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Title: Talking about Sex and Puberty Author: Tyndale House Publishers Inc. Date Published: 1999 Why Relevant and Summary: This is relevant because it talks about what should be talked about in Puberty and sex for both boys and girls. How to approach them and how to explain it to them . How this Influenced My Thinking: This made me realize that there are more ways to talk about sex and puberty to a child than how I got talked to. It made me think how I will someday talk to my child about puberty and sex. Credibility: It came from the Focus on Family website which seems to have quite a lot of great resources.

Title: Formal Operational Stage Author: Saul McLeod Date Published: 2010 Why Relevant and Summary: Explains clearly the Formal Operational Stage and has many ideas of tests to determine the difference between a Formal Operational thinker and a Concrete Operational Thinker. Discusses thought processes such as 'inferential reasoning', 'third eye problem', and the pendulum task to explain in detail what the Formal Operational Stage requires. How this influenced my thinking: Gave me lots of ideas of ways to test for the Formal Operational Stage and to discuss it effectively in my paper. Credibility of Source: SimplyPsychology - great source

Title: Formal Operational Stage Author: Saul McLeod Date Published: 2010 Why Relevant and Summary: This article discusses Piaget's concept of formal operational stage, which is the stage when adolescents gain the ability to think in an abstract manner around the age 11+. This article also provides definitions and examples for key terms like inferential reasoning, concrete operational stage, pendulum task. How This Influenced My Thinking: I was able to gasp the concept for pendulum task better than from reading the textbook. Credibility of Source: not sure how credible but found on simply psychology.

Title: Helping kids cope with seperation and divorce Author: Jocelyn Block Date Published: Nov 2012 Why Relevant and Summary: This article is a parents guide to supporting children during divorce. It describes the needs and expectations needed for healthy coping through divorce. Children need reassurance, stability, patience, and love even more during a divorce. Keeping these important staples intact will help the child deal with divorce. It discusses how kids are going to express their feelings and red flags for more serious problems developing due to divorce. How This Influenced My Thinking: I have always thought that no matter what the parents do the children involved in divorces will feel the repercussions and that there is nothing that parents can do to fix it. This false belief that I have had is untrue-many children that are provided stable,secure, and loving homes after divorce learn to cope and turn out to be just fine. But it is all dependent on the parents methods of making the divorce less traumatic for the child. Credibility of Source: Its credible- the authors are doctors.

Title: Children and Divorce Authors: Jocelyn Block, Gina Kemp, Melinda Smith, and Jeanne Segal Date Published: Nov, 2012 Why Relevant and Summary: This article was a wealth of information and advice about helping children through divorce. It was put in a clear concise way with explainations How This Influenced My Thinking: I was a child of divorce, but at an age where it wasn't as impactful. It was interesting to see what my parents did right and wrong. Credibility of Source: Written by MA's and a PhD-High

Title: Children and Divorce: Helping Kids Cope with Separation and Divorce Author: Jocelyn Block, M.A., Gina Kemp, M.A., Melinda Smith, M.A., and Jeanne Segal, Ph.D. Date Published: November 2012 Why Relevant and Summary: This article is very detailed with handling a divorce with children. The article gives detailed tips in how to help your children cope with a divorce. How This Influenced My Thinking:This helped me understand why it is need to focus on the children during a divorce proceeding and how divorce can effect a child. Credibility of Source: very reliable source the authors have M.A's and Ph.D's.

Title: Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children Author: Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders Why Relevant and Summary: This article is relevant to testing intelligence because the Wechsler Intelligence Scale is a method of measurement for testing intelligence in children. This scale offers subtests that measures intelligence by verbal and nonverbal performance. How This Influenced My Thinking: I was able to better understand the different subtests that makes up the Wechsler Intelligence scale. Credibility of Source: Found on the Encyclopedia for Mental Disorders.

Title: Child Obesity: Is Your Child Overweight or Obese? Author: Catherine Holecko Date published: N.D. Summary and why relevant: This article defines what a BMI is and how the doctors calculates a child's BMI. The article also discussing reasons for why a child may become obese. How this influenced my thinking: This article gave me a better understanding of how children's body mass index was calculated. Credibility of source: well known website that is frequently used to answer questions.

