Psychology of Childhood and Adolescence in an Urban Context

I recently saw a film on babies named National Geographic: Science of Babies. The film explored the ways babies develop in their first year of life, from their first breath to their first step. This relates to the development of the brain when a human is born. It talked about the helpless beings that babies […]

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It is amazing that at the age of two most children can say about a 100 words, but about six months later their capacity to speak not only doubles but triples to a vocabulary of 300 words. My godchild, Hannah, just turned two this month, and speaks English fluently, along with bits and pieces of […]

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When I was in high school, I was a volunteer in an after school program, because I need to have 100 volunteer hours for a class. Therefore, when I went to the program, I was helping students to finish their homework and their needs. However, I didn’t think about myself as a teacher, because I […]

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Since I joined my sorority Kappa Phi Alpha, I participated in many volunteering experiences from Autism Speaks, soup kitchens, etc. But I have to say so far the most rewarding volunteering experience was working with children in an elementary school. During my senior year in high school I had an interesting class which was Community […]

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After watching the short clip on Autism during class, I was very compelled and interested in learning more about what this was about. It was word I was familiar with, but I wasn’t completely aware of it.  I have learned that there are many symptoms that a child develops at the age of just three […]

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I have always wanted to pursue a career in the field of children and teaching. Children are my passion and I love to see children as they learn, grow and develop. All my life I had many encounters with children of all different ages. My first job actually was at a after school where I […]

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This video was shown on TV this morning. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTOPXoDjhng In this video, twin babies look like they are engaging in a serious conversation using conversational acts, laughter, and everything else that normal people do when conversing with each other. One might think that this is just infant-directed speech, or baby talk, but I somewhat disagree. […]

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For the first job I ever had, I was a tutor for elementary school students at a public school in Brooklyn. I was the assistant counselor and it was a class of some twenty-seven or twenty-eight students. They ranged from mostly Kindergartners to two third-graders. I realized that students from a family with less income […]

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One particular volunteering experience I’d like to touch light upon was when my brothers and I (Alpha Phi Delta) went to a park in Brooklyn near the end of November, and planted trees and various plants after the devastating storms that hit NY left it severely damaged. When we arrived at the park, the scene […]

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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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