Psychology of Childhood and Adolescence in an Urban Context

            To some degree the future of childhood, in the writings of Postman, seem to be continuing a similar pattern to which he focuses his evidence, regarding the disappearance of childhood, from. Currently, the status of childhood, in my opinion, has changed a lot since my own personal experience with childhood. Not only are children […]

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Childhood has changed dramatically since I was a child; and that was only about 13 years ago.  Children today are quicker to grow up.  We see examples of this in the way they dress, talk, play, their appearance.  The concept of childhood changes as technology changes.  A lot can be blamed for this transformation of […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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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Childhood has taken a dramatic turn in today’s society. Today’s children seem to transform into adults so fast that they seem to barely be walking before they are acting out what they are seeing and hearing in this world. The parents of today seem to have lost control of their children and don’t seem to […]

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I feel that the prevailing attitude toward childhood today, especially on the part of teachers and parents, is one of ambivalence.  There is a strange dichotomy whereby we allow children access to some very mature concepts and objects (in terms of dress, music, language, sexuality, etc) and at the same time lower our expectations of […]

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The status of childhood is very vivid today. Modern day children are cared for, protected, and definitely experienced what we consider ‘childhood.’ However, I think children are growing up faster than they should be. They have knowledge of things that should have learned later on in life. Here is one funny example of a three […]

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I believe childhood has been in existence since the development of the idea of the adult. The two go hand in hand with each other. It is like there can’t be day without night and there can’t be right without wrong. Child hood is a very broad term. There can be the fun part, the […]

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