from the University of Pittsburgh found that “harsh verbal discipline”—cursing‚ insults‚ and shouting—can be as harmful to kids as hitting or spanking. The scientists tracked 967 middle-schoolers for two years. The students attended 10 public schools in eastern Pennsylvania and came from middle-class families that were not considered “high risk.” Sifting through surveys these kids and their families completed on “their mental health‚ child-rearing practices‚ the quality of the parent-child relationship
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Bilal Ahmed explains in his article of “Third Culture Kids” how he feels as a “third culture kid” relating his life experience. He explains his way of thinking in the identity recognition of the TCK’s‚ and on the benefits‚ He also explains that TCK are adaptable and develop non-conformist ideas because they have seen many cultures since they were young. there are much more complicated and different points of view around the subject. Third culture kids can be defined as people who at an early age grew
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How Marketers Target Kids Kids represent an important demographic to marketers because they have their own purchasing power‚ they influence their parents ’ buying decisions and they ’re the adult consumers of the future. Industry spending on advertising to children has exploded in the past decade‚ increasing from a mere $100 million in 1990 to more than $2 billion in 2000. Parents today are willing to buy more for their kids because trends such as smaller family size‚ dual incomes and postponing
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Devina Rahim ENC1102 6/13/2013 Article: Violent Media is Good for Kids Author: Gerard Jones Violent Media is Good for Kids Black Ops is one of the most popular violent games in the world of PlayStation‚ Xbox‚ and other gaming systems. Violence has existed long before there was violent media. In the article “Violent Media is Good for Kids”‚ by Gerard Jones makes a strong argument concerning violence and children. He had great points about some troubled young children are able to transform
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The general argument made by Rushin in his work Give the Kids a Break is that kids need to have adequate recess time to provide them with the break and physical exercise they need. Additionally‚ he argues that the cut back on recess time and the general “wussification” of our over concerned society is a disservice to our children and our future. His claim that recess is important to a child’s development is strong because he suggests the many benefits and supports them with statistics‚ examples‚
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Kids Are Dumb: The Underdeveloped Brain of Teenagers Teenager’s brains aren’t fully developed yet. Scientists used to think that a human’s brain was fully developed at the age of ten. That’s not the case anymore. Scientists have found that a human brain isn’t fully developed until the age of 25. Most people consider others to be adults at the age 18. How can they be adults if their brain isn’t fully developed yet? Neuroscience has shown that a person’s cognitive development continues well past the
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In‚ Freaks‚ Geeks‚ and Cool Kids: American Teenagers‚ Schools‚ and the Culture of Consumption‚ Murray Milner argues that the teenage behaviors which provoke adults do not arise from hormones‚ bad parenting‚ poor education‚ or the media; rather from young people’s lack of power over the direction of their lives. Most teenagers have little say over the school they attend‚ their courses of study‚ and their classmates. Even fewer still do not have voting and drinking privileges and are not financially
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Kids These Days: A Study of the Millennial Generation “When I was your age…” and “Kids these days!” are the rallying war cries of the independent Baby Boomers and Generation X’s cynics. The world has too many problems today‚ and‚ of course‚ it’s all our fault. We are the Millennials. We come after Generation X‚ and while many historians have tried to call us Generation Y‚ we have clearly stepped out of their shadow and made a new name for ourselves. It’s estimated that a Millennial is
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Greg Donner‚ a missionary kid from Swaziland‚ in his web article “Missionary Kids” (n.d.)‚ argues that being a missionary kid is a unique and rewarding experience that brings with it many challenges. He supports this claim by first demonstrating how many friendships end up being only surface relationships because MKs have a hard time relating to American culture (Par. 1-4)‚ then asserts that being a MK can be beneficial by broadening views of cultures‚ languages and “the world in general” (par. 5)
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bad for kids? Back in time in mid 90’s the best source of entertainment for kids was the television that have a great variety of cartoons for the kids to have good entertainment and learn good things. But now they have video games that right now are the top selling industry in the world according to Barbara Ortutay of MSNBC online “the selling of video games on July of this year went to $1.19 billion with a 17 percent more than last year. But the only concern for the society is that kids are getting
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