CONCERNED PARENT As a parent of an eleven year old student who is now preparing to write the examination for entry into secondary school‚ I would like to share with you my views on the issue of extra lessons. Your school offers extra lessons on five evenings of the week and half day on Saturday. I think this is outrageous. Do you believe hat there is a real need to give extra lessons? Do you believe that after children have been subject to whole day’s teaching‚ they are mentally alert to
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A 21st century kid is diffrent from the old days. "Children today have a lifestyle not childhood." CUROSITY. A 21st century kid‚ in my perception has high CURIOSITY level. From what kids are from the past -who too‚ are curious of what is this? and what is that?- comes an improved level today‚ where kids are eager to learn MORE than what is written or what the older people tells them. And this curiousity they have leads them to explore new things specially today‚ where everything is just a click
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Parent Interview INTRODUCTION: I interviewed a woman who has given birth within the past year so that I can relate the things I am learning in the classroom back to real life scenarios. Throughout the interview I hope to obtain enough knowledge to be able to understand the birthing process a lot better. I hope that I will be able to know more about how real life situations when it comes to having a new baby in the house. I also hope to be able to understand what it is like for a mother to see their
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21st Century Kids Grand Canyon University: EDU 576 MAY 22‚ 2012 I live in Shanghai‚ China and sometimes experience a barrier with communication since I do not speak any Chinese. I went to a place where I knew quite a few expat kids hang out‚ so I could understand what was being said back and forth. I chose to go to an indoor playground that I take my son to sometimes‚ called Adventurezone. Here I had a chance to observe the communication styles‚ social behaviors‚ topics of discussion‚ verbiage
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Should Parents Be Responsible for Their Children’s Actions? Adam Simonitch 2nd Period Tommy‚ of age 16‚ steals a new pair of headphones from the store‚ he gets caught‚ and his parents get a fine later on that month for Tommy’s crime. Tommy gets punished by his parents‚ nothing that hasn’t happened before. But Tommy never felt the sting of the actual law‚ what’s keeping Tommy of 17 from stealing another item off of the shelf? Letting parents take responsibility for their children’s actions would
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Smart Kids” Carol S. Dweck (2015) Claims that a way to raise smart kids; it to make them focus instead of telling them they have talent or a gift; for this makes them develop a different mindset that could hinder their learning ability and eventually make them more susceptible to failure. Carol S. Dweck is a psychology graduate from Yale university‚ and she has been researching the effect of different mindsets in children to find a way to raise smarter kids. In the article she explains that kids that
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Discuss the techniques used to convince the reader to adopt a particular way of thinking about text one and text two? The feature article‚ “the Overprotected kid” written by Hannah Rosin published in the Atlantic uses the techniques of Descriptive language‚ anecdote and factual evidence to persuade the reader to adopt a particular way of thinking. The feature article poses the theory that children of the 21st century are missing out on childhood development and experiences due to the increasing overprotection
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between parents and kids can harm their relationships with each other. Many parents don’t realize that their relationship with their kids is really important‚ especially strict parents. Strict parents believe in tough love but that can really harm the relationship between their children and them. This allows kids with strict parents to believe that family can hurt us as much as a stranger can. Both the article Are strict Chinese mothers the best? and Study:’Tiger Parenting’ Tough on Kids talks about
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problem - a roller bag. He is able to get to school fast‚ but there are a few dangers between home and school‚ such as an angry neighbour who’s front lawn got ripped up as a result of a game Greg and Rowley played last winter and woods full of the Mingo kids‚ who are like wild animals. Mom notices Greg and Rowley have stopped hanging out and gives Greg some advice. Greg‚ after reading a hundred editions of Slumber Party Pals‚ he realizes that girl friendships and boy friendships are different. He then
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Should parents be obliged to immunise their children against childhood diseases? Or do individuals have the right to choose not to immunise their children? http://just-ielts.blogspot.com Some people argue that the state does not have the right to make parents immunise their children. However‚ I feel the question is not whether they should immunise but whether‚ as members of society‚ they have the right not to. Preventative medicine has proved to be the most effective way of reducing the
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