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Angela Walz

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  • Disadvantages of Being an Only Child Attention – Only children do not get away with much, so there is a little fun lost in trying to see if you can put one over on mom or dad. Parents of only children are very aware of what their child is up to, even if the child believes otherwise. Opportunity to teach – Only children do not get the opportunity to teach their younger siblings how to do things. This is not necessarily a disadvantage that I view as critical, but there certainly is a sense of pride and even joy in being a model and a teacher to a younger sibling. In my case, I took on this role with younger children in the neighborhood and was fulfilled. Blame game – There is no one to blame when you are an only child and do something you shouldn’t. I tried to blame the dog constantly. It never worked! (But on the flip side, not having anyone else to serve as a scapegoat teaches a child to take responsibility for their actions).
  • Over Reliance – Some only children may become overly reliant on their parents, depending on how they are parented. Only children may get very used to mom doing everything (or a lot of things) for them. This is not a case of only children being spoiled, but rather a case of workload. Parents of only children do not have nearly the amount of laundry, cooking, cleaning, shopping and the like to do as, say, a parent of six children. Therefore, they may do most of those tasks themselves instead of having the child pitch in. Stereotypes – Only children are subject to numerous stereotypes, all of which are pretty negative. They are viewed as spoiled, overprotected, unable to share, lonely, domineering/pushy, and bratty to name a few. I was constantly under review for being an only child. It seemed like every adult that I came in contact with wanted me to fit the mold that they saw only children fitting into
  • Pressure – There is often a lot of pressure placed on only children. This pressure comes from a variety of sources: parents, family members, teachers, friends, and yourself. Parents and family can pressure their only child to get straight A’s, as they are afforded the opportunity of increased parental involvement with schoolwork. Parents and family can also pressure only children to participate in and excel at extracurricular activities. Teachers expect only children to serve as better role models for their peers. I personally never understood this; however, I was subject to it. Friends pressure the only child to convince his or her parents to buy a particular item, take them all somewhere, etc., since they have nothing better to do or spend their money on. But worst of all is the pressure an only child will put on his or herself. Only children have a tendency to become perfectionists and type “A” personalities. Every only child I know fit one or both of these categories. Not having siblings to hide behind or blend in with can make it tough for an only child to just be “average.” There is a strong desire to please other people, and unfortunately most “other people” will have you think that pleasing comes in the form of perfection. I grew up placing a lot of pressure on myself in a variety of areas. I have let some of this go as an adult but for the most part, I am still very much the only child putting all kinds of pressure on myself to be better than my best.
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  • One last thought before I leave you to ponder life as an only child. Growing up, everyone (except for my parents) asked me if I wanted a sibling. My parents were chastised for not giving me a playmate. All children need a sibling to play with, right? No, children do not. Children need love, affection, and good role models as parents. Children then need the opportunity to engage in play either by themselves or with other children (siblings or friends). Only children often have imaginary friends, which are very healthy. No harm is done by not having a built in playmate in the house. What if there is a 15 year age difference between siblings? Not the ideal playmate for a toddler, right? I absolutely loved being an only child, as did my husband. This is why we have decided to only have one child. We know the pros and are aware of the cons, but we feel strongly that this is right for our family. Raising an only child is no easier or harder than raising four children. It is just a different journey. Stay tuned for part two (posting tomorrow) where I look at what I call “parenting nuances” as they relate to the only child.
Billie Jo Czeck

Sibling rivalry 'good for children' | Society | The Guardian - 0 views

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  • sibling rivalry can boost mental and emotional development, increase maturity and enhance social skills.
  • "The more combative siblings are, and the more they argue and the older child puts the younger one down, the more they are learning complex lessons about communication and the subtleties of language," said Dr Claire Hughes
  • "The more the children upset each other, the more they learn about regulating their emotions and how they can affect the emotions of others,"
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  • "The more they point-score, the more it can motivate them to achieve.
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Abria Stewart

Social Psychologist, Parenting Expert and Author - Susan Newman Ph.D. » Only ... - 0 views

