#child development theories

[jambandatl]

Universal Development: Year One - Year Two

Expanded Curriculum Focus 1. Integrate Technology Mindfully: Utilize interactive e-books or apps that allow your child to interact with the story by touching parts of the screen to hear sounds or change images. This can enhance his engagement and make reading time even more dynamic. Consider short, child-friendly videos that tie into your weekly themes, like watching real animals for “Animal…

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The younglings played. The younglings read. The younglings talked. The younglings laughed. The younglings paused as they noticed their teachers watching them.

Not their usual mindful gaze, not a glance, not a watch to let them know they are being watched...a different kind of watch.

It was not unsettling. It did not frighten the herbivores. It did not threaten the carnivores. It did not alert the omnivores.

It was a watch that was familiar in a way. Different but familiar.

"Stop staring at us!" they cried

"We're not staring. We're thinking." they replied back, their gaze deepening.

"Well stop thinking at us." the boldest ones said

"Your still staring." the smartest ones said

"What are you thinking about?" the curious ones said.

"Your so small."

"..." "..." "..."

"WE AREN'T SMALL!" the younglings protested. The oldest most offended. The middle most annoyed. The youngest most loud.

"We don't mean your size." one started.

"We mean you're so young." the other finished.

"I'm 8 years old!" "I'm 5!" "I'm 3 and a half!"

"And you have so much to experience." they smile

"You still have to experience taking the shuttle by yourself." they grin to the eldest ones.

"You still have to experience losing your first tooth." they beam to the middle ones.

"You still have to experience your first playdate." they whisper to the youngest.

The younglings pout and huff. The younglings protest being small. The younglings, the smartest ones, figure out what's so familiar with the watch.

It was the same watch they got from their parents. It was the same watch they got from when they told them about the new friend they made. It was the same watch they got when they learned how to make a snack by themselves. It was the same watch they got when they learned something new and exciting.

It was the same watch they would see from their teachers for days to come.

[piracytheorist]

There is something funny about Twilight, Master Spy of Westalis and Intelligence Agent Extraordinaire, getting so passionate about his fake daughter making friends so he can "gather intelligence about their families" like my dude you're the best there is and depending on a "six"-year-old's social skills is your best course of action?

Methinks it's not "for the mission" you care about Anya making friends, no?

I mean fair enough this dude tells himself that a child who grew up in an orphanage has appropriate communication and social skills like he, a fucking spy specifically trained in infiltrating and extracting information, does.

The mental gymnastics this dude will attempt to justify his "for the mission!" thinking are batshit insane.

[quantifiableme]

As the new season is coming out soon, I gotta say I fucking LOVE the writers for how they wrote Powder/Jinx.

And I could go into a million reasons why Arcane is a show that only could have been made right now. Its a Butterfly Effect of shit that happened to create *the greatest fucking show I’ve ever seen*. From technological advancements, from popularity in long-form storytelling, influence and rise of anime in the West. Even thematically, you cannot have Arcane without the advancements we’ve made in literary critique from both a Marxist and Feminist lens.

Because we’ve seen *variations* of Jinx as a trope. In the game, she is a sort of spin on Harley Quinn: crazy, sexy bitch. (Harley herself is actually a great Feminist AND animation achievement, since she was made for the Batman the Animated series. But she is a product of her 90s time. She walked so Peppa could run, etc.) We’ve also seen the scrappy, evil engineer character before. If we’re talking about the show, we have also seen the overpowered Little Girl trope too.

What we have NOT seen is a flawless combination of all three of these things.

Because Jinx’s source material is that she’s a scrappy engineer that went crazy. This is pretty cool because she’s not just a sexy evil bitch like Harley (we love Harley), she’s also an extremely intelligent engineer. (Yes yes, Harley is a brilliant therapist, but she doesn’t really use that in combat.) Jinx’s intelligence feeds into her crazy.

But what the show does is expand on this even *MORE*. For one; they take out the sexy. Both her child and aged up designs are both very intentionally supposed to be read as *girl* rather than *women*. Aged up Jinx is a teenager; with her crop-top and really long pigtails. Her “crazy” from the game —the monkey bombs, the graffiti, making all her weapons look like stuffed animals — are re-interpreted to be Jinx’s immaturity. Of course she makes her lethal, lazer gun look like a shark; she’s a teenager!

If the audience ages her up, that’s their problem. Because there is evidence in the show that Jinx is meant to be seen as a child. She is visibly shorter than *everyone*. All of her relationships revolve around her being seen as a child. She’s Silco’s *daughter*, She’s Vi’s little sister, and even with Sevika she’s a brat.

Her immaturity feeds into her evil. She’s a child with no guidance. She craves safety, she craves love. And what’s really tragic is that people do love her, but because they live in a heinously impoverished city, no one can provide her the support she needs.

And so you leave this hyper-intelligent, cripplingly lonely teenager to her own devices in said heinously impoverished city. The only person with money that can give her access to shitty materials is a weapons dealer, so she makes weapons. Said weapons dealer is also a drug lord who gives her access to magic crack, and she’s wildly depressed and cripplingly lonely, so she takes her fair share. (Shockingly; this makes her faster at making weapons and even more cripplingly lonely.)

And now you have Jinx; the poor girl everyone ignored until it was too late. And she is, by herself, the biggest threat to your city NOT IN SPITE of being an angry, impoverished, hyper-intelligent, lonely teenager.

But because of it.

[xdeerlybelovedx]

Then and Now ✨colored! Kinda love the idea of Romeo being just this super friendly and affectionate friend, as opposed to Carlo's more personal space please demeanor, but y'know, after years of dealing with him, how could you say no to that face?

