Head Boy

Recently, gender stereotypes have made many headlines in America’s media. From Target doing away with signs directing to “boy” or “girl” toys and removing “traditional” color backdrops to mark something as “masculine” or “feminine,” to professional studies on the effects they have on children growing up, it brings up the question of what do gender stereotypes actually do to young children as they mature and as it turns out, stereotypes effect young children starting as early as just three years…

The first video was about play, stating how a person needs play in their life to have creativity. Today in the United States we have the lowest grades in math reading and science, we are last in health care, we have the worst businesses and the US has the saddest and most depressed people in the world. The video talked about how the people of the US is handicapping themselves due to lack of creativity in their lives, we are more focused on being serious and what others think of us rather than…

to be a girl?” on the screen. The director asks the girl to run like a girl. The teenager starts to jog in place and flap her arms around. The same thing is asked to more teenage girls, a man, and a young boy. All of them are then asked to throw and fight like a girl. The teenage girls, young boy, and man mine throwing a ball not so far, and scratching. Then the director asks young girls, 10 years or younger, to do the same thing. The young girls begin to run as fast as they can across the stage…

He perceives reality and his surroundings differently just like Miss Brill. The young boy has a crush on his friend Mangan’s sister on page 297 he tells us “Every morning I lay on the floor in the front parlor watching her door. The blind was pulled down within an inch of the sash so that I could not be seen. When she came out on the doorsteps…

speaking in memory on their childhood at a moment that they had with their fathers. The poems are showing the speakers attitude towards their father and are differences in fatherly love. Both poems are describing young boys for instance in “My Papa’s Waltz” “Could make a small boy dizzy” (Roethke 2) and in “Those Winter Sundays” “and polished my good shoes well” (Hayden 12) is showing…

The teacher who was interacting with the boy in the drama area then began to focus on the girls and help them with the dresses. As other girls saw that the dresses were being taken out, they began to get closer and wanted to play. I noticed this engagement between two girls, in which one of them…

an intriguing topic, no two children are the same, so no two children will grow or develop the same making every case different. It amazes me at the similarities and differences in each child, similarities in both boys and girls. In my group setting I saw about 65-75 kids mixed of boys and girls. Within the first fifteen minutes of each class I was able to pick out what students were at the top of the classes, what students were at the bottom of classes, and who was mature and who was not mature…

******************************** As society we set standards for how an individual should present themselves in any setting they may be attending. A professor named James M. Henslin (2015), explained that a norm is an expectation that we set of “right” behavior within any setting (49). A norm violation can vary in many situations from affecting a person’s hearing, sight, smell, taste, personal space or just making an individual uncomfortable. Presenting a different type of behavior that is…

means doing things that only “boys” would do. Scout is the opposite of a girl, does not act like a girl, and does whatever she can do to be as if she were a boy. She acts like a boy mainly because Scout is surrounded by boys in the neighborhood, especially since her brother Jem is always with his sister and with his all of his friends. This ends up influencing Scout around all those boys at once causing her to act like a boy. She also ends up playing games that usually boys only play but that is…

was the perfect opportunity to study some preschool age children. I went to the park with my teenage cousins and let them play basketball, while I watched children play. I watched a little boy and a little girl play together. I am not sure if they are siblings, or cousins or even just friends. I think the little boy was a little bit younger than the little…