Only child

“You better not be on that phone unless all of your homework is done.” The line I hear from my parents on a weekly basis. Although I’ve really only been taking a brief intermission from my calculus homework and APUSH outlining, to them a minute spent not being productive is a minute wasted. All parents have different perspectives on how much to intervene in the academic and personal lives of their children, but my parents have a unique position— they don’t want the personal lives of me and my…

Children are much like their parents, in the fact that they mimic both the personalities and actions of their parents. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, the child of our protagonist serves as a window into her conscience. As do the many other town children of the early Boston Colony. The children in this novel are very different yet still hold many of the same attributes of their parents; they serve as the mouthpieces of the ‘hardened, true beliefs’ of many characters. It is the…

the child absorbs it in their brain. Children will eventually begin to get older and start making decisions on their own. Parents don’t always agree with them, but a good parent stands by their side and supports them. It is also essential for parents to make their children their first priority, children will never feel neglected in this way. Despite people’s different values and opinions, three of the key qualities of a good parent are setting a good example, unconditionally loving your child…

The environment a child grows up with is a reflection to how they will grow and develop. If that environment becomes violent or if the parents neglect to take care of that child it will have a serious impact on them. The first few years of a child’s life is when they learn many of their basic skills that will help them grow and develop new and more complex skills. When the learning experience is interrupted by abuse or maltreatment it can have a long-lasting affect for the child with “80%of…

It is only during the last few years that people have become generally aware that the impact of overprotection parenting issues. This scenario ‘Their Fragile Future’ captured my attention, those overprotecting parents constant drive to make everything perfect for their children, they protect their children from harm, but the way they go a bit too far. They highly structured rules, over-emphasis of academic success, overindulging and over-scheduling their children to meet their expectations. Thus…

age. However, many of the kids only play a single sport, and the types of adults that either spectate or coach youth sports are mainly split into two opposing sides. One half helps the kids to succeed in the sport they are playing and let the kid choose if they want to play that sport, and the other half force the child to play a sport that they may not like and gravitate towards the child’s every mistake like a moth to a flame. This can cause many problems for the child and can often be…

cheating, stress and anxiety are the leading causes. The most popular excuse for a cheating child is laziness. Because of technology and the growing problem of childhood obesity, it is easy to say that Americas youth is less active, and by extension, lazier than ever. As it might be true that children collectively do not exercise or go outside as often, childhood obesity does not support that…

to shine they must succeed and for them to succeed they must submit to their parents who know best. This is the essential argument that Chua makes. “Chinese parents understand [that] nothing is fun until you’re good at it” (Chua 306), the only way for a child to succeed is hard work, and since children never want to work on their own, parents must override…

family would have only experienced an average of only 13 million words. These finding were about to change the world. Risley and Hart’s results from this study were so astounding that they did a follow up study at age nine to look at the long-term implications of the word gap. What they found was that the word gap was indicative of child outcomes, meaning that there were cast differences in the outcomes of the low word and high word children. Thus the amount of talking that a child experiences,…

so that they can continue assisting the client when OT service is not provided. Feeding Independent self-feeding is one of the important landmarks in the sensory development in childhood occupations in the end of first year. To gain this ability, a child needs to acquire somatosensory processing of information from the jaw, lip, and inside of the mouth that lead to an oral movement of chewing and swallowing of food. Self-feeding includes more than mouth movements, but also includes other sensory…