool in our society from online banking to entering an address and receives step by step directions; if it appeals to adults then children interest will be a larger version of appeal. The internet is growing and children are being brought up in different society, learning how...
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...mentally-impaired child. This small school is very near a state university, although it is not directly associated with it. Most of the families who enroll their children in the school are graduate students or faculty at the nearby campus, and the director is a graduate student in the master's program in education. There are eight 4-and 5-year old children in the group, and each of them has some special difficulty in the emotional or mental realm. The physical environment is a house that has been partially converted into a school. The director uses her kitchen and living room for various activities, and two other rooms are set aside for the children, as well as the fenced-in outdoor play yard. The atmosphere is homey and friendly, and the director is as relaxed as if she were inviting the families, the children, and me over for a friendly chat over coffee. This program is a half-day arrangement, and day care is not provided. The educational and mental health curriculum is intended for enrichment and specific assistance to children and families that have identified some difficulty in their child's behavior or development. Most of the children come through referral from the local mental health center. The instructor carefully screens each family and makes certain requirements for parental involvement in the program. Each parent assists for a few hours each month, partly to keep the tuition costs reasonable, and more importantly to allow the parent to observe the child within the...
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...of them is different. It is the teacher’s job to explain how the world around them and the people in it are different. Making each child feel like they belong can be difficult but is always possible and a good teacher can accomplish that task. | Accommodating the Differences With the rowing cultural diversity of the world, the classroom has become a vital launching station for understanding cultural differences. Education about cultural differences and different groups of students starts with the teacher. One group of diverse students may be that of ethnic background. Children develop racial attitudes up until about the age of 9. After the age of 9, racial attitudes are likely to stay the same. Before that, the teacher has a good chance to help children develop positive feelings about who he or she is and about whom others are around them. “Children develop their identity and attitudes through experiences with their bodies, social environments, and their cognitive developmental stages.” (Derman-Sparks, 1989) As these three factors inter play, children go through stages of racial and cultural understanding. Also, as a child’s thinking is not yet fully developed, it is important to catch feeling of racial prejudice before they start, so that a child can form a healthy attitude about the world around them. To help a child of different culture feel comfortable in the classroom, the teacher needs to create a multicultural classroom. This can be done with...
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...important to note that the term “failure to thrive” is used to describe elderly individuals with declining health, and individuals who are losing the ability to perform the functions need to survive. Children are deemed as individuals who are failing to thrive when their rate of growth does not meet the expected growth rate for a child their age. Reasons for children’s failure to thrive can be medical, such as Anorexia or their refusal to eat from chronic medical problems, such as Renal Disease, Cancer, Congenital Heart Disease, Metabolic Disorders, liver disease, HIV infection, or gastrointestinal reflux. It can range from mild to moderate to severe in individuals with diagnoses such as cerebral palsy, autism, and fetal alcohol syndrome. Other reasons that can lead to a child’s failure to thrive can be emotional or behavioral in origin. When a child is not receiving adequate nutrition or the child has an inability to receive adequate nutrition the child is unable gain weight and grow in a healthy manner. Failure to thrive has an enormous impact on the child's physical and mental growth. If the underlying conditions are not taken care of, a child who is experiencing failure to thrive will become irritable and apathetic and my not reach developmental markers at the usual ages for most...
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...choice of food for children. It describes that living healthy starts with children and the foods that they eat and their physical activities are two of the most important issues. Child obesity is a growing issue and this article has valuable information. This article states that it is peer reviewed on the detailed record. Baker, T., & Masud, H. (2010). Liability risks for after-hours use of public school property to reduce obesity: a 50-state survey. Journal Of School Health, 80(10), 508-513. doi:10.1111/j.1746-1561.2010.00535.x Retrieved July 29, 2012 from EBSCOhost. This is an interesting article that talks about children and obesity. It goes over why it is important that children are involved in physical activities and how schools can help achieve this. It talks about how school boards and administrators feel as though it is a liability risk for students to be involved in more physical activities. This article states that it is peer reviewed on the detailed record. Murphy, M., & Polivka, B. (2007). Parental perceptions of the schools' role in addressing childhood obesity. Journal Of School Nursing (Allen Press Publishing Services Inc.), 23(1), 40-46. doi:10.1177/10598405070230010701 Retrieved July 29, 2012 from EBSCOhost. This is a good article that gives a perspective about child obesity and schools through parent’s eyes. Many parents were surveyed to get an understanding of what they felt ws the...
