Obesity

Obesity

This relates to class because it talks about our health. And how to take care of it, many people are obese because they have eating habits. This teaches us how risky it can be to go overweight. Obesity is made out of excessive body fat, obesity's risks are cardiovascular diseases, diabetes mellitus type 2, and obstructive sleep apnea. 

Obesity is a medical condition in which excess body fat has accumulated to the extent that it may have a negative effect on health, leading to reduced life expectancy and/or increased health problems. People are considered obese when their body mass index(BMI), a measurement obtained by dividing a person's weight by the square of the person's height, exceeds 30 kg/m².

This article shows us about obesity health-care costs at risk. It analysis that Canadians have more obesity




Video: Obesity in America has reached a crisis point. Two out of every three Americans are overweight, one out of every three is obese. One in three are expected to have diabetes by 2050.
Minorities have been even more profoundly affected. African-Americans have a 50 per cent higher prevalence of obesity and Hispanics 25 per cent higher when compared with whites.
How did the situation get so out of hand?

Natural childbirth

Natural childbirth

Natural childbirth teaches us on how some mothers choose to do natural childbirth. Sometimes natural childbirth happens at home. It really doesn't teach us a lot.

Natural childbirth: is a philosophy of childbirth that is based on the belief that women who are adequately prepared are innately able to give birth without routine medical interventions. Natural childbirth arose in opposition to the techno-medical model of childbirth that has recently gained popularity in industrialized societies, and is a childbirth philosophy that attempts to minimize medical intervention, particularly the use of anesthetic medications and surgical interventions such as episiotomies, forceps and ventouse deliveries and caesarean sections.



This picture shows a woman giving natural childbirth at home. It also shows he husband helping her with the birth, childbirth can be used in hospitals, in birthing centers with certified-nurse midwife, or at home with a doula.


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Love Withdrawal

Love Withdrawal 

It teaches us on threatening to remove love, or even temporarily from the caregiver and child relationship. According to Maslow's Theory of Human Needs, all people need to feel loved in order to reach optimal development and self-actualization. When caregivers threaten to take away love, they cause stress and instability within a child. Love withdrawal can send the wrong message that love is unsteady and can be used as a power tool. 

Love Withdrawal: Often used by parents, the love withdrawal technique wagers their love and attention over the chance of misbehaving.

This article shows us the four styles and their effects in love withdrawal. 

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Kohlberg, Lawrence

Lawrence Kohlberg

Lawrence Kohlberg teaches us about the three different levels of thinking that people go through in making a moral decision. The first level, people make decisions based on whether or not they will be punished or rewarded. Second level, people's moral decisions are motivated by laws and how they might be perceived. In the third level, some teens and many adults make moral decisions based on principles such as justice.

Lawrence Kohlberg (October 25, 1927 – January 19, 1987) was an American psychologist best known for his theory of stages of moral development.

This shows us an article about Lawrence and how everything started, it gives us a little more about his life. It helps us explain why did he do this theory. Helps us understand more on what he was trying to do and how he tested on the children, teenagers and adults. It also tells us about the three different levels of Kohlberg's Theory.

This video is showing you how the theory works. How he did it on the children, it shows articles and other stuff. 

Mainstreaming

Mainstreaming 

Mainstreaming relates to class, because there's children that are mainstreaming. They have special needs who show the ability to keep up with the curriculum into regular classrooms. Inclusion is a term used to describe the placement of special needs students into a regular classroom despite their inability to keep up academically. Inclusion focuses on the needs of the whole child.

Mainstreaming: in the context of education, is the practice of educating students with special needs in regular classes during specific time periods based on their skills. This means regular education classes are combined with special education classes.

The picture above shows mainstreaming, one of the three children shown in the picture has inclusion. One of these student was put into this regular classroom despite his/her inability to keep up academically. Not these three children are exactly alike. They way they learn, their natural abilities, and experiences are unique. 

Mainstreaming

Quality child Care

Child care is a place where adults are there to take care of your children/child , Treat them like kids of their own . There are different types of child care . (Ex: in-home child care, family child care, center-based child care, and school-age child care.)
In-Home child care is when children are in a familiar , comfortable setting. (Nannies for example)
Family child care is when fewer children in care allows more individual attention and less chance of catching and spreading illnesses and are licensed.
Center-based child care is when centers are licensed by the state , and center-based care may offer more socializing opportunities for children.
School-age child care is when they help children with homework, and offer tutoring. Help develop interest and goals, prevent more safety concerns for children in self-care.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_L9waEicB8  ... Video is explaining what child care means, and parents making sure their child/children are in a safe environment when they are not around.

Percentage distribution of children at about 4 years of age, by primary type of child care arrangement and selected characteristics: 2005–06
Characteristic	No regular no parental arrangement	Home-based care		Center-based care1
		Relative care2	Non-relative care3	Total	Head Start	Other than Head Start
Total	20.0	13.1	7.6	57.4	12.6	44.8
Sex of child
Male	19.3	13.1	7.5	58.0	12.9	45.1
Female	20.7	13.2	7.7	56.8	12.4	44.4
Race/ethnicity of child
White	17.9	11.0	9.2	60.0	6.8	53.3
Black	16.3	13.9	4.4	62.1	25.1	37.0
Hispanic	27.3	15.9	6.2	49.3	18.6	30.7
Asian	17.1	16.1	3.6	60.9	5.5	55.3
Pacific Islander	22.3!	45.0!	‡	19.9!	‡	14.9!
American Indian/Alaska Native	19.9	14.0	5.2	59.7	31.0	28.7
Two or more races	17.9	17.6	9.1	53.6	11.1	42.5

Relationship Issues

Relationship issues: is when two partners are going through some issues in their relationship.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-gK81U8DIY .... video is explaining on how relationships problems start and how/ why they are caused.

