Category: Children

According to Mollie Thompson of Duke University Law and a district attorney for undocumented immigrants in the US, the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement has detained an estimated 40,500 immigrant children at the Mexican American border (Thompson 233). This influx of migrant families is due to increased rates of crime, gang activity, and poverty…

Growing up as a teenager in the 21st century holds a unique set of perks and drawbacks. Highly exposed to technology and social media, children and young students are getting fonder of socialization. Preferring friends of the same age group for any kind of solutions, suggestions, and advice, the current generation is finding more comfort…

Serious Case Review (SCR) which is now known as Safeguarding Practise Review (SPR June 2018) plays a vital role in helping local professionals and organisations to continually improve the way they work, individually or together, to keep children safe and free from harm. The Serious Case Review is the formal process that brings together information…

Competitive sports is a great way to grow as a child or even an adult. Most people think that sports are bad for kids, they think they might get hurt, but if the kid gets hurt, they need to get that out of their mind set and try again. Kids really love sports and sports…

From as early as our time spent in the womb, our ears are already adjusting to the sounds of the exterior world. This marks the beginning of a life full of language acquisition and development. Going from a child aged 0-6 months of age, turning their heads to listen to sounds (Cox, 2011) to a…

Oral language is one of the key components of literacy, it is intertwined closely with reading, writing, vocabulary and grammar. Children learn language competency through repeated exposure to increasingly complex words via conversations they have with the adults around them as well as through specific language instruction provided by the teacher. Picture books provide the…

As technology becomes pervasive in our work and private lives our children are picking this up as well. Therefore, understanding how we interact with it is increasingly important. Addiction disorders associated with childrens interaction with games and the internet are increasing scientific research and is a big topic of discussion in this day and age.…

The disappearance of Madeleine McCann alongside other children missing has been wondering in everyones head as to what happened to these missing children? have they been found? , will they be found?. This essay will be answering most of the questions raised about Madeleine McCann missing also the missing mysteries of other missing children whose…

In modern western society, individuals strive to achieve different things, e.g. wealth, social status etc. these are all known as commodities. Yet reality shows that these commodities are rarely distributed and are hard to achieve. (Stroud, 2011) In light with this, the ability or opportunity has to achieve these commodities are known as life-chance’. The…

Sometimes, when a child keeps nagging at us, we find ourselves standing in front of a big decision. Sometimes, the decision of our life. Because we have small children the decision is hard. We think how will they behave to each other, would they not hurt each other (as I’m sure by now you already…