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...and its name is: h-waya´as. An H-waya´as is a Baalba´al, it is dirty, revolting with long hair around for all its body. It was inside the cave and caring for “hapai kan”. Its work is to search children to take them at the cave so hapai kan swallowed them. Hapai kan can bring a child towards itself with its hot mouth, even though child being so far like a distance of 4 walache´es. There are impenetrable labyrinths inside it cave. There anybody could get lost. People don’t allow their children go there. Once a year, it goes out by 4 directions: north, south, east, and west. After 5 days it will come back. When it go out, Baalba'al H-Waya'as turn it face upward; and when it come back at its cave it is face downward. While it flies on the world, it spreads a scabies or malignant fluff similar to the corn. This way everything spreads on the 4 cardinal points. As consequence would have putrefied and harmful waters for humans and sown fields. Due to putrefied waters all the people and animals fell sick of stomachache. Sometimes this cause that trees and humans die. In the month of august, it flies for all the sky. It will make the day when “Yum k´u” who will judge men when the world end, during 7 days any child will be born. When this day come, “hapai kan” will be dying...
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...Journal 4 : The Unforgettable Experience of My Life. I wondered what others had to say regarding their past encountring mishaps and accidents especially during their childhood life. I remembered when I was at the tender age of five. I was quite playful and active child of the age of mine. As simple minded as a child, I never heed to advices and ban the elders used to cry at. Of course being a child of no experience made me curious and persistent to do things as the grown-ups did. Never did I thought of dangers posed in every action and move I take. One day, I woke up to my usual Saturday morning and had the breakfast my mom prepared. She asked me to follow her to her workplace, a primary school which I agreed. There, my mom let me play with the staff’s children so we wouldn’t disturb them at work. But my mom reminded not to go too near the fish pond in the science garden. Lately, some reports were made that student got stung by bees near the fish pond. The beehives was believed to be at the rock pile of bricks. It was normal for my fellow friends and I to play near the fish pond. That place was shady and cool. We played hide-and-seek game. I hid behind the rock pile of bricks and accidentally toppled the unstable structure. The beehives was destroyed at once and the bees were furious. They swarmed over me and stung me. I was lucky as I wore long-sleeved shirt but my bare foot became the target. My friends and I run to safety, but the stings was so much that I cried in pain...
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...their parents raised them. The children in the 70’s were raised in a one income family which meant it was always a parent home to monitor the house and the children. There was a low tolerance for disrespect in a household at that time. Children back then were taught to show respect to their elders no matter what the situation was. Children back then were taught by tradition, showed moral, and were way more motivated than the children now. Today children are more defiant. But, due to technology and social media has allowed children to be much more defiant and rebellious towards parents. But in time today children don’t have both parents at home so in which case it falls all on one parent to make money and still provide for their child while still trying to raise them the way they have been raised but in many cases they turn into more of a friend then a parent. From the viewpoint and perspective that I get to see every day there are a lot of adults who act like they are still teenagers which leaves a lack of guidance for the children. But you can’t only blame the parents you have to blame the children also because children have become a lot more defiant over the...
