Chris works as a teaching assistant in a local primary school. As a group of Year 5 children were getting changed for PE, Chris noticed bruising in lines across the back of a boy called Marc. He asked Marc how he had hurt himself but he said, “It’s nothing” and quickly put on his top. As Marc left the room he approached Chris and said, “Please don’t say anything to Mum, or Uncle Paul will be cross with me.…
Fear, Social Growth, Sports, and Young Children In Jessica Statsky ’s essay, “Children Need to Play, Not Compete,” Statsky concludes that adults’ emphasis on competition in children’s sports can be physically, psychologically, and developmentally harmful for children. While this claim cannot be denied, many of her other claims (that children fear sports and that children ages six to twelve should never be exposed to competition) are debatable. Considering the importance of and amount of participation in children’s sports in America, it is important to understand that because of adult over-protectiveness or pressure, among other reasons, competitive sports have a troublesome reputation.…
Preserving the hopefulness of children can seem daunting in this environment, but children are resilient. There is an important balance between moving on and remembering the past. Acknowledging the past and current injustices and being aware helps teach what is behavior is harmful and shouldn’t be repeated in all aspects of life. Obviously, there are many aspects coming into play in the oppression and danger going on in the country. With these various complex issues there are two ways of healing. One is immediate tangible actions which can relate very clearly to the film. Skateistan provides an active pastime for the kids to engage in. Being able to come to a fountain or park every day and have fun with others helps bring more joy into the children’s lives and somewhat forget about the oppressive system momentarily. Skateistan also aims for long term positive effects. The program involves children of all ages, genders, and classes. Creating this inclusive environment helps combat the negative stereotypes many children face and teaches that they are…
Racial prejudice, anti-semitism, or hatred of anyone with different beliefs has no place in the human mind or heart. Anti-Semitism is hostility to or prejudice against jews. Two films were released in the 1990’s that deal with different issues involved anti-semitism. One titles “Swing Kids” was set in Nazi Germany and tells the story of a group of teenage resisters who revel by doing swing dance, but are forced to be involved with the Nazi anyways. The other film is titled “School Ties”. This film is set in the United States, but also deals with issues of anti-semitism.…
The mind will always play tricks and make you feel safe and you end up hurt even more because the person let their guard done and a bear minimum the kid get a concussion. Just because they place no cleating rule, no hitting the catcher, or not catching the mound and hurting the pitcher does not mean it will stop the people(Alexander). The parent make kids were protective gear where they think the kid will be safe but the kid id in a worst incident because reaction time is slower(Pittman). Look at pitcher if you were a helmet thing in the kids at it could let alone make the kid throw it in the wrong spot and the ball could be hit harder at the kid and face worse injuries than the parent ever though(Alexander). Or in a worse case the kid would get more hurt if the object break it could almost kill the kid because the pieces world end up going in the kids…
Do you think that bike riders, skateboarders, and in-line skaters should wear a helmet? Well we think that they should wear helmet even if they are advanced in either sport. Helmets protect you from major injuries and some can cause death or you might have to go in intensive care at the hospital. Most helmets are bright colored or have reflectors on the back so you can see the riders. Police and other people believe that everyone should wear a helmet while riding a bike, skateboard, or inline skating.…
The article Children Need to Play, Not fight by Jessica Statsky basically battled non-need of fighting theory in youth. She took the side totally against this idea. She advised over the earlier decades' spread of battling speculation in child ages. Their gatekeepers were inclined to give watchful thought on the outcome of the diversion or match. The inventor raised some her unmistakable purposes behind right how this speculation wasn't correct. In her article, she said "each sorted out amusement activities" were horrendous to back adolescents. She immovably propose this structure to be re-new as charming action development regardless every one's ability or physical character, for instance, tallness, weight, running pace and passage.…
