The 40 Developmental Assets is a list of assets that help young children to understand how relationships with your family and friends work and how teens can live a healthy life with them. One way to better understand the Assets is to look at how the appear in novels. One novel the assets can be seen is The Pigman by Paul Zindel, a book about parents influences on kids and shows childrens care for people they love. Three assets from 40 Developmental Assets were Other Adult Relationship,Honesty,and Caring. This three assets are shown in book when Mr.Pignati buys Love’n nuts for Lorraine,John telling Mr.Pignati that Lorraine and him is not Charity Workers,and John lying to Norton to protect Mr.Pignati.
One of the Developmental Assets that is shown in The Pigman is Other Adult Relationships. This means that a teen has support from other adults who are not their family members. The asset of Other Adult Relationships is shown in The Pigman when Mr.Pignati buys a can of Love’n Nuts for Lorraine that she liked. After Lorriane, John, and Mr.Pignati went to the zoo together, they took a ...
Teitz explains that the living spaces for the pigs are so small that they will trample each other to death, and piglets are unintentionally smashed by their mothers. Teitz asserts that, not only are the living spaces small, but they...
In the story the Pigman the main characters John and Lorraine were in high school . John and Lorraine are best friends. John has an Antagonistic attitude towards school. When John smokes and drinks he does it at night so he had a Nocturnal activity. Lorraine has a Mortified feeling towards her mother and her home. The reason why is because she doesn’t treat Lorraine nicely. John and Lorraine have kind of the same life at home and with their parents. Only thing that’s different is that John has a problem with his dad and Lorraine has a problem with her mom. Their life is practically the same.
They started out not very trusting Mr.Pignati, but then they found out he wasn’t such a bad guy. They started to visit him more often and became good friends with him. They went shopping and to the zoo and played memory games with each other. They went roller balding together and Mr.
The majority of families were once considered perfect. The father went to work everyday, while the mother stayed at home and cared for her two children, “Henry” and “Sue”. The children never fought and the parents were involved in all the community events. Our society has grown to accept that there is no such thing as a perfect family. Eleven-year-old Ellen from the book Ellen Foster, by Kaye Gibbons, grows up in a household where her father is an abusive alcoholic and her mother is too sick to complete everyday tasks. By using her positive assets, and learning from her negative assets, Ellen was able to overcome a lot of challenges throughout the book.
Personal, social and emotional developments (PSED) are acknowledged as one of the starting point of accomplishment in life. PSED is about the whole child, how they are developing now, what they can do to reach their goals but also contribute to their community and how children perceive their identity and ability, understand their relation to the others in the society and apprehend their own and others’ feelings. PSED are a part of children’s development where they will be able to communicate effectively and be able to develop positive behavior among themselves and to others. According to the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), PSED is consists of three aspects which are self-confidence and self-awareness, managing feelings and behavior and making relationships (DfE, 2012). In this essay, I will discuss the factors that influence children’s behavior , theories of personal social development and the strategies to develop the positive behavior in children to promote PSED, transition and inclusion.
Developmental assets are assets that define who you are. In The Pigman By Paul Zindel you will see a lot of assets that the two protagonist John and Lorraine Lack or have. Although some readers may believe that John will grow up to be a successful adult because he has a Positive peer Influence. John will not grow up to be a healthy and successful adult because he is lacking responsibility bonding to school, and Listening skills.
Developmental Assets are skills that many people can have and lack. In the novel The Pigman, one of the main characters, Lorraine Jensen is lacking many assets in her life. These assets can affect Lorraine's life in many ways, her Family Communication is not strong which allows her to miss many opportunities, along with that, she does not have any Positive Peer Influence, both of these cause her low Self Esteem. Lorraines best friend, John Conlan, who is the total opposite of her meet their new best friend Angelo Pignati. Mr. Pignati who teaches the two teenagers many life lessons about themselves and the world, He later dies in the book from a heart attack.
John, Lorraine, and their friends Norton and Dennis were prank calling random numbers from a phone book as a game. When it was Lorraine's turn to pick a number from the phone book, she stumbled upon the Pigman’s number and dial’s it the she pretends to be a charity
The text depicts a historical perspective on Middle Childhood, as during the twentieth century, children were viewed primarily as an economic source of income, in terms of providing for the family. According to the text this happens often in European counties and in parts of the United States. Elizabeth D. Hutchinson, Dimensions of Human Behavior The Changing Life Course 3rd, 2008. In this short review we will look at how this historical perspective in itself is not a question to how, but when these individual give.
Pignati’s house to collect the money. Mr. Pignati welcomes them with open arms, telling John and Lorraine to make themselves comfortable. After some pleasant conversation with John and Lorraine, Mr. Pignati invites the two to come along with him to the zoo the next day. Before leaving Mr. Pignati’s house on the first day, he shows John and Lorraine the pig collection he started with his wife. Mr. Pignati explained to the two that he started the collection with his wife when they had first met so that she would remember him. John and Lorraine leave Mr. Pignati's house but not before John requests the charitable donation from Mr. Pignati that he had agreed to give to the “L and J
As a bestselling novel, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens by Sean Covey challenges students to become better versions of themselves through a methodology of intra- and interpersonal exercises taught by many religions and self-help programs around the globe. In this book, readers are taught that prioritizing, proactivity, good communication and intrapersonal strength are all equally important, and that one must achieve inner determination and self esteem before their relationships can be healthy. I agree with Covey, and believe that all of these habits are necessary to being an effective and successful teen. In an age where technology is so accessible and most things from 1998 seem out of place, I not only related to the text, but also realized areas of my life that were lacking. Of all the seven habits, Begin with the End in Mind (habit two), Put First Things First (habit three), and Think Win-Win (habit four) are the building blocks to a sound, effective lifestyle.
Adolescence is a time when many teenagers are struggling to determine where they fit in the world. No longer a child, but not yet an adult, issues surrounding the decisions and rights of adolescents prove to be a difficult subject to tackle. Adolescents are gradually awarded various privileges such as the right to drive, smoke, and drink, meaning there is no clear defining moment when an adolescent is fully considered an adult. Because of this, research on adolescent brain development should be heavily considered when resolving issues surrounding the well being of adolescents.
Adolescence is a period of physical and psychological development from the onset of puberty to maturity. The adolescent is no longer a child, but they haven’t yet reached adulthood. Adolescence is considered people between the ages of 13 and 21. Puberty is the physical maturing that makes an individual capable of sexual reproduction. Puberty is important to adolescence because when a child hits puberty, that’s when the child is becoming an adolescent. Puberty is a big part of an adolescent’s life.
...the blue print to their future characteristics and skills in adult life, this is observed by Dr Elizabeth Kilby, Dr Sam Wass and Psychologist Paul Howard Jones to have more of an understanding on how the children learn through their own experiences and not being adult led. Their home life and adult influences have a huge impact on their development and skills.
Adolescent DevelopmentHave you ever wondered why people act the way they do, or have the interests that they do? Have you ever wondered how or why someone, maybe even yourself, has picked the career choice or life path? Have you ever been in a situation where you have said to yourself, “Wow what I just said sounds exactly like my mom or dad.”? There are many theories as to why you might have these questions or experiences, and most have to do with the process of growing up, or adolescent development. Some of the theories that will be explored throughout this piece will be nature/nurture, continuous/discontinuous development, and early/late experience and the interplay between them that occurs during this process. Nature vs. NurtureThe question