...regardless of their race, religion or abilities. Since being adopted by the United Nations in november 1989, the CRC has received 194 ratifications with only two countries still to ratify. This means that they have agreed to do everything they can to make the rights a reality for children around the world. All signatories are bound to the UNCRC by international law, and its implementation is monitored by the Committee on the Rights of the Child. Under the terms of the convention, states are required to meet the basic needs of children and help them to reach their full potential. Central to this is the acknowledgement that every child has basic fundamental rights. These include: The right to life The right to his or her own name and identity The right to be protected from abuse or exploitation The right to an education The right to having their privacy protected The be raised by, or have relationship with, their parents The right to express their opinions and have these listened to and, where appropriate, acted upon The right to play and enjoy culture and art in safety On 25th May 2000, two optional protocols were added to the UNCRC. the first of these asks the governments to ensure that children under the age of 18 are not forcibly recruited into the arm forces. It also requires governments to do everything that they can to make sure that members of their armed forces who are under the age of 18 do not take part in combat. The second of these protocols calls on states...
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...without a male student wanting to teach in the elementary level. My own ideas and questions began to bother me: were men just scared of teaching such a young group of students? Did men think that they were too good to teach in elementary? What was their reason for not wanting to teach at elementary level? Were women just better candidates to teach at this level? I knew that there had to be specific reasons why the populations of men in elementary school have been and continue to be low. In fact, I had to think about my own biases as to why men were not teaching in elementary. When I started this research paper and read the various articles about why men choose not to teach, I found that more often than not, it was because of other people thinking that men were not the best candidates for teaching in elementary than men simply choosing not to work. Society’s ideas about men teaching in elementary, then, are the big reasons why men are not teaching in elementary school. Society’s thinking that male teachers are not real men, parents’ suspicion of male teachers, and society insistence to men that secondary school is a more acceptable area for men to teach are the main reasons that there are not many male teachers in elementary school. Historically, society has determined what job is best for a specific gender. Society tells people what is acceptable to do based on their gender. Even though job expectations based on whether a person is a man or a woman are decreasing, these ideas...
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...them including communication and problem solving. The skills I have developed throughout my placements are communicating with others in the workplace including the staff and service users, I also feel that I have plenty of experience caring and looking after young children from my placements and at home. From experiences I feel I have good initiative and can make quick decisions when needed to do so. I feel that I have the respect to support the patients and the surrounding family and make sure that their beliefs and what their values are taken into consideration. I also feel that I have the maturity to deal with difficult situations when put into my hands due to being on placement and having a part time job as a bar tender, where sometimes you need these skills and knowledge to deal with situations when things get difficult in the workplace and you can come across challenging individuals. As having a lot of young children in my family this has reinforced my passion for working with young children, also nursing is a life-long learning career, I enjoy learning new things and this is why I would like to get into this profession. I am a caring person and the influences of my part time job as being a bar tender I find it easier to interact with new people, I think this is an important quality as working in any care profession you meet...
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...people’s lives For many people, caring is a valued source of self-esteem and social legitimacy [Chant 2002; Molyneux 2007 cited by Esplen, 2009], rather than an injustice. But for others – particularly the poorest people – the time, effort and other resources used in providing care can violate their right to health and undermine their quality of life and well-being. There may be particular points during the life cycle or particular circumstances which markedly increase the care workload [Esplen, 2009]. For example, the impacts of providing care may be felt most intensely in households caring for young children, frail older people, or people with chronic illnesses or disabilities. Impacts are also severe in contexts of declining agricultural productivity and food insecurity, or conflict and disaster – where women and children have to travel greater distances to find water and fuel, for example [Esplen,...
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...youth in the Southeast Texas region. The program will form partnerships with local school districts, churches, shelters and the juvenile court system. Be Great is a program that is in direct response to the growing number of young people that are either falling through the cracks at school or are already entangled with the juvenile court system. The goal of the program is to identify youth who are having major difficulties throughout the middle and mainly high school years. Be Great is geared towards being a positive support system for the youth so that any pitfall or distraction may be avoided while on their journey to adulthood....