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  • Myth: Only children are dependent. Fact: Because of adult guidance and lack of siblings to lean on, only children are more self-reliant and independent than those who have brothers and sisters to fend for them.
  • Myth: Only children become too mature too quickly. Fact: Children with siblings relate and talk to their siblings rather than their parents. The only child’s primary role models are parents. The result is that only children copy adult behavior as well as adult speech patterns and develop good reasoning skills early on making them better equipped to handle the ups and downs of growing up. A good thing, for sure. Myths die hard and slowly.
  • Myth: Only children are aggressive and bossy. Fact: Only children learn quickly that attempting to run the show, a ploy that they may get away with at home, doesn’t work with friends and a bossy, aggressive attitude is a quick ticket to ostracism from the group. Lacking siblings, only children want to be included and well liked. Myth: All only children have imaginary companions to compensate for their loneliness. Fact: There is no scientific evidence. Jerome Singer, Ph.D., professor of psychology and child study at Yale University, confirms that the imagination required to create make-believe friends “is not the exclusive property of the ‘only’ child, the isolated, the ill or the handicapped. Imaginary friends serve a purpose of meeting a need—to confront loneliness, to combat a fear, or to compensate for feelings of weakness in relation to adults or older children.” Any child can feel that need.
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  • Myth: Only children are spoiled. Fact: Being spoiled is a reflection of our society. The Chinese feared they were raising a generation of “little emperors” when their only child policy was in effect. Looking back 30 years later researchers have found that only children are not particularly spoiled and found no difference in only children’s relationships with friends when studied with children who had siblings.
Karlee Verhaagh

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  • inclusion is a relationship between two classes that
  • exists when all members of the first class are also members of the second
  • nclusion in a classroom setting is considered placing a child in a classroom with the least
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  • restrictive environment that is most appropriate to the particular child
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  • th mainstreaming students with disabilities into standard
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  • having them participate in specialty classes that are in separate rooms from
  • classrooms instead of
  • the rest of their peers
  • There are laws protecting children that have disabilities and there are many rules and regulations that need to be taken into account in order to meet the requirements of mainstreaming children with disabilities in the classroom and for school-related activities.
  • The Education for All Handicapped Children Act (Public Law 94-142) was passed in 1975 and became effective in 1977. This act was the first of its kind to protect all eligible students of school age who had disabilities that affected classroom performance. The law is now called the Individuals with Disabilities Educational Improvement Act (IDEA) and was recently amended in
  • 2004. It is now considered the foundation for special education practice and policy (ACA Encyclopedia of Counseling, 2008).
  • IDEA (2004) requires that all eligible children with disabilities between the ages of 3 and 21 receive a free, appropriate public education based on their individual educational needs.
  • There are two types of parents in this situation. First, there is the group of parents who have children that have some fOim of cognitive or physical disability that may limit their educational functioning. The second group of parents includes those who have children that are deemed non-disabled. Both groups of parents have been questioned about how they feel about inclusion in the classroom.
  • Parents have expressed concerns about their child being in a classroom with children who have disabilities. However, research has shown that non-disabled children being in a classroom with disabled children can provide them with an opportunity to learn about disabilities, capabilities of people with disabilities, and how important integration is
  • The parents of children with disabilities already have so much to worry about when it comes to the needs of their child. In many cases, these parents have been dealing with issues from the disability of their child since the day their child was born.
  • to inclusion may include smaller class sizes for more one-on-one attention available for the child or access to specialized equipment that is readily available in the classroom to assist the child with the task at hand.
  • Since each case is circumstantial, the voice of the parents can be an important paIi of their child's success in the classroom. From the perspective that they provide, educators might determine the critical information that can better assist in helping the child with disabilities.
  • Parent observations, opinions and input are all critical to the development of the plan for inclusion in traditional classroom settings.
  • The most important factors parents are often wOlTied about for ensuring their child's success in a mainstreamed setting is the support that the teacher offers the child when they need it, and the level of training that the teacher has received to work with their child
  • Assumptions and Limitations
  • Inclusion:
  • Mainstreaming:
  • Physical Disability:
  • Cognitive Disability:
  • Special Needs:
  • Standard Classroom/Traditional Classroom Setting:
  • Social Aspect:
  • The laws that protect children with disabilities, clearly states parents have the right to be involved in planning for the best education for their child.
  • History and Legal Mandates
  • Least Restrictive Environment
  • Concerns Regarding Mainstreaming Children
  • Parents Positive Perspectives of Mainstreaming
  • Parents Negative Viewpoints on Inclusion
  • Chapter III: Summary and Recommendations
Karlee Verhaagh

Mainstreaming Children with Disabilities: Is it in the Child's Best Interest? - 0 views

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  • Those students that are mainstreamed feel self conscious or rejected by non-disabled students. Children with disabilities feel embarrassed by the additional help provided to them in the classroom. Children with disabilities may feel more comfortable in an environment where the same students are working together on the same level.
  • Children that are mainstreamed may require more time and attention taking away from the needs of the rest of the class. Some children with disabilities may not combine well with other students depending on their disability. Teachers may not have the training or education to teach some children with disabilities. General education standards may be lowered to the level of the least able student setting the entire class back.
Abria Stewart

