The trend to postpone childbearing has resulted in many children having older parents. What do you see as advantages and disadvantages for these children? What benefits and problems might result for parents being older?
Advantages for children:
-their parents are more relaxed
-their parents have more money
-their parents are wiser and can teach them more about life
Advantages for parents:
-they have the means to support the kids
-they don't have to miss out on the fun of being young
-they are ready to settle down
-they are more patient and relaxed with the children
-they will have someone to take care of them when they are old
Disadvantages for children:
-their parents are old and less energetic
-their parents do not related as well with them as if they were younger
-they may be embarrassed of their parents being old, especially during adolescence
-their parents may die and get sick before the children are mature enough to deal with it
-they probably wont get to know their grandparents
Disadvantages for parents:
-Retirement might not be as relaxing
-their health may fail before they are done raising their children
-their children may be embarrassed of them
Write a brief letter to a new parent in which you describe information about games to play with the baby which will reveal the perceptual abilities of the baby. Base your games
on current research and tasks from the Brazelton Scale.
Dear New Parent,
Based on current research and tasks from the Brazelton Scale, I would like to recommend games to play with your new baby. These games will reveal the perceptual abilities of the baby. Read books to the baby with simple black and white pictures. Repeat the book checking the baby's responses to your voice and the pictures in the book. Have a rattle for the new baby. Play with the rattle and check the baby's response to the rattle. Reading a story to the baby will also check its response to inanimate visual and auditory stimuli. Play peek-a-boo with the baby. This will test the defensive movements of the baby (place your hands over the baby's eyes as well). As the baby grows older, you can read more visually stimulating books. Eventually, you need to let your baby make its own gaming decisions.
Plan a one-week school lunch program for young children based upon information presented in Chapter 6.
Monday
Grilled Chicken, (skinless and boneless)
Baked potato (free of butter and sour cream)
Green beans or broccoli
Skim milk or chocolate skim milk
The year of 1776 was a time of revolution, independence, and patriotism. American colonists had severed their umbilical cord to the Mother Country and declared themselves “Free and Independent States”.1 The chains of monarchy had been thrown off and a new government was formed. Shying away from a totalitarian government, the Second Continental Congress drafted a document called the Articles of Confederation which established a loose union of the states. It was an attempt at self-government that ended in failure. The Articles of Confederation had many defects which included a weak central government that lacked the power to tax, regulate trade, required equal representation and a unanimous vote to amend the Articles, and had only a legislative branch. As a result the United States lacked respect from foreign countries. These flaws were so severe that a new government had to be drafted and as a result the Constitution was born. This document remedied the weak points of the federal government and created one that was strong and fair, yet still governed by the people.
By day 22, the child’s heart begins to pump with their own blood. By week 5 the child’s eyes, legs, and hands begin to develop. By weeks 9 and 10 the baby is able to turn its head and frown. This article also shares with us that by the 20th week gestation, the baby can recognize its mother’s voice. And lastly it gives us the last steps before the baby is born; 7 to 9 months gestation is when the baby is using four of the five senses. He knows the difference between waking and sleeping and can relate to the moods of the
In 1776, when the United States declared independence from Britain, the new country needed a set of laws to apply to all of the states to replace the earlier British rule. The colonists, however, were concerned that if the United States put too much power in the central government the states rights would vanish. Therefore, the first form of government, the Articles of Confederation, gave too much power to the states and insufficient power to the central government. States could create their own money and refuse federal taxes, which caused many tribulations and almost destroyed the new country. In 1787, delegates from twelve states came together to revise the Articles of Constitution to provide the citizens with a stronger central government. However, instead of revising the Articles, the constitution was formed. The final document the delegates produced provided great compromises and ratification would help save the country from upheaval.
...at an earlier age, hopefully we can prevent it” (qtd. in Holzman A1). All of this means that families not taking their children’s health into their own matters will have great consequences in the generations to come here at Lancaster.
The purpose of this assignment is to answer the three posed questions in regards to my Virtual Child, who I will refer to as Kieran throughout my assignment. I will be describing changes in his exploratory and problem solving behaviors as well as analyzing his temperament. I will also summarize his developmental assessment at nineteen months old that may differ from my perception of what was assessed through his developmental examiner. Kieran was at the age of eight months when I first used the object permanence test developed by Jean Piaget, in the aspect of sensorimotor development in both stage 3 and 4 of the Six Substages of Sensorimotor Development (Table 6-2, pg 154). At stage 3, infants begin to show greater interest in their world with objects becoming incorporated into what is called the secondary circular reaction where they start to learn about the actions associated with objects.
