Posted in Construction of Childhood and Adolescence on Feb 12th, 2011 Comments Off on Status of Childhood today
In my opinion, childhood is an endangered concept in our society. The notion it “takes a whole village to raise a child” is rapidly declining the way I see it, though child molestation and pediphilia have been around for decades, the fact is we can no longer trust everyone in our “village” to raise our […]
Posted in Construction of Childhood and Adolescence on Feb 12th, 2011 Comments Off on Childhood
In today’s society, child thinks about sexuality in much different way. For example, they will keep asking their parent or teacher about their body system and where is the body come from and we need to explain the answer in a right way to our children, and make sure they understand it. That is why […]
Posted in Construction of Childhood and Adolescence on Feb 12th, 2011 Comments Off on Construction of Childhood and Adolescence
Sexuality- In terms of childhood and sexuality, in today’s society i feel that there’s a a significant urge to grow up even quicker. As children we are all curious about sex. For example our bodily functions and where babies come from etc. However i feel that in the past these concepts were learned over time as opposed […]
Posted in Construction of Childhood and Adolescence on Feb 12th, 2011 Comments Off on Does “childhood” still exist today?
The existence of childhood has developed, over time in various ways. However, at the present time, are children being exposed to too much too soon? Factors like the media, music, and games and are somewhat corrupting the development of a child. According to the WordNet, the definition of childhood is simply “the state of a child […]
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