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...Interviews First off, after asking people about their thoughts on bullying, and what might be done to stop it from occurring for children, most of them came to the same conclusion, we as a whole have to teach our children from the beginning that treating others with kindness and caring is the right thing to do. This will aid in their becoming future adults who continue to teach the next children the same wisdom. The first person interviewed was asked what they think is a good way to help teach children not to bully others. He said it must first start within the family is important especially if there are siblings as he had. The parents and other adult family members need to teach how they all live together and teach that each person is an individual and has feelings. His parents taught that because they all needed to pull together and a unit that bulling each other was not acceptable. The siblings could not interact and play with each other, and had activities with the family taken away as well. Reasoning, if you cannot be kind and get along then you have to sit it out and be by yourself. His parents also tried to explain the importance of not hurting others to get your own way and that working together in play or life is a better idea. Having talked to a few friends and co-workers the answers were mostly the same. Families need to let the children know from a young age that being a bossy person or hostel hurtful person is not the way to act. People need to be raised to treat others...
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...Content Review Week Five Ernestine Brodie Walden University In Chapter 3 of your course text, Ramsey states: "In short, caring is a powerful emotion that energizes concern for ourselves and others and our willingness to confront and change inequities. Thus, it is an essential component of multicultural education" (Ramsey, 2004, p. 44). Drawing on what you have learned in this course and particularly this week, explain why this statement is true, citing the Learning Resources to support your ideas. “In Short, caring is a powerful emotion that energizes concern for ourselves and others and our willingness to confront and change inequities. Thus, it is an essential component of multicultural education” (Ramsey, 2015,...
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...after children and young people P2: Outline the arrangements for providing quality care for looked after children and young people There are various types of quality care provided for looked after children and young people such as; foster care, residential care, adoption, respite care and temporary/ permanent care, of which can occur due to a care order being put into place. Planning for care in partnership with the child/ young person, parents and other agencies: It is in the child's best interests that any and all care provisions are established and organised whenever possible in a mutually accepted way. In some instances, the parents or family of the child have asked for support and help to be provided, possibly on a short term basis. The chances of the outcome being successful can be increased when all participating parties can come to an agreement on the partnership arrangements for the mutual care and support of the child. Type of Care/ Provision | Characteristics | Foster Care | Foster care is supervised care, which is when a child is looked after by other people who are not members of their own family. Foster care is usually short –term, however it can become long-term depending on the situation and the child's own individual needs; this is provided for children and young people who have been neglected or are unable to live with their parents/ families.This provision provides children and young people with a stable, secure, safe, loving and caring environment...
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...Ethics of Marketing to Children During the early 1990’s, Americans witnessed a dramatic increase in marketing centered on children. Today, many “latchkey” children are left unattended to watch television on their free time. According to the U.S. Census, one third of American school aged children are left alone at home either before school, after school and at night (2010 Census). These children watch an average of 25,000 to 40,000 commercials a year (Global Issues). Marketing to children should be a concern to advertisers and consumers as these children may not understand the messages in commercials. Children have restricted abilities that make it difficult for them to comprehend the reliability and accuracy of the data they obtain. Knowing this, advertisers should be aware that many children today are imaginative and that companies should not portray their products by using advertising in a way that children would not be able to see the difference between the actual and imaginary features of the products. The most important stakeholders that are affected by this marketing practice are the parents and their kids. Parents of “latchkey” children have more affluence and they are easier to influence than children. Often parents have the desire to satisfy their children’s wants and needs by the purchase of items. Also, parents make purchase decisions that are influenced by their children or their constant begging for a product they want. The buying power of children has increased exponentially...
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...Women in Okonkwo’s Life Okonkwo is considered the picture of masculinity. He has two barns full of yams, three wives, and is known throughout the village for defeating the undefeated Amalize the Cat in wrestling. He did not start out this great, for his father was lazy and improvident. He was unwilling to help while his loving mother had died when Okonkwo was young. In the book Things’ Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Okonkwo is a man determined to be strong, powerful, influential, courageous, hard-working, and able to provide for his family; everything his father was not, and somewhat of what his mother was like. The role of women in Okonkwo’s life seemed to be an unimportant role, but in reality, it is the key factor in running his life. Women’s role in Okonkwo’s life is huge, for his mother’s influence was able to get him a home to stay. His wives role in child bearing allows him to have children. His wives caring for the family run the household. Although Okonkwo has a rough exterior, inside he is a man determined to never be what his father was like. In his village of Umofia, Okonkwo is banished for seven years after accidentally shooting a boy, so customs stated that he pack up and leave, along with his family. Okonkwo, with nowhere else to go, went to his mother’s old village. The book states “It was a crime against the earth goddess to kill a clansman, and a man who committed it must flee from the land…Okonkwo was well received by his mother’s kinsman…” This means it is...
