Psychology of Childhood and Adolescence in an Urban Context

Throughout the years childhood has changed drastically. It seems to be disappearing at a younger age and then trying to reappear as people get older and realized what they have lost. Children don’t seem to value their youth and want to group up as quickly as possible. Unfortunately when they reach adulthood they realized what […]

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Childhood can be defined as being the early stages of one’s life. These early stages are drastically influenced by the actions of others. Today, childhood is not only influenced by others actions but also by society and its great dependency on media. Due to this major dependency, its beginning to seem as if childhood is […]

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There is no doubt in my mind that in the past 20 years, society has taken a dramatic transformation.  Now more than ever, people can be presented with any information by the click of a mouse.  With the creation of the Internet, and its strong acceptance by our society, virtually every house in the United […]

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Childhood has changed greatly from when I grew up as a kid. Children today are now immersed in so much technology that it is changing the way they learn and interact with other children. Children are now as technologically advanced as most adults with their use of Blackberrys, Iphones, and other smart phones. Not only […]

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The construction of childhood is largely defined by the influences subjected to an individual.  Today, influences such as media (TV and music), clothing, and sexuality have a bigger impact in the development of child than the role of parents. The definition of a child, according to http://www.elizabethi.org/uk/essays/childhood.htm is a non-adult, or an individual with a […]

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Today the status of childhood is dwindling down more and more. What we used to know as childhood, with time has been decreasing, its like the age of childhood is being skipped directly to Adolescence.  Personally I feel as if the media is not necessarily responsible for creating this attitude rather they are responsible for […]

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Childhood today is not what it used to be decades ago. In those days, computers and new technologies were just becoming familiar to people and coming out. Cellular phones were just beginning to be popular.  Children watched only several of hours of television and that mostly cartoons on weekday afternoons and on weekends. Video games […]

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Childhood in the 21st century is dwindling. Children have lost their essence of innocence. The main cause for this I believe is technology. Children are no longer shielded from the world, information isn’t filtered. From the time a child can read it can just look up anything it wants to know online. The internet has […]

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Postmans arguments about childhood disappearing are valid because of the change in the world. Today we live in a world that is flooded with all sorts of technology one can use to entertain and organize one’s life. Children aren’t restricted to this kind of technology, which creates a clear link for them to the adult […]

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I found something on the BBC news website it’s an article with excerpts of a Congolese student who describes the different path her life has taken now that she is able to go to school. The excerpts describe how she and her sister lost their parents at an early age, were taken in by strangers and […]

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