Speech and Language Difficulties in Children
Speech, communication and language development are always at the heart of each and every child’s learning as well as the link to other areas of the child’s development. Without these skills in speech, language and communication, a child will not reach their full potentials. According to a report by the Charity ICAN, one out of ten children, about three children in every classroom have difficulties in communication that may require a help from a specialist (http://www.ican.org.uk). With this number of…...
Adolescent Pregnancy and Parenting
The numbers of teenage pregnancy have decreased in the United States, but this is not the case for everyone. Being a mother in itself represents hormonal imbalances, that contribute to mood swings, depression in addition to the exhaustion of the first weeks of becoming a new mom. The joy of having a child does not prevent any of the hormonal changes or postpartum depression often times experienced by new mothers. The psychological impact of being an adolescent mother can affect…...
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Working with Children
Equality Equality is ensuring individuals or groups of individuals are not treated differently or less favourably based on their specific protected characteristic including area of race, gender, disability, religion or belief, sexual orientation and age. Promoting equality should remove discrimination in all the aforementioned areas. Bullying, harassment or victimization are also considered as equality and diversity issues. Diversity Diversity aims to recognise, respect and value people’s differences to contribute and realise their full potential by promoting an inclusive culture for…...
The Importance of a Family’s Structure
The relationship between parents in a family is essential for their children's behavior. Being rased in a peaceful environment will lead to healthy growth. Parent’s behavior indicates directly to the child’s development. As fewer children are being raised by two parents, the concern for children who are experiencing changes in the structure of their families has risen. Children whose parents live apart are twice as likely to drop out of high school as those in two-parent families and twice as…...
Meaning of Family
How to define the word family? Family in my opinion would have to include the group of people who are related to each other through special DNA past through a pool of genetics from generation to generation to come. Then you have individuals that meet people in life that form a bond. The bond creates a family unit because they share the same views, values, morals, and support each other without casting judgment on the way they chose to look…...
How Do You Define Family?
Everyone defines family differently, however, the significance of family is the same. When you look up family in the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the definition it provides is as follows: fam·i·ly (făm\'ə-lē, făm\'lē) n. - a group of individuals living under one roof and usually under one head Although the above may be the definition from the dictionary perspective; it may not be the only way, or the correct way society defines family. Over time family definition continues to evolve as a…...
Family in Sociological Perspectives
Family is the building block of society. It is the most basic social group in any society. How members in one family relate to each other affects their lives, their work, and their friends. Groups of families that interact with each other, relate to each other and work together build a larger society. By definition, a family is a social group whose members are bound by a legal, biological, and/or emotional tie. The new model of a family is the…...
What Makes A Family Happy or Unhappy
A family can be two or more people who share goals and values, have long-term commitments to one another, and usually live in the same house. Families range from all sorts of races, forms, and sizes. Families differ in various ways but each one has its own definition of a happy home and family. So, what makes a happy family? There are many important factors that make a happy family. Order is one of the important factors that make a…...
Why Do Individuals Conform: Conformity In Children
Conformity is the term used for a change in human behaviour that is in accordance with the behaviour of the group. (Beran, 2015) This change of behaviour may occur as a result of a variety of factors, but the main element of conformity is that it is influenced socially. In other words, it could be considered a consequence of group pressure (Crutchfield, 1955) or it can be defined as an adjustment of a person’s previous behaviour in the submission of…...
Advantages of Living in a Joint Family
A family is a basic unit of living. Every individual is taught the value of a family since childhood. Family is indeed a crucial part of every person's life. Everyone has their perspective on the type of family they prefer to live in. Two types of common families that exist are the nuclear family and the joint family. A nuclear family by definition consists of two parents and their children. On the other hand, a joint family by definition consists…...
Bullying and Victimization Among Children
Bullying is an issue that has been affecting many in the world today. It takes place in many forms some of which are direct and include physical harm on the victim. Verbal bullying involves name-calling and insults or threats being directed at the victim and may also involve emotional bullying where the victim’s emotions are targeted by the bully. Other forms of bullying may be indirect where the harm is not caused by the person directly but it still ends…...
Child Development in the Context of Family and Community
Every child is unique and there is a variety of school programs offered that motivates a child's educational achievement and future careers. Based on my understanding, the Childcare/School is a “microsystem in which children develop” (Berns, 2013, p 205). The child is influenced by the experiences and socialization skills within their household and school environment. For instance, the preschool director of the childcare was interviewed and she mentioned that the childcare motivates families by promoting open houses, conferences, and providing…...
Sociological Perspectives on Family
Family is the building block of society. It is the most basic social group in any society. How members in one family relate to each other affects their lives, their work, and their friends. Groups of families that interact with each other, relate to each other and work together build a larger society. A family in sociology is a group of people who are legally, biologically, and/or emotionally tied. The model of a family we see most often is the…...
Family and Community Health
Introduction A family assessment is an important tool to assess a child’s overall health aspects. It also aims to understand the functions and dynamics of the family which will assist the nurse to determine the possible factors of risks that will be addressed to the child. The family assessment focuses on certain areas like physical, cognitive, moral, and psychosocial. This will enable nurses to understand and comprehend better and will lead to better addressing the potential problems based on the…...