In Antigone, Sophocles illustrates Antigone to rise above her gender stereotype and do what is forbidden. Antigone is expected to sit in her room and wait for a man to tell her what move to make next throughout her life. After her brothers battle to the death, one is buried and one is not. Antigone does not stand for this at all and expects both of her brothers to be buried. When she is forbidden to leave her room and bury her brother, she does not agree. Antigone sneaks out of her room during the night to bury her brother. The next morning, Creon, who is the King of Thebes,
Which I can not fully disagree with that statement because I believe art and language both play a huge role in our lives and progression in this world, no matter what form it is in. Tolstoy argues that art plays a central role in the development of humankind. If language and art are two separate functions, I do not believe that art plays a central role in the development of humankind but art and language as a whole do. Each day, no matter where we are at, or sitting, different forms of art, and expressions from individuals that surrounds
Despite the male dominant society of Ancient Greece, the women in Sophocles’ play Antigone all express capabilities of powerful influence and each individually possess unique characteristics, showing both similarities and contrasts. The women in the play are a pivotal aspect that keeps the plot moving and ultimately leads to the catharsis of this tragedy. Beginning from the argument between Antigone and Ismene to Eurydice’s suicide, a male takes his own life and another loses everything he had all as a result of the acts these women part take in. The women all put their own family members above all else, but the way they go about showing that cherishment separates them amongst many other things.
Creon is the tragic character of Antigone because his pride blocks the path of him being wise. He sentences his niece, Antigone, to death because she has buried her brother, Polynices, whom Creon considers a traitor. This leads to an argument to his son, Haimon, who is also Antigone’s fiancé. Haimon disagrees with his father and believes that Antigone should not die because she was only following the divine laws by burying her brother. However, Creon still remains stubborn and disagrees with his son since he believes Antigone should be punished for disobeying the ruler’s law. In return, Haimon says “The city would deny it to a man” (2. 3. 102). He explains that the people of Thebes disagrees with his father regarding Antigone’s punishment and considers her honorable. Unfortunately, the citizens fear Creon and they’re helpless in this situation. This leads Creon to get enraged at his son and his mind is still set on executing Antigone. Haimon responds by saying “Not here, no: She will not die here, King...
“Gender,” throughout the years has been defined and redefined by societies, and individuals. “Gender roles,” have, and still do contribute to these definitions. Literature contains prime examples of how gender roles were perceived in different time periods, showing readers the views of an author through the characters and their traits. Sophocles’ Antigone is a Greek tragedy, that heavily depicts the gender roles found in ancient Greek society, also providing insight into what would be seen as “normal” and “abnormal” behavior in relation to gender in Greece. In the play, Antigone, a daughter of the late King of Thebes, Oedipus, becomes distraught when she learns that her two brothers have killed each other, and furthermore, that her uncle and newfound king, Creon has forbidden the burial of one of her brothers.
In this assignment I am going to describe a child observation that I have done in a nursery for twenty minutes in a play setting. I will explain the strengths and weaknesses of naturalistic observation through the key developmental milestones based in Mary Sheridan (2005) check-list and provide a theoretical explanation to support the naturalistic observation.
Secrets of Baby Behavior. Infant Development from 6 to 7 months: New Wonders, New Skills, and New Fears. Retrieved March 22, 2014, from http://www.secretsofbabybehavior.com/2009/10/infant-development-from-6-to-7-months.html. McLeod, S. (2008). The 'Secondary'.
Another role this conflict plays in tragedy is one that creates tension in the oikos, as Creon is Antigone’s uncle he is the ruler of the household so he has control over Antigone. Antigone is a very extreme believer of her oikos which was a role given to women in the Athenian age as she gives loyalty to her family and nothing else. She will do anything for her family, which makes her ignore laws of state, values of the city; she is not simply rebellious to Thebes but she is also a member of the family. “These laws-i was not about to break them, not out of fear of some man’s wounded pride, and face the retribution of gods. Die I must, I’ve known it all my life-…But if I had allowed my own mother’s son to rot, an unburied corpse-that would have
Piaget described this stage to be where the infant is making sense of the world and during this stage the infant's knowledge is limited. This is where the main senses come into play, such as touch, taste, smell etc. At this stage sport to an infant is a sensory experience, with the use of a ball for example for exploration. Object permanence was highlighted by Piaget as one of the most important accomplishments of the sensorimotor stage. Object permanence is an infant's understanding that objects exists even if the object can not be heard or seen. For example with the game Hide and Seek, a younger infant will simply believe that the person hiding has completely vanished and will be shocked once that person is visible again whereas an older infant who understands object per...
Ultimately, I find that Antigone is a play that can be interpreted in many different ways. Through the examination of characters, events and scholarly arguments I have attempted to show that the catalyst for Antigone’s tragic end stems from the edict of Creon, an edict that as a ruler he is within his rights to make – but which Sophocles ultimately forces Creon to acknowledge as wrong. However, whilst the actions and events leading up to this event cause Antigone to disregard the law in order to pay burial rites to her brother, her treatment of Creon and acceptance of her fate must show that she herself accounts for a decent share in the responsibility for her own death.