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One of the women, whom will remain anonymous, shared a tremendously touching story on this website. “When [she] had [her] son 14 years ago [she] had a cardiac episode. It left [her] heart weak. When [her] son was just under 2 years old [her] birth control failed. [She] was pregnant. Being pregnant started sending [her] blood pressure really…

2. Social Interactions/Development With children between the ages of zero years and two years, there are numerous amounts of developmental changes that happened in between that time span. While observing the toddlers in lab one, ages zero years to two years old, I witnessed multiple kinds of developmental changes. These children also encountered many people. In the lab, I seen multiple toddlers showing different signs of social development. Some of the toddlers were talking the whole time I was…

On an average, according to UNICEF, 353,000 babies are born daily around the world, that makes it about 127,750,000 babies every year. Many of these children are given well lovely homes with parents who love them, but there are others who are abandoned and often sent to orphanages. Some in poorer countries are often left exposed to nature without the love of a parent, without feeling nurture, this being the same scenario in the novel Frankenstein. The story starts out with a curious young Victor…

Today, sex is a much talked about subject, and roughly half of high school students participate in the act. Today the value of ‘saving one’s self for marriage’ is dated and carried out by few, but in ‘The Chrysanthemums’ by John Steinbeck, this ideal is presented to an extreme. Steinbeck begins the story by painting a descriptive picture of the Salinas Valley and describes it as “a time of quiet and waiting”. The story then introduces us to two of the main characters, Elisa and her husband,…

In Meg Elisons, Book of the Unnamed Midwife, a deadly fever takes most of the women and children of the world's population, Karen was one of the few females to survive. In the male dominated world, change was required in order to have protection and survive. Karen had to change her life from a sophisticated nurse to a barbaric way of living, disguise herself, and move frequently to protect herself and survive. Karen was quickly introduced to the new barbaric lifestyle she would have after she…

Birds and The Bees When is it appropriate to talk to your children about sex? Many parents will try to give the infamous “birds and the bees” talk with their kids when they hit puberty around age 10 or 12. However, “sexual learning begins in infancy and continues throughout childhood and adolescence” (King: 271). Children draw their conclusions about sex from the social environment around them, their peers, family, friends, and the media like TV shows. They will undeniably bring it up with…

The first menstruation, got “on the same day of the month as the other girls, […] all synchronized in their lunar rhythms” (Eugenides), is Cecilia’s body signal that she is biologically mature and able to bear pregnancy. She approaches womanhood and gets closer to the characteristics of a harlot, consequently further from a young and immaculate virgin. The blood is also inherently connected with defloration, in many cultures an indicator of becoming a sexually active woman, thus becoming a…

After pronouncing judgment in Ghasi Ram on February 7, 1968, Hidayatullah, J., decided Om Prabha Jain v. Abnash Chand on the same day dealing with the same issue, i.e., whether making of discretionary grant by a Minister on the eve of election amounts to bribery or not. Applying the test laid down in Ghasi Ram, i.e., "that a Minister in the discharge of his duties may be required to do some acts of administration including the granting of money for the uplift of a certain communities and this…

population in South Africa. This made conservationists worried, so they relocated and established reserves for elephants but by doing so they increased the elephant population too much. Now scientists have come to the conclusion, that in order to control this rapid increase in elephants they will have to use contraception…

PRE-SCHOOL (3-6 Years) Ages 3-6 years are considered the pre-school years or the early childhood. The child has now reached their preschool age! Between the age of three to six years old, the little one will become more confident and will move out into the wider world. They are probably now happy playing with other children, with role games and make-believe scenarios popular because of their active imaginations. By this stage, on my observation they should have grown out of any ‘terrible…