The average life span of a live-in relationship is three years.

55% of wives and 70% of husbands who admitted being unfaithful reported that their spouses did not know of the affair.

50% of all first marriages, 70% of second marriages, 90% of subsequent marriages will end up in divorce.

Even in happy marriages, more than 80% of the time, it is the wife who raises marital issues while the husband tries to avoid discussing them.

Only 10% of people who leave marriages end up marrying the person with whom they had an affair.

In an argument when your heart rate goes over 100 beats a minute, you are incapable of hearing what your partner is trying to tell you

http://www.option.org/personal_challenges/relationship_issues.php

Parenting

Choosing to become a parent is a permanent decision, and should take careful consideration. Since young adults are in optimum physical conditioning, many may decide to become parents during early adulthood. Parents are nurturers, managers, and advisors. They may act as mediators, especially In sibling disputes. Sometimes they act as a social initiators, encouraging their children to build friendships. Parents are mentors and economic helpers. Raising a child is a major life task that involves tremendous emotional, physical, mental, and financial resources.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln9yN8aGQFM

PARENTING - to be or act as a mother or father to someone. https://www.google.com/#q=parenting+definition
You cannot be too loving. "It is simply not possible to spoil a child with love," he writes. "What we often think of as the product of spoiling a child is never the result of showing a child too much love. It is usually the consequence of giving a child things in place of love -- things like leniency, lowered expectations, or material possessions." http://www.webmd.com/parenting/features/10-commandments-good-parenting

Toddlers

Toddlers are children between the ages of  1 and 3 years. They continue to grow physically , but the pace slows considerably. During the toddlers years, children learn many new gross- and fine-motor skills. At the beginning of toddler years, toddlers are often just learning how to take a few hesitant steps without support. During infancy, neurons In the brain grow and sprout and branches or pathways.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Jthd0F3vpU  ... How toddlers act as they grow .
PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT The following are signs of expected physical development in a toddler:
GROSS MOTOR SKILLS (use of large muscles in the legs and arms)
•Stands alone well by 12 months
•Walks well by 12 - 15 months (if the child is not walking by 18 months, he or she should be evaluated by a health care provider)
•Learns to walk backwards and up steps with help at about 16 - 18 months
•Throws a ball overhand and kicks a ball forward at about 18 - 24 months
•Jumps in place by about 24 months
•Rides a tricycle and stands briefly on one foot by about 36 months

FINE MOTOR SKILLS (use of small muscles in hands and fingers)

• Makes tower of three cubes by around 15 months
• Scribbles by 15 - 18 months
• Can use spoon and drink from a cup by 24 months
• Can copy a circle by 36 months

LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT

• Uses 2 - 3 words (other than Mama or Dada) at 12 - 15 months
• Understands and follows simple commands ("bring to Mommy") at 14 - 16 months
• Names pictures of items and animals at 18 - 24 months
• Points to named body parts at 18 - 24 months
• Begins to say his or her own name at 22 - 24 months
• Combines 2 words at 16 to 24 months -- there is a range of ages at which children are first able to combine words into sentences; if a toddler cannot do so by 24 months, parents should consult their health care provider
• Knows gender and age by 36 months

SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

• Indicates some needs by pointing at 12 - 15 months
• Looks for help when in trouble by 18 months
• Helps to undress and put things away by 18 - 24 months
• Listens to stories when shown pictures and can tell about immediate experiences by 24 months
• Can engage in pretend play and simple games by 24 - 36 months

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/002010.htm

Sexual Abuse

Sexual Abuse: includes inappropriate behavior toward or with a child including touching, sexual acts, and exposure to pornography.

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1 out of every 6 American adult women has been the victim of an attempted or completed rape in her lifetime (14.8% completed rape; 2.8% attempted rape).

About 3% of American adult men — or 1 in 33 — have experienced an attempted or completed rape in their lifetime.

15% of sexual assault and rape victims are under age 12.

73% of sexual assaults were perpetrated by a non-stranger.

1 in 4 girls and 1 in 6 boys are sexually abused before their 18^th birthday.

93% of juvenile sexual assault victims know their attacker.

• 34.2% of attackers were family members.
• 58.7% were acquaintances.
• Only 7% of the perpetrators were strangers to the victim.
• Nearly 50% of all victims of forcible sodomy, sexual assault with an object, and forcible fondling are children under 12.

Victims of sexual assault are:

• 3 times more likely to suffer from depression.
• 6 times more likely to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder.
• 13 times more likely to abuse alcohol.
• 26 times more likely to abuse drugs.
• 4 times more likely to contemplate suicide

Sexual assault is one of the most under reported crimes, with 60% still being left unreported.

Males are least likely to report a sexual assault, though they make up 10 percent of all victims.

While about 80% of all victims are white, minorities are somewhat more likely to be attacked.

https://www.clevelandrapecrisis.org/resources/statistics/national-statistics-about-sexual-assault http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khc7r2PST8c

Sexual abuse is unwanted sexual activity, with perpetrators using force, making threats or taking advantage of victims not able to give consent. Most victims and perpetrators know each other. Immediate reactions to sexual abuse include shock, fear or disbelief. Long-term symptoms include anxiety, fear or post-traumatic stress disorder. While efforts to treat sex offenders remain unpromising, psychological interventions for survivors — especially group therapy — appears effective.