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According to the article “But I’m Not Tired,” by Alice Parker, the article states “Many kids ages 10 to 12 years old only get 7 - 8 hours of sleep.” Schools need to adapt their start time and end time. Schools also need to adapt after school activities. Class time should be at least 40 to 50 minutes long. Studies have show that 7 hours of sleep is minimum requirement hours of sleep per night. Studies have also shown that 46% of nights, students sleep less than 7 hours. Studies also have shown that sleep is vital to humans well-being, as important than the air humans breathe.

He said child development is described as a series of 'psychosexual stages. Freud outlined these stages as oral, anal, phallic, latency and genital. Each stage involves the satisfaction of a libidinal desire and can later play a role in adult personality. If a child does not successfully complete a stage, Freud suggested that he or she would develop a fixation that would later influence adult personality and behavior.

Freud suggests that both boys and girls are significantly attached to their mothers in the pre-Oedipal stage. He does not give this stage much importance. Then, as children grow into the Oedipal stage, they discover their main differences; their genitals. This spurs penis envy in the girls as they realize they are lacking some impressive equipment. The boy seeing the girl’s lack of a penis think that the girl used to have one and got it cut off as a punishment for something. This prompts the boy’s fear of castration. At this point, the children see their opposite sex parent as their love interest. The boy see the father as competition for the mother’s love and the girls see the mother as competition for the father’s love. The boy stifles pursuit of the mother in fear of being punished by castration. The girl hopes that the father will give her a penis if she loves him well enough. Freud never gives the girl a reason to fear the mother and cease her pursuit of the

Psychoanalytic theories describe development as primarily unconscious and heavily colored by emotion. Psychoanalytic theorists emphasize that behavior is merely a surface characteristic and that true understanding of development requires analyzing the symbolic meanings of behavior and the deep inner workings of the mind. They also stress that the experiences children have with their parents earlier on in life shape development. The psychoanalytic theory highlighted by Sigmund Freud who was born in 1856 and died in 1939. As he listened to and examine his parents he was influenced they were the result of experiences early in life. He thought that as children grow up, their focus of pleasure and sexual impulses shifts from the mouth to the anus and eventually to the genitals. As a result, we go through five stages of psychosexual development: oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital. The oral stage is when the infant’s pleasure centers on the mouth, the anal stage is when

More specifically, Freud traces the roots of all adult behaviors back to childhood impulses and showed how conflicts related to the development of sexuality in childhood subsequently results in psychopathology or neuroses. (Good & Beitman)

The age range I have chosen is 3-7 yrs and I will discuss intellectual development. The main stages of intellectual development as defined by Jean Piaget for children aged 3-7 yrs are classified under the “Preoperational Stage” the second stage of four in his cognitive development theory. Piaget states that children between the ages of 3-7 yrs continue to explore their environment and develop their thinking from their experience. They use mental imagery and begin to represent their thinking symbolically through language and the symbolic use of objects, such as using a doll to represent a baby. They tend

This is the first time that research has found evidence that tissue in this region of the brain, called fusiform gyrus, increases in size from childhood to adulthood. Previous research suggested that most changes in brain tissue occurred during childhood (0-2 years) and involved either synaptic pruning or tissue shrinkage. To make the discovery, which will force science to rethink the anatomical development of the brain over the years, researchers recruited 22 children (aged 5-12) and 25 adults. They were subjected to visual recognition tests of faces and places and functional magnetic resonance and quantitative magnetic resonance imaging tests.

The importance of child-parent attachment in Freud 's theory of personality is best captured in his characterization of the infant-mother relationship (Richters & Waters 1991, Brogaard 2015). Freud (as explained by Richters & Waters 1991) described socialization as the process through which a child 's natural erotic and aggressive instincts are gradually brought under the control of the superego. Freud believed that children identify with the superegos as well as the situational behaviors of their parents (Richters & Waters 1991). Identification process, according to Freud, is rooted in the child 's initial total dependence on

we're born with this idea that we're the center of the universe, we think everything responds to us. There's pervasiveness to it, a sense that the world serves you, and kids behave accordingly … Small children, by their very nature, are moral monsters. They're greedy, demanding, violent, destructive, selfish, impulsive and utterly remorseless. They fight with playmates and siblings constantly, biting, hitting and kicking at will, but screaming in pain and indignation if they're attacked in return. They expect to be adored but not disciplined, rewarded but never penalized, cared for and served by parents and family without caring or serving reciprocally … Sigmund Freud wrote that the earliest stage of a baby's life is defined by what he called ''primary narcissism'', which concords with Kluger's theory. He also writes that ''lack of empathy is easily the most important of these disagreeable traits, and in many ways is the hardest for babies to overcome''. (21, 27).

The human brain is ninety-five percent of its adult size at age six, but the myth of the first three years can be proven false by the constant developing of the grey matter in the front cortex throughout one’s life especially through their teenage years, which is why the experiences the brain is exposed to is crucial long past those early years. This grey matter “the thinking part of the brain continues to thicken throughout childhood as the brain cells grow extra connections like a tree growing extra branches, twigs, and ruts” according to Dr. Jay Giedd who works at the National Institute of Mental Health. In PBS Frontline’s video informational video on the teenage brain describes how the parts of the brain that are not used after “the flurry

Freud created five stages of psychosexual development that includes the oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital phases. The oral stage begins at birth and lasts until approximately age one. Throughout the first phase, Freud believed that, the sex instinct was centered on the mouth. Often infants derive pleasure from oral activities such as chewing, sucking, biting, or feeding activities. Moreover, Freud thought that if a child was weaned off the mother’s breast too early their adult personality characteristics might crave close contact and become an overly dependent spouse

At the time of peak height velocity–the time at which the adolescent is growing most rapidly–he or she is growing at the same rate as a toddler. For boys, peak height velocity averages about 4 inches per year; for girls, it’s about 3.5 inches.

A newborns brain growth is rapid and their growth and development reflects their experiences and social relationships (Berger,2014). From two weeks after conception until two weeks after birth the brain grows more rapidly than any other organ in the body (Berger,2014). We will now examine what biologically takes place inside the brain of an infant to better try to understand why development at this stage is so crucial. A newborns brain has billions of neurons, that are located in the portion of the brain called the Cortex, and they regulate and control thought, feeling, and sensation (Berger, 2014). In addition, research has found that children younger than

It is normally thought that gender is something that is developed at birth and is something that is set in stone. More recently in time, people have started to express that they feel that their gender identity is different and separate from their sex at birth. Egan and Perry are considered very important researchers in the field of gender identity and psychology. The two proposed that gender identity is multi-faceted and is made up of five different components that are generally independent of one another. The categories are as follows: knowing one belongs to one gender or another, how much they feel they belong to the category, how happy they are with that gender, how much pressure they feel to conform to gender stereotypes and how much they feel their sex is superior to the opposite (Carver, Yunger & Perry, 2003, p. 95). All of these relate to adjustment in different senses. Egan and Perry found that by middle childhood, most have a fairly stable idea of their standing on all of these categories. Their perception thrives most when they are confident in themselves and when they feel that they are not constricted in their freedom to explore other

Gender also refers to the socially constructed norms and values, roles and relations that are considered appropriate for men