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¶ … children conditioned to create images to please the adult aesthetic, which consequently inhibits their own intrinsic creativity? What impact does this have on our culture? What is your opinion of coloring books?
One possible response to coloring books is that these prefabricated images inhibit children's creativity by forcing children to keep within the lines. However, it is equally possible to inhibit children's creativity by telling children that they have to paint or draw in a particular fashion and other ways are 'wrong.' Furthermore, some artistic training can be helpful in awakening a child's creativity. Teach a child the basics of sketching, working with clay, weaving, or other techniques that are not natural to the child, and the child can become more truly and deeply creative within the discipline of that branch of art.
Sometimes, without prompting, children can fall into thinking in cliches -- cliches are everywhere, cliches are what we consider 'culture.' That is why, when prompted to be creative, children may reproduce cartoons or stock images. Even though these images may not please adults, this is hardly creative. The idea of the naturally creative child is often belied by children who copy their friends' artwork, or the never-ending stream of puppies and Christmas trees in children's drawings. No one exists outside of culture, and it is a difficult thing to be a true nonconformist in art, whether one is a child or an adult.
To truly tap into a deeper wellspring of creativity requires a child to feel as if he or she has a free space to imagine, without the pressures of creating art as it 'should' be done. Encouraging children to draw a 'house that looks like a hat' or asking children to color in a picture of a strawberry in 'every color but red' is one way to urge children to avoid their desire to conform to adult expectations, to do what their friends or doing, or to indulge in the satisfying predictability of routine.
It is less the desire to please adults, or even the pressures of adult assignments that inhibits children: children like routine; they often like the same bedtime story, cartoons, and food. Adults must show warmth and trustworthiness so children will feel they can take risks in art, whether that means risking making a mistake in clay, or coloring in a person's face with a purple crayon.
Children and Media Technology surrounds everything that children participate in nowadays. From using computers to watching television, the media influences children in just about every activity that they are a part of. The mainstream and social media have had a great impact on the behavior of children, as they are consistently exposed to numerous forms of the media at all times. As technology advances and children are more and more prone
Gradually, there are lesser desired adoptive kids as society have come to accept single mother who parent their children compared to earlier. The disgrace of giving birth to a child outside marriage has lowered and hence, the bulk of single moms prefer to have their kids with them in place of "relinquishing them" for being adopted. Besides, thanks to advanced technology, "birth control" pills are instantly accessible to the
Figure 1 portrays three of the scenes 20/20 presented March 15, 2010. Figure 1: Heather, Rachel, and Unnamed Girl in 20/20 Program (adapted from Stossel, 2010). Statement of the Problem For any individual, the death of a family member, friend, parent or sibling may often be overwhelming. For adolescents, the death of person close to them may prove much more traumatic as it can disrupt adolescent development. Diana Mahoney (2008), with the
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The model of the "social structural child" sees the childhood as a social system comparable to the other social categories. Though, the childhood system is different from the others and even marginalized, fact well pointed out in the "minority group child" model. The model of the "tribal child" is more concentrated on the children's world, which is considered to have its own separate culture. The "socially constructed child" model
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