Essay About Children

The various essays comprising Children in Colonial America look at different characteristics of childhood in the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. Children coming to the American colonies came from many different nations and through these essays, authors analyze children from every range of social class, race, and ability in order to present a broad picture of childhood in these times. While each essay deals with an individual topic pertaining to childhood, they all combine to provide a strong argument that children were extremely valued in society, were not tiny adults, and were active participants in society.

Many people have different passions, some might share the same ones while others might have some that no one has heard of before. Mine would have to be anything that had to do with working with kids. I love teaching them, babysitting them, and even playing with them, it's a new and different experience every time. I find it amazing that you could learn more than you think from someone who is 10+ years younger than you. They can teach you the smallest things that you never realized they could. For example how they treat everyday like a new one, they don't focus on the past events from the previous day they always have a fresh look on things; which can be hard to do as you grow older. Children have this energy to them that can’t be found in adults

The Toronto Star published an article reporting that Toronto currently has the highest rate of children living in households that are considered low income in Canada (Monsebraaten, 2015). The article reports that in Toronto the child poverty rate is higher than the poverty rate of any other age group. This paper will discuss child poverty, how this is a challenge to public health practices and policies, and finally, discuss potential solutions for public policy that address this issue.

MU 2.9 1.1 Explain why working in partnership with others is important for children and young people

     Alex Kotlowitz’s book, There are No Children Here, is a story about two boys, Pharoah and Lafeyette Rivers growing in the late 1980’s in Henry Horner, a housing project in Chicago. The boys try to retain their youth while they see constant gang violence, death of close friends, their brother in jail and their dad struggling with a drug addiction.

The interview I conducted took place in the courtyard of my complex in Smallville, with the interviewee and myself. For the purpose of his paper and to protect the adolescent privacy lets call her Regina. Regina is a fourteen-year-old adolescent female of Africa American descent. She is above average in height and carries a very shy and nonchalance deposition. She is a very attractive young lady and does above average work in her school setting. She appears to be a normal every day child with a lifetime of experiences awaiting her.

Child, it is not necessary a bad thing if you want to be very rich when you are young. As long as there is something you desire, you will have the motivation to push your goals forward. Some people want to travel faraway, some want to look pretty, and some want to become a super star. They are just like you; people who have their dreams and with interesting. But when you grow up in age, you have to maintain this ability to know the thing you want, even though it might be very different from what you want for today.

The book “There Are No Children Here” follows the life of two young boys, Pharoah and Lafayette as they battle everyday life in the dangerous neighborhood of Henry Horner. Many of the life events of Pharoah and Lafayette’s book “There are no Children Here” can be tied to lessons in the book of “Juvenile Delinquency.” Some of the more prominent themes are macro level theories, critical theory of labeling, juvenile justice system, and drugs and gangs. In this book summary I will be discussing how these theories can be applied to the book “There Are No Children Here.”

Alex Kotlowitz was a freelance journalist. In 1985 a friend came to him and asked him to write a text for a photo essay he was doing on (children living in poverty) for a Chicago magazine. That is when he met the Rivers brothers, Lafeyette, age ten, and Pharoah age seven. He spent only a few hours with them interviewing for the photo essay. Lafeyette had an impact on Kotlowitz. When asked what he wanted to be, Lafeyette responded with "If I grow up, I'd like to be a bus driver." Meaning, at ten years old, he wasn't sure if he'd make it to adulthood. In 1988 Kotlowitz suggested to the boys' mother, LaJoe, the idea of writing a book about Pharoah, Lafeyette and the other children in the neighborhood.

Most children that are ages 16 can be tried as an adult in court, depending on the crime that have committed will determine if it is kept in Juvenile court or transferred to adult court. Some children as early as nine years old have been tried as an adult. Some feel that a child as young as eight have no knowledge or full understanding of what they have done. There are advantages and disadvantages of having a minor hearing in juenville or adult court. The first advantages in adult court, is that the jury might be sympatric to child and seeing the innocence in the child and get him/her the much needed help that they might need.

There is a contradiction in the mind of teenagers which has been difficult to transcend. The issue of making right decision on the activities they are to embark on and whose counsel to follow has been of high importance to teenagers. Teenagers in the present age find themselves in a tight situation with decision making in that their school psychologists made them realise that being happy is based on the ability to make friends and the development of skills. Meanwhile, teachers and parents advised that, happiness lies on competing and outperforming others.

As per the National government’s role, the Department of Education (DfE) is responsible for the education and services to the children. They are not only responsible for illustrating the education policy e.g. setting the National Curriculum, but also in discovering the new ways for developing the quality of services which are available to the children under the five outcomes of Every Child Matters. The Every Child Matters set out a national agenda and plan with the aim of providing more services that were accessible for the needs of children, young adults and families which stated that schools and other childcare providers must demonstrate ways that they could work towards each of the outcomes.

One afternoon, my father and his new family, which included his wife and her daughter, we were headed to get something to eat. At least, that is what they had told me. We left their house and headed in the direction of restaurants on the main street. I soon realized we were at a plaza of some sort that I had never seen before. Earlier that week, my stepmother had advised my father that he might want to take me to see a therapist. I could not believe it. What did they think, I was crazy or something? We all walked in as a “family.” Prior to being called back, we sat in the lobby where I heard a voice that asked how we all felt.

There are multiple factors in a child’s development. Parents have a responsibility, as well as a privilege, to contribute to every milestone. Most parents stress over physical and mental stages so much so that play-time is ignored. By making decisions that sacrifice play parents hinder their social development. Parents must take action and encourage their youth to play more, before childhood is lost forever.

It was a bright and early Tuesday morning, and twelve year old Clara was walking to the grocery store like she did at eight in the morning every single day. Her long blonde hair draped down her shoulders on to her bright pink dress. As she was walking to the grocery store she looked up to realize that the town had built a new park with seven bright red swings four of which have been filled with kids, blue monkey bars, and a bright yellow slide with a line of about ten kids. Even for Clara the slide seemed like some fun.