Essays on Childhood

People in society spend a lot of time observing, whether we are intentionally or unintentionally aware of it. People observe through their environment and day-to-day activities that transpire. Observations can be done through engaging in different actions and environmental settings such as public transportation, restaurants,...

All the stages of life are important as to what makes a person human. Everyone experiences the challenges of growing up and living in the real world. There are good times and hard times. We learn from everything we go through and continue to grow...

Since the 1990’s and early 2000’s and up until now, the childhood experience has changed drastically. Those growing up in the 90’s and early 2000’s, also known as millennials, can remember coming home after a day at school and hurriedly finishing up their nightly homework...

When life gets tough at home, how are you supposed to stop that from affecting the rest of your life? If it does affect other aspects of your life, how are you supposed to bounce back and deal with this adversity? After my home life...

Protective factors are defined as characteristics of the child, family, and wider environment that reduce the negative effect of adversity on child outcome (Masten and Reed 2002). For protective factors to come into play it is important to understand risk factors. Risk factors refer to...

When it comes to society and childhood, there are many different views and perspectives on what exactly childhood is. For example, from Phillipe Aries perspective he believed that children didn’t have a childhood. That from the minute they could walk and talk is when they...

Over the past few years, the range of research on human development has expanded from primarily focusing on child development to the inclusion of adult development. This new scope of research has opened up a multitude of questions regarding the physiological, behavioural, and psychological changes...

As a child, teen, and adult we go through many stages of changes and developments from our physical stature to our emotional stages. Even the way we think can sometimes go from wanting to be an artist when we grow up to wanting to be...

There are some critical moments in life that cause a person to really change and have a different perspective on life. It causes them to understand how significant a thing is that they take for granted, simply because they do not see the importance of...

Most of my childhood could be described as memorable. My mom and dad were excellent parents and were very involved in my life. My most memorable childhood experience most definitely has to be winning my first golf tournament. My dad spent countless hours on the...

In the memoir, “This Boy’s Life”, Tobias Wolff examines the attitudes and behaviours that all human beings exude in childhood. Indeed, Wolff demonstrates how exorbitant hope has the potential to blind individuals, resulting in an unfulfilled and disappointing life. Contrasting against the stereotypical 1950’s ideals...

A person’s’ childhood can be the reason for how they end up in life. This was the case for Jeannette Walls. In the memoir, Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, the Walls’ kids are forced to go through an unconventional childhood. They have to deal with...

When I was a small boy, there were certain toys I was fond of. Of course, there were other toys I never fancied at all. I loved toy cars and would spend the entire day playing with my assorted and varied cars. I had lorries,...

Growing up is one of the toughest things in life. We all must path that will help us as we grow older. There would be times when we will not make the right decision which we would later regret in our life for a lifetime....

Ever wondered why the people around you are so different from each other? Ever felt why you are not able to socialize as good as one of your friends who does it so easily? All these could be the result of the childhood experiences each...

The impacts and effects that childhood sexual abuse has on survivors in adulthood may be vast and varied to each individual. This essay will, therefore, look at how male childhood sexual abuse affects the adult. Combining the psychological, sociological and physical effects to the roots,...

Introduction This essay is going to be exploring how trauma during childhood can possibly cause mental health problems later in adult life. It is now widely accepted that distressing and traumatic events during childhood can cause mental health issues, and often very serious disorders. Such...

Although we live in an unpredictable world, where families and relationships break. Kids even have to live away from their mother or father. Well, nobody underestimates the significance of parents for a child’s wellbeing. However, the importance of grandparents is often underestimated in this regard....

The neglect of a child is the failure of a parent or caregiver to provide necessary to their dependent under eighteen years of age. Failure to supply the necessary food, clothing, shelter, and most importantly, love and attention to a child can put their physical,...

The theme of childhood is typically presented as one of happiness and youthful freedom. James Joyce takes a different approach, however, as he exposes the vulnerability that naturally comes with childhood but is often not expressed in literature. He does this through his use of...

Looking into Elliot Turiel and Albert Bandura’s perspectives on how kids build up a feeling of good and bad are fundamentally the same as however not precisely the equivalent. Bandura’s moral improvement hypothesis, He states that “Individuals are believed to abstract and integrate information that...

In David Mamet’s Oleanna, John, a university teacher, attempts to explain to his student Carol how he himself struggled with education as a child, in order to make her feel better about her own hardships and create an emotional connection with her. However, it is...

The film ‘The Holy Girl, directed by Lucrecia Martel, has been a topic of discussion regarding the representation of the childhood experience in cinema. It certainly pushes the boundaries of the Latin American cinema perspective and representation of the teenage girl and male adult relationship....

“Master of Suspense”, Alfred Joseph Hitchcock is one of the British directors and producers in the world. He was raised by his rigorous and religious Catholic parents, Emma Jane and William Hitchcock, who believed by the punishment from God. Moreover, in Alfred Hitchcock’s childhood, he...

Are the childhoods that society reads about in popular works of literature accurate representations of how children lived throughout history, or are the authors of these texts portraying the personalities of their characters in a more unconventional fashion? In the Lord of the Flies, the...

Children are complex, and the way a child develops differs from individual to individual. In this paper, I will explain the physical, cognitive, social, and personality naturalistic observations of my little brother, Johnny Pascual. He is in the transition stage of middle childhood (ages 6-11)...

Child psychology deals with how children grow not only physically but encompasses their mental, emotional, and social development. Historically, children were often viewed simply as smaller versions of adults however Jean Piaget suggested that children actually think differently than adults. There is several school of thoughts as to...

The early development of the brain begins soon after conception. Firstly, developing tissues begin to fold, the central cavity filled with fluid thickens. The forebrain begins to develop around 3 months and the spinal cord at 7 weeks. The first step in brain development is...

Introduction In this study the theory that is used with an experimental point of view was applied on a 24 months old child. It is an interpretation of a small part of Jean Piaget’s work, involving the observation of sensorimotor period of a child. Research...

Cognitive development, socio-emotional adjustment, behavioral adaptation and health status can all be influenced by family and other social factors. Understanding this and basic psychological needs plays a big part to the clinical child psychology world. Child psychology covers a wide variety of different factors that...