Title: Child Obesity: Is your Child Overweight or Obese? Author: Catherine Holecko Date Published: n.d Why Relevant and Summary: It informs us how obesity is measured, what are the causes, an what can be done to change. How This Influenced My Thinking: It gave me more knowledge on the topic. It informs you what else child obesity can lead to if it's not treated. Credibility of Source: Seems credible.

Title: Focus on Kids: The Effects of Divorce on Children Author: Karen DeBord Date Published: n.d. Why Relevant and Summary: It's relevant because it discusses what the child feels and what things may change according to which age group he or she is in. How This Influenced My Thinking: It gave me more knowledge on how it is kids feel. This is beneficial to me because I want to work with children. Credibility of Source: Seems credible. It lists all the sources used.

Title-Sex and Puberty Author-Rebecca Caroll Date-2013 Why relevant and Summary-It talks about have the puberty and sex talk with your children. How has this influenced your thinking- I learned the right way to have the talk. Creditability-Seems credible because of the recency

Title: Talking To Your Kids About Sex date: May 2005 author: American Academy of child and adolescent psychiatry why relevant and summary: This article offers an overview on what to expect as your child approaches middle childhood and adolescence. It explain what to expect the question to be at certain stages and how much information to give and how to present it. how has this influenced my thinking: I have a 7 and a 9 year old and I am very interested to know as much as possible about this topic. I was very surprised to read how the professionals contributing to this article find it a OK to explain to an 8 year old the basic concept of conception. credibility of source: it was published on the "American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry" website.

title: Social Issues: What Can Parents Do? author: PBS- parents date: n.d why relevant and summary: I found this article very interesting, it gives great advice on how can parents help their kids with their friendships and what can they do without overpowering them. how has this influenced my thinking: This article has confirmed a lot of strategies that I have used with my kids and their friends so far. credibility of source: it is published on the PBS website.

Title: Face Bullying With Confidence 8 Kidpower Skills We Can Use Right Away Author: Irene van der Zande Date: n.d. Why relevant and summary: This article was an extract from a book called "Bullying - What Adults Need to Know and Do to Keep Kids Safe", which gives advice on how to handle bullying and how to help young children who are subject to it. It gives 8 tips that anyone who works with children can find useful. It stresses the idea that this is a phenomena that unfortunately exists in our schools, but it is preventable. We should educate ourselves and our kids and empower them to face challenges with confidence. How has this influenced my thinking: I am a mother of two young boys, and even though we have not experienced any bullying, is good to know as much as possible that in any event I can help my boys deal with this challenge. Credibility of source: This article was published on Kid-power.com by its founder who is a published author. Kidpower is a non profit organization which advocates and helps kids against abuse, kidnapping, bullying etc nation wide and internationally.

Title: Early friendships profoundly affects child's development Author: Paul Schwartz Date Published: N.D. Why relevant and summary: This article discusses the importance of friendship during early childhood and middlechildhood. It discusses some of the factors that allows a child to keep a friend and the possible outcomes when a child is rejected. This article also discussed that it is imperative that a parent understand when a child is lonely or just simply wants to be alone. How this influenced my thinking: I found it interesting that like adults children need their alone time. I never realized the importance of them being able to play by themself and if a parent is too pushy that it could cause them to withdraw. Credibility of Source: Article was published by a Dr.

Title: Middle-School Friends Are Critical For Future Success Author: Rick Nauert Date Published: January 13, 2011 Why Relevant and Summary: It talks about how boys and girls whose friends are socially active in ways where rules are respected do better in their classroom work. How This Influenced My Thinking: On how it is important to have friendships when you are growing up Credibility of Source: Good

Title: Middle Childhood (6-8 years of age) Author: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Date Published: August 12, 2012 Why Relevant and Summary: Well this is relevant because it talks about middle childhood and what it is that can and will most likely affect children. It is actually useful information that I found to be interesting because there are things that even I did not know. How this Influenced My Thinking: It influenced my thinking by making me realize that middle childhood was perhaps the most important time in a child's life that mattered the most to them. looking back now at y middle childhood I can see why it was so important. that's the period in time where things changed for me and I know changed for every other kid around me. Credibility: It is from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, which is a Government Website.

