Children

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Children

• Chapter 1 Introduction

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Health and Well-Being

• Childrens health and well-being in many
  countries is jeopardized
• Poverty
• AIDS epidemic
• Starvation
• Poor-quality health care
• Inadequate nutrition and exercise
• Alcohol and drug abuse

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Families and Parenting

• Family arrangements are changing
• Families with two working parents
• Climbing divorce rates, child-care issues
• Parenting includes providing a safe, supportive,
  and stimulating environment

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• Maltreated children
• may experience language delays and emotional
  difficulties
• Children
• learn from family members, peers, books,
  computers, television, and school

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• CHILD-REARING ENVIRONMENT?THEN AND NOW
• Using the categories that follow, list as many
  items and events for each one as possible.
• -Prior to 1950 -Modern Times
• FOOD
• LEISURE
• SCHOOL
• CLOTHES
• HEALTH
• How do the challenges of todays parents compare
  with those of generations past?
• Are parents more or less involved in the lives of
  children than they used to be?
• How have changes in society influenced parenting
  styles and practices?
• How does the media influence parenting styles and
  practices?
• What can parents do to be more effective in their
  roles?

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Education

• What is wrong with childrens education today and
  how can it be made more effective?

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Mentoring

• Reduced unexcused absences from school
• Raised classroom performance
• Improved relationships with parents

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Sociocultural Contexts

• Contexts settings in which development occurs
• Historical Economic
• Social Cultural factors

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Culture

• Cross-cultural studies comparisons of one
  culture with one or more other cultures

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Ethnicity

• Characteristics based on cultural heritage,
  nationality characteristics, race, religion, and
  language
• Ethnic identity sense of membership in an ethnic
  group

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• Socioeconomic status people similar in
  occupational, educational, and economic
  characteristics

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• Sex is a biological dimension
• Gender is psychological and sociocultural
  dimension of being female or male

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• Social policies affect childrens lives
• Government programs
• Child labor laws
• Poverty rate for families and risk of diseases

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Characteristics of Resilient Children
Source
Characteristic
Fig. 1.1
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Core Issues in Child Development

• Nature and nurture
• Continuity and discontinuity
• Early-later experience issue

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• CONTINUOUS AND DISCONTINUOUS DEVELOPMENT
• List four specific ways you changed in your
  feelings, thoughts, or behaviors between young
  adulthood and early childhood. For each change,
  decide if the change was continuous or
  discontinuous.
• 1.
• 2.
• 3.
• 4.

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Evaluating the Developmental Issues

• Unwise to take extreme position on
• Nature and nurture
• Continuity and discontinuity
• Early and later experiences
• All characterize development through the human
  life span