Single-Child Families on the Rise - FamilyEducation.com - 0 views

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  • "More often than not, only children will prefer the company of adults and view other children as loose cannons. They command a great deal of attention from adults, and if a parent doesn't know how to get that under control, they'll be at the mercy of that child."
  • On the other hand, White notes, parents of only children also need to learn to leave their only offspring alone.
  • On the plus side, the extra time only children spend interacting with adults frequently gives them a leg up academically and socially.
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  • "Only children also feel friendships much more deeply,"
  • "They develop very fierce loyalties, because their friendships fulfill the need to have a sibling."
Angela Walz

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  • He/she is lonely. He/she is self-centred. He/she is a spoiled brat He/she is selfish. He/she always wants attention. He/she has a greater tendency of playing with imaginary friends. He/she has difficulty socialising. He/she is more prone to get sick.
  • 1. An only child may grow up lonely. 2. An only child has no one to grow up with. 3. An only child may get too much pressure from parents, to perform well or excel in school and other activities 4. The parents of an only child tend to be overprotective. 5. An only child may get bored of parental involvement 6. An only child may have a harder time making friends. 7. An only child may be pressure to have children in order to carry on the family name. 8. An only child may become burdened about being the sole caregivers of elderly parents. 9. An only child will never have the experience of having nephews and nieces.
  • they are able to give more to their child in terms of material things as well as their love and attention.
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  • Parents of only children get strange looks or rude remarks from people when they say they have only one child. Family and friends tend to pressure them to have more children. Parents of only children sometimes feel guilty for not giving their child a sibling. Parents of only children are worried about their child being alone after they die.
Karlee Verhaagh

What Are the Disadvantages of Mainstreaming Disabled Children in Regular Classrooms? | ... - 0 views

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  • placing children with special needs in regular classes. The hope is that this practice will improve the child's self-esteem and boost academic achievement while still providing special attention from educators. However, some argue that the disadvantages of mainstreaming outweigh the benefits.
  • including a child with disabilities in a regular classroom will slow other children in the classroom to his pace of learning. Properly challenging non-disabled children while helping a disabled peer in the same classroom may turn out to be too difficult for a teacher to manage.
  • Because disabled students often have social difficulties, they may end up as outcasts in the classroom and become more isolated than before they were mainstreamed. They may end up as targets of bullying, which may cause a regression in learning ability.
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  • Some also worry that disabled students will feel inadequate or inferior if placed in a learning environment next to their non-disabled peers. The child may feel different and alone, making it even more difficult to concentrate on work. Opponents feel that mainstreaming, intended to help boost children's self-esteem, will do the opposite.
  • Some argue that educators will have to spend more time on the disabled student in regular classrooms, neglecting the other students in the class who are not disabled. Also, many teachers don't have the training to equip them to deal with those with special needs, and they may give these students inadequate education or become frustrated at their slow pace of learning.
  • schools would need to spend extra money on training teachers to teach both a regular class and assist special needs students. Many schools are already strapped for funding, and those who are opposed to mainstreaming argue that saddling the budget with special training for many teachers is unnecessary and that better and cheaper alternatives exist.
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  • According to the AP, the problems were seen in a study of 60 children randomly assigned to either watch "SpongeBob," or the slower-paced PBS cartoon "Caillou" or assigned to draw pictures. Immediately after these nine-minute assignments, the kids took mental function tests. Those who had watched "SpongeBob" did measurably worse than the others.
  • "Although the study is limited due to its choice of a non-diverse population, no pre-testing of its subjects and a small sample size (60), it certainly raises red flags that parents need to be very diligent as to what their children are watching and when," Creighton said. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends no TV under the age of 2 and less than two hours per day of total media time (which includes computers, DS games, video games, and movies) for children older than two, Creighton said. "These recommendations seem reasonable, but very hard to enforce in a multiple-child household."
  • Cristine Zawatson, principal at the Blackheath Road Pre-Kindergarten Center in Long Beach, agrees television shows such as "SpongeBob" are not age-appropriate for pre-K children. "Children look at the characters on TV as role models, and we have to make sure we monitor what they're watching," Zawatson said. Before you let your child watch something, watch it first, she suggests. "Peruse a program and make sure it's age-appropriate for your child," Zawatson said.
Austin Gerads

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  • In 1996, 140 children died after being accidentally shot; in 2012 the figure was 259 with comparable numbers in between. About 1,500 children are hurt by guns every year. "Trigger Locks" require entering a combination to use the gun (or some other locking method); they are intended to reduce inadvertent use by children or other unauthorized users.
Abby Mokhtary

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  • "least restrictive environment" mandated by the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975 (Public Law 94-142; now the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act).
Billie Jo Czeck

