Many scientists and psychologists find that video games can actually have many benefits: The main one is making kids smart. Video games may actually teach kids high-level thinking skills that they will need in the future (“University of Wisconsin psychologist”). "Video games change your brain‚" according to University of Wisconsin psychologist C. Shawn Green. That’s mean playing video games change the brain’s physical structure the same way as do learning to read‚ playing the piano‚ or navigating
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and communities outside of their own. They were not aware of the everyday ways of the blacks in the south or the Chinese in the east. Their minds simply revolved around what they knew and were taught which was hard-and-fast Anglo-Saxon. But today’s kids are exposed to those kinds of things everyday so of course they are going to learn new
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Do kids benefit if all they all receive a trophy? Getting a trophy is a way of being part of a team‚ being involved‚ and is object you will hold dear too. So all kids benefit off getting a trophy for many reasons. In sports you have placements for how good your team does. Seeing everyone else having a trophy and walking away with nothing is a huge let down. Being given a trophy shows you did something‚ being involved‚ and will be treasured for the effort given. So giving a trophy is beneficial to
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single mother raising 3 children in this fast paced world is incredibly difficult. We moved around a lot‚ I was always at a different schools being the new kid. I focused on my school work instead of friends to ease my mind from the difficult changes. As I grew older‚ my mother’s hours at work grew longer. She had to provide for 3 growing kids and herself‚ she never went to college until she was about 35 when she got her associate’s degree at a nearby community college. From this she didn’t have
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children possessing mobile technology. Reasons For Social Development One of the biggest differences children of today will have from us‚ is the way in which they interact socially. Instead of going round each other’s houses to talk and catch up‚ kids now constantly text‚ Skype‚ or do something similar. The question that concerns some people is whether they will turn into adults who behave the same way socially as we do. Text-speak has already become very commonplace in schools. I can see why too;
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treatment‚ rehabilitation and treatments of autism‚ that might improve patient’s life. One of them is A.B.A therapy (Applied Behavior Analysis) and the aim of this therapy is to correct the patient’s behavior and communication. The article ’’ The Kids Who Beat Autism” written by Ruth Padawer describes two cases where the children with relatively same age and treatment for autism. Their parents met at a conference in Newport and states that they no longer respond to the family and have almost same
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contracting the vaccine-preventable diseases‚ no matter whether or not a child has been vaccinated. If this is a risk some parents are willing to take‚ but others face unwillingly‚ there is obviously a propitious platform for debate. The following essay aims at presenting the main arguments in favor of both sides and ultimately concluding with a solution to the debate. Every parent is concerned with their child’s health. However‚ this concern can take several directions. While some parents are
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The article Are Food Subsidies Making Our Kids Fat? Tensions Between the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act and the Farm Bill and its author Melissa Mortazavi (2011) set out to "examines the strengths and weaknesses of the most recent reform of federal attempts to address childhood obesity and children’s nutrition: The Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 (HHFKA).(pg. 1703). In her article she sets the time line of the governments involvement of nutrition as early as the times post WW II. She argues that
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The article “How Instability Affects Kids” talks about aspects of instability in households and the negative effect it has on children’s mental and physical health and behavior. This coincides with one of the main themes of the novel‚ Hillbilly Elegy‚ being that an abusive‚ unstable home environment can cause hardships in not only one’s childhood but also their adulthood. J.D Vance‚ the author‚ describes throughout the story of the several house he lived in‚ each with the newest boyfriend of his
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arrested for. However for most kids‚ this is something that they would do while playing violent video games. In today’s society we see these violent video games as a normal pass time where kids would get together and play games like black ops‚ grand theft auto‚ halo‚ assassin’s creed‚ battle field and many more. Most of these games revolve around killing‚ stealing‚ decapitating‚ assassinating and etc. Just saying these words make me cringe! Do you guys really think that kids should be exposed to such
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