Family and Marriage
The process of family and marriage has evolved throughout history regarding how it has impacted the American government and even society. There are so many important facets in life, it involves digging deep to get an understanding of how it has impacted society. My essay will be about marriage and family. In this essay, the reader will gain an understanding of the process of philosophy on marriage and family. What marriage was then and now for marriage and families? It…...
Work-Family Enrichment
Globalization, technological advances, demographic changes, dual-career couples, and changes in the individuals’ outlook and desires are the factors that have made work-life balance a concern for academia and practitioners (Baral & Bhargava, 2010; Mishra, 2015). In Nepal, the demographic changes are seen in the form of women joining the workforce. 22.5 percent of working-age women are employed. The proportion of those who are employed increased with the level of education irrespective of gender (Nepal Labour Force Survey, 2017). The Nepal…...
Family Ties and Loyalty in “Antigone” by Sophocles
The ancient play Antigone by author Sophocles explores the depths of family ties and loyalty, delving into how family bonds can influence characters to either obey or disobey the state. The state, in other words, is known as the composite whole of a city, but can be commonly associated with the unyielding power or even corruption of its leader. Specifically, the relationship between Antigone and sister Ismene as well as between Creon and son Haimon demonstrate the clash between familial…...
Impact of Divorce on Children
When looking at divorce and its implications of children during the early years of life, there can be several implications as suggested in the theory of Psychosocial behavior, written by Erik Erickson that divorce can have profound implications in a child\'s motivation, tendencies towards delinquency, and overall prospects into adulthood. When first looking at the topic of divorce it is best to look at the significance of having a child grow up in a household with both parents present and…...
Compare And Contrast Childhood and Adulthood
Every single human has to face different phases of his life. Being a tiny fetus in the mother’s womb, our life starts and ends up dying being an old aged man. During this life cycle, we grew from fetus to little kid, then into a teenager to mature men and finally entering into the category of grandparents. It is observed the same for both males and females. Childhood is considered from the age of 2 to 17 for girls, and…...
Zimbabwean children
Times are truly changing and this change has been exceptionally portrayed in Michael Gow's theatrical drama "Away". (Michael Gow, 1986, currency press PTY LTD) Away is a story of many different families and characters, which is one of the key reasons that will allow it to reach a broader audience for your show. Through out the play many diverse concepts are explored and they include the idea that new insight and perspective can cause change. Within the text Gow uses…...
The Professional Thief
Osborn & West (1979) found that 40% of sons of criminal fathers were criminal, compared to only 13% who had non-criminal fathers. This is consistent with most family studies, but the evidence is insufficient to 'prove' the heritability of criminal behaviour. Family studies have numerous methodological problems; for instance, it is impossible to separate genetic and environmental contributions to behaviour (Raine 1993). Most researches tend to investigate twin and adoption studies, when seeking a biological answer for criminality. Twin studies…...
The Children playing
Firstly I recommend that my supervisor takes the children for a 'nature walk'. I have made this recommendation because after observing these children I noticed that they were interested that were the leaves come from. So by taking the whole class for a 'nature walk' the children will get to know were leaves and twigs come from. Secondly I recommend that my supervisor has a day especially to talk about the seasons the teacher can do this by, getting the…...
The Children of Heracles
He creates them so fully that we get their good points, their bad points and their downright ugly points. This makes it very hard to sympathise with any of them. However, there are some characters we can sympathise with in Euripidean literature. As the reader or the audience we can fully sympathise with Alcestis. The play 'Alcestis' is an exploration and detailed analysis of how much of a noble sacrifice the title character made. Alcestis gave her life so that…...
Resilient children
Strategies are set out for enhancing children and family services and sets key priorities for social services, education, health and other partners in order to improve services for children at risk and families in most need, particularly those living in more socially disadvantaged, culturally and ethnically diverse communities. It also builds on measures of success in working together with parents and children to agree plans and partnerships which produce real results. The objectives link closely with those set out in…...
A parental Ode to my Son…
Look again at "Upon My Son Samuel his Going for England, Novem 6, 1657" by Ann Bradstreet, in which the speaker conveys her feelings towards her child, and at one other poem from the anthology in which the speaker conveys his or her parental feelings. With close reference to the way each writer has used language to convey those feelings, compare and contrast what each poem has to say about parental feelings and explain which poem you regard as most…...
Creating the ideal child
Creating the ideal child Though the vast majority of tales from the time played a key role in creating the ideal child previously mentioned. It is hard to gauge the extent to which children listened or believed these moral messages however some evidence exists that the tales where reinforced wherever possible by other improving activities such as attending executions. It can be said that the tales of this era were not completely devoid of merit for example they gave lessons…...
“Her Turn” and “To Please His Wife” stories
Both stories deal with the pressure that lack of money can cause in a marriage. Compare the way in which Thomas Hardy and D. H. Lawrence portray relationships between men and women: In the two stories I am studying; 'Her Turn' by D. H. Lawrence and 'To Please His Wife' by Thomas Hardy, both writers deal with the pressure that lack of money can cause in a marriage, in tow different situations. The first story, 'To Please His Wife' by…...