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  • Usually the child feels a comparable obligation to do right by the parents. This is not a laid back family because everyone is trying extremely hard to do their best by each other.
  • They expect the child to turn out well. As one parent once memorably told me: "No one who has an only child is content to have an average child, or at least to believe they do." In response, only children tend to want to perform well for their parents.
  • From what I have seen, only children tend to be powerfully parented. Well attached to parents and well nurtured by them, the only child receives a lot of parental attention, affection, acceptance, and approval
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  • Toni Falbo, at the University of Texas, reports about only children - they tend to develop high self-esteem. Well thought of by parents, they think well of themselves.
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  • el socially self-conscious, and value privacy, from growing up being the sole focus of unrelenting parental scrutiny;To be sensitive to disapproval and be self-critical when evelvated standards of conduct and performance are not met;To like social attention from being the center of family attention at home;To be emotionally sensitive from being used to the emotionally sensitive and sensitized relationship with parents;To prefer order and constancy to surprise and change from parents who often organize family life based on planning and predictability;To prefer the company of a "family" of a few close friends to being a social butterfly, from being used to the close and satisfying companionship of parents;To be strong-willed (stubborn and persistent) from being given to and being given into from parents who want to support and empower the child when they responsibly can;
  • To be deeply knowing of parents from the family intimacy they have shared, their good sides and not so goodl;To feel strongly attached to parents, often carrying a sense of obligation and responsibility for their care;To be uncomfortable with conflict from not having the rough and tumble, push and shove competition with siblings, or much serious disharmony with parents;To have a strong sense of what is "right" and "wrong" from closely identifying with parental standards and values;To be ambitious to achieve from wanting to live up to parental expectations and to invest in themselves to do well for themselves;To be as seriousy responsible and conscientious and careful as the parents who, in their parenting, have been that way with the child;To be possessive of significant belongings (from not having to share) but also possessive of sufficient space and time alone for themselves;To have a low susceptibility to peer pressure from being highly commited to self-interest;To have and pursue a strong sense of personal agenda for themselves and be independent in that way;To be obedient to social authority from the mattering of parental approval and from learning early ho
  • w to get on well with adults;To be dependent on parents for their emotional support, and also being dependable for parents to rely on;To be prone to stress from self-imposed pressure for right conduct, responsible behavior, and high accomplishment, not being relaxed and laid back on that account;To be high controlling from being anxious about making mistakes and not measuring up to high performance standards she or he has set.To be reluctant to share joint decision-making in relationships where the outcome could effect his or her well being;To know how to be content with his or her own company from spending a lot of time in the family alone.To be comfortable communicating with adults from learning how to socialize on adult terms with parents and parental friends.To have a sense of future from parental concerns for the future of their only child, a sense that keeps
  • growth directed through the immediate temptations and multi
  • ple distractions of adolescence.
  • Because adolescence involves separation from parents, opposition to parents, and differentiation from parents, these developmental changes can be quite painful for a highly attached only child to do. Also, with conditions of childhood so comfortable at home, the only child can be reluctant to alter them.
bonnievouk

"SpongeBob" hinders kids' minds, quickly: study - CBS News - 0 views

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  • Most kids were white and from middle-class or wealthy families. They were given common mental function tests after watching cartoons or drawing. The SpongeBob kids scored on average 12 points lower than the other two groups, whose scores were nearly identical.
  • In another test, measuring self-control and impulsiveness, kids were rated on how long they could wait before eating snacks presented when the researcher left the room. "SpongeBob" kids waited about 2 1/2 minutes on average, versus at least four minutes for the other two groups.
  • "The recommendation from the American Academy of Pediatrics," Levine noted, "is that children under two watch no television at all, and for children older than two, you want to limit their combined media use, which includes computers and video games, to two hours a day. And we also want to be careful about the type of programming our children are watching. It's not just the quantity, but the type, too."
Cortney Kostreba

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  • Improving child nutrition is the focal point of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010. The legislation authorizes funding and sets policy for USDA's core child nutrition programs: the National School Lunch Program, the School Breakfast Program, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC), the Summer Food Service Program, and the Child and Adult Care Food Program. The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act allows USDA, for the first time in over 30 years, opportunity to make real reforms to the school lunch and breakfast programs by improving the critical nutrition and hunger safety net for millions of children.
Abria Stewart

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  • According to the Department of Agriculture, families with an average income between roughly $57,000 and $98,000 will spend a little over $286,000 to rear one child from birth through age seventeen-college not included
  • Lacking siblings, only children want to be included and well liked.
  • Children with siblings often have more "who is the boss" difficulties because they are forced to share toys and other possessions, television time, and parents.
Abby Mokhtary

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