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...One of the main ways to support self-confidence and self-esteem is to cultivate positive relationships with children and young people. As I will be working with children and young people I can help to support their development of self-confidence and self-esteem in many different ways including: • Listen with respect and interest • Allow them to express their own feelings • Increasing a child’s confidence • Include them in decision-making • Provide consistent boundaries It is important for me to support children’s self-confidence and self-esteem because it helps them grow into confident adults. Supporting self-confidence and self-esteem is very important in teaching children and young people to look out for themselves and make positive decisions...
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...Q35 (10.1) Explain the importance of building children and young people’s resilience, self-confidence and self-esteem It is important for staff to convey confidence and aspiration as this will help to instil confidence and self-belief into the young person. This will enable the young person to go for opportunities in life and feel motivated to make positive decisions. A young person being spoken to and treated in a positive uplifting manner by staff members will also make them feel respected and valued. In our mother and baby unit we regularly praise the mums on how they are coping to instil confidence and help them to believe that they will be able to cope positively when they move into independent living with their baby. Also, whilst observing in our unit, the support workers will reduce support being given in some cases...
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...priorities. We are now living in the I-Generation. Where looking pretty and uploading selfies has become the norm. Where children are losing their youth in order to get attention and feel important. Psychologists Dr. Jean Twenge and Sigmund Freud explore and researches the younger generations. Being a narcissist’s means that you are self-centered, and it is the pursuit of gratification from vanity, or selfish admiration of one's own attributes, that derive from arrogant pride. The term comes from a Greek myth of Narcissus. Narcissus was a handsome young man who saw his own reflection in a puddle of water and became obsessed with his own reflection. One of the many psychologists that studied this idea was Sigmund Freud. In 1914, Freud published a writing on his findings on the Narcissistic personality disorder. Freud says that the narcissistic attitude is actually a norm for people, it is part of the human experience. However, it is created into an ego through the experiences of infancy and young childhood. I agree with him on this. I feel that the self-centered part of a person doesn’t kick in until about the teenage years, or maybe even earlier. The younger generations have so much that the other generations did not get to have. For example, the have social media. Instagram, which is an app that generates self-centeredness, is entertained by many young kids. I see it every day, kids in their early teenage years are more worried about the pictures that they will post, the...
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...expression to young children are just tried and true methods of interacting with other people, making them feel good about themselves and at ease with you. This, in turn, makes you feel confident and good about you. Because of this they can show caring and respect for others through good manners. Children are the future, what we teach in children becomes the present day. You teach young children to be polite and expression of kindness because they will become the pillar of the community, Congress men, police officers, doctors, nurses, teachers and even presidents. Young children can practice the proper introduction and polite expressions like saying Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, saying sorry, thank you, excuse me, please, you’re welcome and others with their parents and to be good children. It’s worth putting in some effort to teaching manners because if kids have good manners, adults will be nicer to them, they will know how to speak and be respectful to others and you can send them off into the world knowing that they will know how to behave in different social situations. So with that in mind we have rounded up lots of good books, apps, videos and cards that will help us to teach the young children with the manners that they need to know. If they are grow up already knowing the proper introduction and polite expression they will be a good children in the future. These beautiful little simple lessons are easy little tidbits of manners children and adults will...
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...have attracted my interest for a long time now. I initially became interested in these topics when carrying out work experience with children with special needs at a children’s charity and when studying sociology and psychology. My work experience at a children’s charity the Children’s Adventure Farm Trust was extremely rewarding and my enthusiasm provided not only myself with confidence but also provided the children for whom I was caring for with confidence. I worked with children of a variety of ages across a broad range of learning and behavioural needs. A lot of the children I worked with had autism, which I had studied in psychology and found it to be really fascinating. Working with these disadvantaged children was certainly rewarding. The skills I gained from my work experience will be extremely beneficial in my future career. I was enlighten by the experience I gained from working at the children’s charity and believe it to be a main influence in what I hope to study at university. My skills are best shown when working alongside and supporting others but I can also work independently very effectively. Enthusiasm and commitment, which are my strengths, can be applicable for any occupation especially when working with vulnerable people. The most important attribute when working with underprivileged children is to be caring; caring for people is a trait I find easy to excel in. I am currently studying sociology, psychology, and dance. I also studied performance studies...
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