Have you ever been to a little league game and ever see how much fun the little kids are having just being out on the field playing, then there is a parent yelling in the back ground to stop “goofing around” or do something embarrassing or got in another fight with a parent. This writer decided to speak out against parent behavior at little league sporting events, and I completely agree with the writer’s ideas and concepts on how parents should be acting at their children’s little league games. The message the author is trying to convey is these games are just games, a little league game at that. No parent should be pulling guns, fighting, or beating people to death. “As we have said before, adults — whether coaches, fans, parents or officials — must set examples for youngsters on and off the athletic fields,” a quote from the author, says basically the parents set examples. Plus, it is only a game, I can see maybe when kid’s get older they would get upset, but not during little league football, or for any little league sport at that. The article is very good on giving details on what exactly happened at various scenarios, and the writer gave it a good message to give to the world to think about. They can damage or possibly ruin different mindsets and dreams for the little kid’s in the sport. My thoughts are very emotional with this topic; parents that get in fights at little league games can ruin not only the game, but also the kid’s perspective on the game or on life.…
One of the boys wanted the other boy to paly cards with him. Thus, he picked up cards and attacked that boy. And then the other boy used cards to protect himself from the attack. In fact, the situation was dangerous because the cards were not toys. It was large and had sharp edges. Maybe cards would scratch them. It was a challenging situation for me because I was not sure whether I should stop them rigorously. At this time, a club employee came up and stopped them. He seriously told them that played these cards would make them hurt. Therefore, the children were aware of such acts threaten their safety, and then they started to play with toys obediently. This hazardous situation also lifted. This situation had a positive result because the two children understood that this behavior was unsafe by the rebuke of staff. And they also found that this behavior was wrong, and probably would hurt them, so they will not do…
A lie told. A person accused. A life taken. Lies can be extremely harmful and hurtful. They can change a person’s life, especially if the lie is believed by the majority of people around the area. Many people who read The Children’s hour believe that homosexuality is a huge theme, and the reason behind her writing the play. However, I believe the lies told by the young girls, and I say girls because it is more than just the mastermind Mary Tilford, that set the scene for this play, not homosexuality.…
"She must do something, stop them, call for help. She wanted to put her hand on her husband's sleeve, to pull him down, but for some reason she didn't" (P2L36)…
Crack! Smack! Pop! Are all of the sounds that are heard at any baseball field in America. Seven out of ten American children play a sport when they are young children. Three out of those ten kids play baseball. This number has slowly been decreasing over the years. Grady, my nine-year-old little brother, began playing baseball at the age of five. Personally, I believe it is awesome to see him striving to play baseball like me. In the four years he has been playing, he has gotten tremendously better than when he first stepped onto the baseball field, but I will never forget the first day he ever stepped on a baseball field. On the day of Grady's first baseball game, he recorded his first hit along with catching his first pop fly.…
forbid that children get their energy out and exercise in a fun manner. It gets worse. “a National Union of Students conference banned clapping as it might trigger trauma (‘please use jazz hands’, delegates were told)” (Tam). It isn’t only physical protection either. Parents want to shelter their kids from any kind of verbal conflict. I would like to provide an analogy for this. Turtles are born with soft shells and they develop through life experiences, however, if a mama turtle protects that baby turtle from everything the shell will stay soft. I believe this is what happened to Generation Snowflake and has resulted in their hypersensitivity. The second characteristic of Generation Snowflake is a sense of entitlement. This comes from the self-esteem culture that has developed over the year. Everyone is a special and unique snowflake, everyone gets a participation award, and there are never any “bad questions”. I hate to be a cold sense of reality, but there are bad questions, people shouldn’t get a award for just trying, and not everyone is special and unique. Howard Schwartz, professor emeritus of Oakland University, said that “political correctness and microaggressions, all stem from this idea that people operating under the notion of…
What are the effects on children whose parents push them in sports? “As the stakes grow, the children are the ones losing,” according to Sacks. Seventy percent of children drop out of sports by age 13, and a big reason is that their parents are putting too much pressure on them, “he explained." It’s interesting because a lot of people don’t know that parents pushing their children in sports isn't very good for children. Parents pushing their children can have bad effects on their children.…
Violence is on the rise in playgrounds and there are always young children who stand defenseless in the face of their peers, who may happen to be bigger than them and as such take the advantage to pick on the little ones.…