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...just think about all the things you did during your childhood, now think about what this generation will not know because they will not go outside if they do not have too. One is that you are taking away from the show/movies that can be shown. What will happen to those television stations that only show violent movies? Will the station be cancelled because a child that was being unsupervised or even supervised ended up watching it? Another reason being what is this law really trying to protect children against? Just because they do not see it on television does not mean bad things still won’t happen. By passing this law you are encouraging the adult in change to let them watch more television because they know what’s being showed during those hours. How will that help the future of America deal with interpersonal communication skills if they are always in front of a television instead of a book? How will they learn skills they need to survive? I do not know about you but if this law is pasted Im not only scared of what the children won’t learn but what they will learn to. Let’s be serious who would really let there child go into the woods with a monkey? A concerned...
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...Gadgets-Do They Really Make Our Life Comfortable? By avanti c., mumbai, india Email me when Avanti c. contributes work Every week, dozens of ultra-expensive, swanky gadgets are introduced in the market. All of these mechanical devices are supposed to make life really comfortable and easy. But is it really worth it to spend such a hefty amount of one's hard-earned money on these gadgets? Are these gadgets really worth all this hype and sensationalism? The markets nowadays are high on the gadget-o-meter.People, especially children and teenagers are competing against each other as to who is more tech-savvy. But we have failed to see the other side of gadgets. Today, every child is glued to the plasma TV set his parents gifted him on his 7th birthday instead of being out there in the park, playing football with his friends. As a result, children have turned themselves into useless couch potatoes. Thanks to e-mailing, people have forgotten how to write letters. Due to this one's creative potential is not being fulfilled. We are very proud to switch on our state-of-art air conditioners whenever we feel even a little warm. But we are blind to the fact that the same air conditioner is causing huge holes in the O-zone layer. So, gadgets do not exactly replicate our life to heaven.On the contrary, they turn us into overdependent fools. So, think again, before you take out your wallet to pay for that latest gadget. And yes, start moving your limbs a...
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...Elsesser 5/16/2014 Amy Tardy 2 Children are our future, and as our future we want our world to be free of sicknesses and diseases, well as much as we like the idea it is not going to happen. We have children who are suffering from life- threatening illnesses who do not have a chance to be a kid or to grow up with the memories of childhood. We try all we can as parents and family to keep our children safe we just can not perdict a child getting a life threating illness, we do all we can to make our child happy while going through a scary ordeal. If we can make one dream come true for a sick child for one day of forgetting they are staring down a life threatening illness and make that child laugh wouldn't giving that child a wish come true be amazing? The social program I am creating is a program to help a child who is terminally ill or has a life threatening illness called “Dreams Come True.” A dream come True program would for one day grant sa wish one child makes come true. To make this happen I would need to set up the program, find donors and volunteers, financing to help the wishes come true. Advances in medicine and modern technonogy have increased the survival rate in children with chronic illness, including illnessess that were considered fatal (Cohen,1995).Witnessing the child's pain and fear, combined with the constant fear of death makes it difficult for the family to function normally ...
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...and wonder how they would have survived the suffering and distress children in the early 19th century endured in fact, I wondered if I would have. Child labour was a common practice in the early part of the 19th century, children worked long hours in factories and because they were small they often had the most dangerous jobs, like climbing into jammed machines or scrambling up narrow factory chimneys. Children as young as 6 could be working 10 – 14 hour days. The industrial revolution saw many hundreds of people leave the country side in search of paid work in the towns and cities. This influx of people, more people than jobs available, created ‘slum type’ areas full of disease crime and poverty. In desperation parents sent their children to work or quite simply abandoned the child as she was too expensive to keep. Robert Owen, a wealthy mill owner strived to improve the lives of poor children. Owen refused to employ children in his New Lanark mill and offered them an education instead, so determined in his ideals, he took his views to parliament and managed to convince MPs that children employed in factories needed protection and that a new law was necessary. In 1816 the Factory Act was passed and children under nine were no longer allowed to work in cotton mills. Today there are very stringent laws governing Child employment. Some examples are listed below. Children may not work: * in any industrial setting such as a factory or industrial site * during...
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