Title:Middle Childhood to Middle Adolescence: Development from Ages 8 to 18 Author:Blume & Zembar Date Published:2009 Why Relevant and Summary: This source is all about middle childhood and adolescence and gives you a good sense how the progression from childhood into adolescence including social interactions How This Influenced My Thinking:This source gave me a good understanding about peer relationships in particular in what makes middle age children socially acceptable and popular Credibility of Source:high

Title: Children and divorce Author: No Author Date Published: Updated March 2011 Why Relevant and summary: It is relevant because it talks about divorce and how it affects children. It also discusses what the best approach is when dealing with children and divorce. How this influenced my thinking: I am now more conscious and aware that everything that parents do will affect their children.

Title: Shelley Hymel Heads Bullying Research Network Author: Erin Anderson Date Published: June 15, 2011 Why Relevant and Summary: Website had good overview of event for bullying with link to full article. How This Influenced My Thinking: Gave an overview of bullying that confirmed things I saw with my own children while they were in elementary school. Credibility of Source: Very Good.

Title: Peer Relations in Middle Childhood Author: Blume & Zembar Date: n.d. Why Relevant and Summary: This article explains how friendship is important in middle childhood. Whether or not someone likes you or dislikes you can really make or break a person. Friends provide all the needs the one self can use at that time and in the future. For one of them being a need for survival because in middle childhood friendship is based on people liking you which then determines their popularity status. Also discussed in this article is the individual need for success, power, status, approval, autonomy, and etc. It also expresses the concerns of rejection in children at this age and it affects them. How this influenced my thinking: This helped my understanding of why it is important for us to connect with others and increase our social skills. I have found a new understanding of the word friendship from this article. Credibility: Seems credible because they cited quotes.

Title: Peer Relations in Middle Childhood Author: By L.B. Blume|M.J. Zembar Date Published: 2007 Why relevant and summary: great information on research and finding of socialization patterns- shows a strong correlation between playground play and future choices in adult relationships. The habit forming patters of socialization developed at an early age impact how we relate to people as we become older. How this influenced my thinking: I was not aware how big of an impact peer relations/friendships in middle childhood had on adults. Credibility of source: seems very credible. On bottom of article states reference: Excerpt from Middle Childhood to Middle Adolescence: Development from Ages 8 to 18, by L.B. Blume, M.J. Zembar, 2007 edition, p. 178-183.

Title: Promoting Resilience in Children: What Parents Can Do Authors: Christine A. Christle, M.Ed., Debra A. Harley, Ph.D., C. Michael, Nelson, Ed.D., Karen Jones Date Published: n.d. Why Relevant and Summary: I thought this article was pertinent to friendships in middle childhood, and in particular, it seemed useful in terms of dealing with negative social interactions. How This Influenced My Thinking: It identified a significant factor that explains why some kids succeed. That factor is resilience. Credibility of Source: High

Title: Co-Parenting After Divorce - Sixteen Arguments in Support of Co-Parenting Author: Edward Kruk, Ph.D. Date published: April 16, 2012 Why relevant and summary: In the absence of violence, abuse, etc., the best thing for children in the midst of divorce is to have time with both parents. Shared parenting or Co-Parenting encourages children to maintain meaningful relationships with both parents after a divorce. Although in practice, this can be difficult and the reality is that in many divorces, kids will live primarily with one parent, the point is to set aside our anger and conflicts with the ex spouse and really put the children's needs first. How this influenced my thinking: I recently went through a divorce, and my ex spouse lives on the opposite coast. Co-parenting is quite tricky, but the bottom line is that we both agree that the kids need their father in the picture as much as possible. We have agreed to never, ever use the children as a weapon against each other. We always consult each other in terms of the children's needs, education, etc. Although the kids live 100% of the time with me, I encourage daily contact with their father via Skype/FaceTime, and when they are a bit older, they will be able to travel and spend some school vacations with their dad. Credibility: Psychology Today blog is credible.