Little Girls

it is fun to play with the scrap paper. In the dramatic play area, a little boy and a girl pretend that they are clinging. The boy pretends that he is sweeping the floor and the little girl pretends that she is washing the dishes. They demonstrate social emotional development. Two little girls have a conflict, while they were playing with a doll, and a teacher approached them and asks what it is happening, one of the girls says to the teacher that she took the doll first. So, the teacher…

until I hear one little bam or bang noise and I go into a sudden panic. Anyways, nowadays I feel a certain emptiness wandering behind me everywhere I go. I guess it's because I’m missing my hometown back in France. I learned to speak English when I moved to America and started taking classes at a night school (because of the better price…

better comprehend what Sylvia is truly witnessing. It is jarring to be confronted by social inequality while in the mindset of a child who does not yet understand their lot in life. While Sylvia recognizes that she is irritated by the price tag on the little sailboat, and that she has the inexplicable urge to shrink away from the door to the toy store, she does not yet understand why. The theme could easily be “disconnect”. Sylvia may be close with Sugar, but there is definitely a power struggle…

Once upon a time, there was a small, seaside town, along the coast of the vast Pacific Ocean, called Arcadia, and in that small seaside town, there lived a girl named Parker Garcia, who, with the help of some friends and maybe just a little magic, started a revolution that brought love and acceptance to the small town. The small town of Arcadia over looked the pacific ocean from a glorious cliff side that was carved with one of the only freeways in the town. Almost every morning the citizens of…

Many young girls are posing in front of cameras at ages as young as 9 and 10 in chest revealing animal print outfits. With teased hair and explicit makeup, moms are being forced and told that their daughters need to have carved abs sprayed on with a bronzer just before they go out and perform explicit dances that have many gasping in wonders as to why young girls are being forced and allowed to give their selves out like that. What happened to innocent, playful young women? There is a real issue…

In the movie “True Grit,” an unrelenting fourteen year old girl named Mattie Ross, brings it upon herself to avenge her father’s death after the outlaw known as Tom Chaney murders him and flees the territory. The young farm girl quickly seeks out to hire the U.S. Marshal, Rooster Cogburn, who is just as familiar with whisky as he is with guns, to track down Chaney. Shortly after this quarreling duo set out on their man hunt, they are accompanied by a Texas Ranger named LaBoeuf. However, the…

Way tells the tale of a young girl named Staggerlee. Throughout the read we stand by Staggerlee as she struggles to discover and understand her identity.“ She didn’t know what she was” explained Woodson, “Seemed all the girls at school knew who they were somehow. The way they dressed. The way they moved in clusters- laughing and holding their books tight to them. The way they sloe-eyed the boys.” (13 Woodson) However, Staggerlee knew she was different from those girls and always assumed it was…

construct, and communication. We see these stereotypes in “Day Star” by Rita Dove, “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid, and “Barbie Doll” by Marge Piercy. Day Star by Rita Dove is about a mother who felt trapped in her life as a stay at home mother, who just wants to daydream in the sun. “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid is about a mother trying to give her young daughter advise on how not to be a “slut” and how to keep a man. “Barbie Girl” by Marge Peircy was about a smart young lady who did not look how society…

Is this what you really want and expect a toddler to go through? Your toddler to go through? A long weekend of hairdos, makeup, costumes and gowns? Approximately 250,000 children participate in child beauty pageants each year. Surely not all these girls will get 1st place, so is the effort and low self-esteem as a result healthy for a child’s well-being? I certainly don’t think so. I will be discussing about how beauty pageants are damaging to a child’s self-esteem, how you can develop an eating…

What most girls don’t realize is that what they show on TV is acting and almost everything from magazines are completely Photoshop. This is something I didn’t even have known about until the beginning of high school. In the Allure magazine (pg. 58), there is a picture…