Children Youth and Environments Journal

the care of children. They do not specify how children should behave, but how adults should treat and not treat children. Code 14 discourages beating and otherwise physically abusing children. It instructs the Mother to threaten, but not follow-through with water submersion, suggesting that the threat alone is a sufficient deterrent to prevent undesirable childhood behaviors.13 Code 15 celebrates the wisdom of youth by instructing parents to listen to their children because children speak…

about a person, that test scores cannot do. These different activities offer promising results in the shaping of children. Participation in extracurricular activities can positively affect a child’s school life, impact their parents, and influence self development and growth as an adolescent. Participation in school activities can improve academics and work ethic in a school environment. Playing a role in extracurriculars can benefit one academically…

The Importance of Physical Education If there was a proven way to ensure children are more attentive in class why would it be taken away? Children especially in the time we live in need all the physical activity they can get. With commercials and TV shows that promote junk food and un-healthy habits thrown at them all their life they need something they enjoy but that also benefits them in a positive way. Gym class is not only a privilege but it is also a right that should not be taken away.…

Government Is Helping Nearly one in three children in our country is overweight or obese. These are many of the reasons why our schools changed the food they serve to children at school. Children spend most of their day at school so it would be logical to improve the foods children eat at school. The Healthy, Hunger Free Act on 2010 should be passed because it ensures access to healthy food and promotes overall wellness by providing food for more children and improving the nutrition of the…

poverty rate of children living in the United States is growing rapidly. There are about fifteen million children living in families where the income does not reach the needs to cover the cost of basic needs (“Child Poverty” 1). Poverty can interfere with kids ability to learn and also can lead to some social, emotional, and behavioral problems that will stay with them for the rest of their lives. Unless the amount of children living in poverty begins to decrease, more and more children each…

behavior, the rat would receive punishment. Although both Bandura and Skinner’s theory sounded the same, but Bandura’s theory specifies that an individual can operate in the environment and produce or avoid consequences, yet learning behaviors through direct observation. This was not a resulting behavior of the environment. Unlike other behaviorist, “Skinner rejected the view that his ideas constituted a personality theory. He saw himself as replacing the personality theories with a new way…

& Nurnberger, 2014). Social: 1) Research shows that a person’s drinking partner/ peers had a direct influence on the level of alcohol consumed displaying the influence of peer pressure (Christiansen., Dallas., Field., Jones & Robinson, 2014). 2) Children will learn behavior’s from their family members in particular one’s parents thus if are child is exposed to alcoholic parents that child is more like to model a similar behavior as an adult (Sarafino & Smith, 2014, p. 14). Psychological: 1)…

Bowman, L. E. (1926). COMMUNITY PROGRESS: DEVELOPMENTS IN COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION. Social Forces, 5(1), 91-94. In the article, “Community Progress: Developments in Community Organization”, Laroy Bowman talks about the movement to make change in the schools and the communities as a whole. Within the movement it is desired to aid the movement toward a wider use of school facilities. Also, to learn about communities and schools and practice solving the problems that are common between the two…

English teacher is truly the strongest character within Openly Straight. Rafe’s English teacher understands him, and encourages healthy self-expression through Rafe’s journal entries. The English teacher is a superb role model for adult readers, that provides an example that they should…

The Revista Latino-Americana de Emfermagem journal published a review of twenty years of research concerning parental-adolescent behavior in 2008. One of these studies examined the relationships between parenting styles and depression among 3,993 15-year-olds in California. According to the results…