“Old Father” and “Island man” poems
The quote above is representing how its does not really matter because its another day in London. He is saying that is not the same as his motherland. He thinks is going to be the same old day as every day in England. 'Island Man' never made the effort to be an English man, were as 'Old Father' made a lot of effort to blend in with the white people and to become English man. The poet in 'Island Man'…...
Honour your family?
At some point we've all always said to ourselves that you can't fall in love with a white, black, Hindu, Sikh or even a Muslim, guy because of the consequence it would have on your dad's izaat. Yea it's the whole 'honour' issue. How can we put our father name to disgrace? But isn't love stronger than honour? Well only you as an individual can answer that. But for Heshu and Sadhia, this day dream became a horrific nightmare, when…...
Family relationships through Literature
One may believe that it is family and social class is the root of your personality. An example of this maybe found through the literature of Tony Harrison, a great poet and playwright found in the twentieth century era. A number of his poetic developments mainly reside on the subject of his journey from the working class, onto an education at Leeds University which allowed him to prosper in the field of linguistics. An example of this is found in…...
Explain how visual representations of children
The art work he used for his thesis used the Puritan discourse when showing children as 'smaller adults' showing them as toned and muscular. This could be seen as adults not having love for children that they deserved and needed, and yet with the high infant mortality rates that existed at the time they were painted, every child would have been treasured and cared for in the best possible way. Yet, Aries theories are still used to this day…...
Eva Smiths child
This is carefully timed to fall at a precise moment of tension so throughout the break the audience would be itching to watch more. There are two climatic curtains throughout this play, in-between the three acts. The first climatic curtain in the play is after act one, we know that Gerald has played a part in her life, but we don't really know how, and the audience really want to know how he is involved in her death as we…...
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
60,000 people from Edinburgh alone failed to turn up at the station for the evacuation; as they had felt that war was not imminent when the sign-up was promoted. The Government could not enforce evacuation, as it would be fruitless; costing more than it would be worth. There would be plenty of angry parents not letting police in, and it seems a bit quasi-futuristic to have the Government forcing children into the backs of big vans whilst their screaming parents…...
The Children’s Hour with Billy Liar
My Practical work in April was for Option . It was a pre-war American feminist piece named "the children's hour" written by Lilly Hellman. It was written in 1934 but due to its controversial content was not performed until 1939. The piece is about an unruly young girl who spreads the rumour that the co-headmistresses at her private, all-girls school are engaging in a lesbian relationship; the townsfolk remove their daughters from the school and charge up a scandal. The…...
Childhood and Parenthood in the Novel
A main theme in Mary Shelly's Frankenstein is that of birth, childhood and parenthood, this is explored through Shelly's choice of frame narrative and structure for the novel. She uses a circular story in which Robert Walton, an arctic explorer, rescues Victor Frankenstein off the ice whilst he is in pursuit of the monster. This takes place at the beginning of the novel but at the end of the story, which Frankenstein tells to Walton who writes it in letters…...
The child therefore Ophelia
I could almost imagine Ophelia as a lump of clay, but its not Shakespeare that models her, he gives us a simple character at the beginning symbolized by few words. She is then molded in our minds by the other characters. The same can be said about the way she is brought up, she has no apparent mother figure. Gertrude is the closest she gets, but is an incestuous women who may or may not have had knowledge of or…...
Child alone
I'm here by the coast. It is very beautiful. I have decided to go back and find someone else. Why should I run away? I can't give up the little that I have ever had because of a man. He hurt me enough I don't want to move because of him. I don't have anywhere to go anyway. I will stay here another month and make sure that returning is really what I want to do. Besides I might have…...
The Worlds Wife anthology
The dramatic monologue is a poetic technique which allows poets to create and develop a persona, who addresses the reader through the telling of a story through their perspective, portraying their inner thoughts and feelings in the process. This poetic technique is used by many well respected poets, including Carol Ann Duffy, a feminist poet whose "World's Wife" anthology consists of poems in which this technique can be found. The aim of this essay therefore, is to look at how…...
World’s Wife
Therefore, on a larger scale reminding the reader of two poems that serve as a repertoire to the 'World's Wife', as the somewhat condescending title is a clever over turning of 'the world and his wife' implying that women are the property of men. Yet with this exaltation of men, we see that these two poems are not only reminders of the feminist characteristic of 'The World's Wife' but these two women have been given voices by Duffy. Consequently, archetypes…...
The ways in which Juliet acts and speaks through the play show us how the parent – child relationship worked in the 16th century
Juliet, at the beginning, is very obedient to her parents. She addresses her mother as 'Madam' (P63 Line 6), which is very formal. Today, we address our mothers as 'Mum'. 'Mother' would be the most formal word that we use today. 'Madam' implies a distance between them but also shows how Juliet thinks her mother as important to her. However, Juliet addresses her father as 'father', which would imply that he is closer to his daughter than his wife is.…...