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- 451: The Secret Within: Teen Pregnancy, The Cause and Effect on Teens
- ... under peer pressure. While all of these were inexcusable reasons, many of the females found out that they were pregnant for all of the wrong reasons. Today several of theses teen parents are raising the child singling, while others are suffering from emotion and mental problems. The Effects on a Teen Over the United States, teen pregnancy has increased tremendously compared to other countries. Also 13% of all births are to teenagers. Statistics have shown that 85% of all teenage pregnancies are unplanned. . With that high rate 25% of teenage mothers will have a second child within two years after their first child’s birth (Teen Pregnancy, internet). The general rule is: the younger the mother, the greater the risk of complications for both the mother and child. With all of the preventions of pregnancy how could ...
- 452: Ritalin and Its Uses
- ... children have the hyperactivity, and thus are labeled to have ADD. ADD is not treated with Ritalin; antidepressants are more commonly used. One of the problems with the label ADHD is that just because a child may be overly hyper, doesn't mean the child is not paying attention. The problem is, the child is paying too much attention to too many things at the same time. ADHD is children's #1 childhood psychiatric disorder. The prevalence is three times as likely in boys than girls. The children ...
- 453: The American Classroom: Making it work for the Native American
- ... and encouragement, especially for issues that are particularly relevant to the Native American. Teachers need to be aware of the problems that plaque Native Americans as a culture such as separations, divorces, unemployment, alcoholism, and child abuse (Manning 72). If teachers are to follow these recommendations many of the reasons that are given for dropping out could be alleviated. In order for many of these things to happen teachers have to have ... An important part of the Native American's cultural identity is the relationship they have with their family. For most European American families the family is limited to the immediate family. For the Native American child their family structure can be completely different then their peers that they come in contact with everyday. Native American children are taught and showed early that they are gifts, worthy of being shared. The ...
- 454: Heart Murmurr
- Heart Murmur, Atherosclerosis, & Heart Failure A heart murmur is a sound caused by blood flowing through a child's heart or through blood vessels entering or leaving the heart. More that 50 percent of all people will be diagnosed with a heart murmur sometime in their lives. When a child's doctor or nurse practitioner detects a heart murmur, this causes many parents quite a bit of anxiety, especially if they have relatives with heart disease. Luckily, in most children a heart murmur does not ... is a vibratory musical murmur called a Still's murmur. No one knows the cause of the murmur other than blood flowing through a healthy vigorous heart. The murmur is usually detected at a well-child visit or if the child comes in with fever or some other form of illness. In times of fever or illness, the murmur will be louder because the heart is pumping harder, and blood ...
- 455: The Dissolution Of Marriage
- ... responsibility'. This concept now brings in all duties, powers, responsibility and authority which by law, parents have in relation to children. As it was usually only thought of when a parent had custody of a child, now both parents have responsibilities. When deciding of who should have 'residence' or 'contact' to the child, the court will consider, who has been caring for the child since the separation, the best interests long term for the child, the wishes of the child, any special needs of the child, the childs' relation ship with each parent, the parents willingness to care ...
- 456: Attention Deficit Disorder
- ... problematic or harder to keep in line, because A.D.H..D. is involving much more hyperactive behavior. A.D.D. is a genetic disease, and in the case of A..D..D. If a child has it there is a more than good chance the parent has it as well. Fifty percent of parents that have kids with A.D.D. have A.D.D. as well. There are many ... very anxious because of the disease, they seem to not know where to begin something and often get frustrated. There are lots more signs of A..D..D. that one would normally have as a child such as not being able to pay close attention, making careless mistakes on what your doing, Difficulty with attention, not listening or appearing not to listen when spoken directly to, not following directions, failure or ... A..D..D.. Also if you do have A..D..D. you do not necessarily have to have all of these symptoms. Adults can get A..D..D. as well just as easily as a child for that matter. There are also noticeable symptoms involving adults. Most of them are lack of organization, moods changing constantly, hot temperedness, rather sensitive or over sensitive, low tolerance to frustration, can at times ...
- 457: Thomas Gordon: Active Listening
- ... that one the most effective ways of responding to children’s “feeling” or “problem” messages is the invitation to say more or as he calls it, “the door opener”. This type of response invites the child to share his own feelings or ideas. The important thing is that the listener does not communicate any of his own judgments or feelings. When the listener refrains from asking questions, giving advice, teaching or ... but participants learn how to keep it open. Gordon says that in order to learn how to listen actively, the teacher or parent must understand more about the communication process. He says that when a child decides to communicate with a parent or teacher, it is because he has a need. The child’s organism is in a state of “disequilibrium” because there is something going on inside him. He wants, or needs something. In order to bring the organism back to a state of equilibrium the ...
- 458: Effects of TV on Children
- Effects of TV on Children Sitting in school, a schoolchild sits anxiously watching the clock. The teacher is talking to the class, but the child just can’t wait to get home. When the bell finally rings, they run out of the classroom, and all the way home. After blasting in the house, they run to turn on the TV ... in many American homes today. What many people don’t realize are the problems that can develop from young children watching too much TV. Many emerging dilemmas are resulting from this concern. When a young child with a maturing brain sits in front of the TV for several hours every day, it can instigate loss of creativity, impatience, and violence further along down the road. The ability to be creative is an important factor in the development of a young child’s mind. By sitting down and watching TV for a couple hours, the child is entertained, but is also not thinking. Information in spoon-fed to them, so when it comes time to read ...
- 459: Pros And Cons Of Abortion
- ... years to come. The main controversy is should abortion be legalized? First before we get into the many sides of abortion we must first define abortion. Abortion is the destruction of the fetus or unborn child while the child is still in the mothers womb. This can be done by almost anyone from the mother herself to back alley abortions and even to abortions by clinics set up especially for this purpose. There are ... CHOICE or those who believe it is the womans right to choose if she wants to have an abortion. These two groups offer different solutions to problem. The pro-life solution is to have the child and basically live with it. They believe abortion is not an answer. The pro-choice solution is abortion because of reasons they feel are appropriate. Although abortion is morally and ethically wrong should it ...
- 460: The White Man's Abuse on the Lands
- The White Man's Abuse on the Lands Question: Does the white man attempt to care for or respect the earth? Claim: Indians share common thoughts on different aspects of the earth on how the white man does not care ... agreement of the three in the spiritual sense of the land. In Chief Seattle's speech, he talks in more of the spiritual sense of the land. But it is in direct relationship to the abuse that the White Man exerts on the land. He makes many references towards the Indian Spiritual being, that he is very different from that of the White Man. He makes many analogies towards that of ... to love you and the land of their nativity as soon as they pass the portals of the tomb and wander way beyond the stars." In the speech of Sitting Bull, he speaks of the abuse of the land by the White Man but on a different level then that of Chief Seattle. He says that the Earth is not ours, not theirs, not anybody's to own. He cannot ...
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