[shannonallaround]

I rewatched the second sonic film with my sister tonight and man. I forget how much I genuinely love this movie

[hot-cross-poss]

assorted character designs and color keys for an animated adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s “The Star-Child”

[hauntingblue]

BACK TO ONE PIECE LETSGOOOOO

[dashiellqvverty]

i try not to be too obnoxious about liking kids media but i will be honest my one thing that really gets on my nerves is when people compare shows like idk the owl house or whatever to shows like bluey or like talk about them as if they are similar. like yes i logically realize they are probably exaggerating in order to frame all cartoons as especially childish but it still makes me want to tear my hair out like do you know how wildly different the target demographics for these shows are!!! do you realize that preschool television is generally a whole different world from tv for older kids!!!!

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[paradoxsun]

Last night I was thinking that I the world of BNHA, where there are a vast variety of body types, there seems to be an odd emphasis on the shape of a hero, especially among women. This, despite the knowledge that differing quirks have differing needs, like with FatGum.

I've theorised for a while that in the BNHA universe, people with the base body shape, ie. The "typical" human figure we now carry, are expected to live up to super strict standards to be considered attractive. Especially with the skin tight clothing that a lot of heros wear like Midnight and All Night, there is emphasis on the musculature and figure. I won't get into the discrimination that hetero-figures face, because I think Spinner and Shoji discuss it, but clearly the standards of what makes people conventionally attractive is different. Maybe scales must be brightly coloured and shining? Heteromorphs must show enough commonalities with base bodies? (Looking at Mirko and Hawks) (Is Grand Orca considered attractive? I read that children cry seeing him, which hurts him a lot)

I'd like to think that skin tones are no longer a marker of attraction (colorism is a huge deal in Asian countries. I know because I am Asian), as evidenced by Mina and Mirko, but I feel like it is taken over by other kinds of discrimination. Clearly women are held to ridiculous standards even in the BNHA universe.

It would be a fun aspect to explore. Clearly BNHA is a very well built universe with a society filled with different types of discrimination and class issues that can and should be explored.

[s0fter-sin]

general society is such an underthought aspect of mha. obviously there’s the big things like the obsession over heroic quirks and the demonisation of villainous quirks. quirkless people are dismissed entirely but i don’t think we talk about how society in general would have to handle a world with super powers.

we know after afo’s first uprising, the government overcorrected and outlawed public quirk usage. we know people have their quirks registered and go through quirk counselling as well as a type of gym class where they practice under teacher supervision.

how in the hell is that supposed to work?

the closest equivalent i can think of is mental health services. someone would have to study for a long time to be able to pursue quirk counselling as a career. it’s also a highly personalised system: everyone has a different quirk - even similar ones have different activations, triggers, exceptions and drawbacks - so no two sessions could ever be the same. if anyone’s been through mental health services, you know how rough it is; it’s an overworked, underpaid system and if you live somewhere that only offers a few free visits, it can also be expensive.

and that’s an elective service.

almost everyone on the planet would need quirk counselling.

there’s no way they could implement such a labour intensive and individual public system and we literally see that they can’t.

we see the gym class in amajiki’s flashback and he only has a few minutes with his teacher before he’s chided for not being more impressive and utilising his quirk to the fullest and they move on to the next student. say a standard class is twenty students like it is at ua. that leaves just over two minutes for each student to learn and practice their quirks. you can’t focus on just one kid per lesson bc what will the other nineteen do? do teachers also have to have a degree in quirk counselling? is that part of becoming a phys ed teacher or is it some random joe schmo trying to wrap his head around literal super powers?

given that inko goes to garaki - a doctor - to confirm izuku’s quirklessness, it can be assumed that quirk counselling is entwined with the medical system. i don’t know if you’ve ever had to apply for a specialist before but you can be on their waiting list for a while. a quirk counsellor is essentially a specialist. are there subcategories of counsellors? do you focus on either emitter, transformation or mutation the way doctors become cardiologists, paediatricians and neurologists? or is one person expected to be equally knowledgeable about all three?

we see through toga that her counsellor identified her need for blood but they didn’t find a way to curb those instincts or even find a supplement for her. she’s left to be abused by her family for something she can’t control bc it’s literally in her dna. compare that to iida who knows he needs orange juice to power his quirk. his entire family are pro heroes so it would be easy to assume they could employ a private quirk counsellor the same way richer people can employ private doctors.

how many people have specific requirements due to their quirks? changes in their physiology that have to be treated the same way nutritional deficiencies and allergies do? even people without mutations probably have those requirements: does kirishima’s shark teeth mean he’s an obligate carnivore? does mina’s acid change her ph levels and what vitamins and minerals she needs? how would they figure that out? quirk counselling.

what about kids like touya who would need extensive counselling so he could figure out how to live with his quirk without hurting himself? kaminari essentially has seizures and they’re so normal to him and everyone around him that they’re the butt of jokes. they wouldn’t be a one and done patient; there’s always going to be people that need continued support the exact same way there’s people that need developmental and disability support. there would be so many quirks that harm their user, are they just taught to bury their quirks? as if that wouldn’t cause any physical or mental consequences?

governments can’t create a system that applies to only some people, we’re expected to believe they’ve made one that applies to all of them?

[enbyleighlines]

Re: my last reblog

How many people know why we call people who are very particular about certain things “anal”? And for those of you who don’t, where do you think it came from?

[louiskechi]

people are constantly talking about how “all these kids online are faking disorders” because of outdated statistics showing how rare it is, but i feel like what doesn’t get acknowledged is how psychosis specifically is likely on the rise because of the effect growing up on the internet has on a person. kids are constantly being groomed or exposed to traumatizing shit (raise your hand if someone at school showed you a porn or snuff video because they thought it was funny)

we don’t have a lot of studies (to my knowledge) specifically on the effects of childhood development linked to social media, but we have a lot of studies pointing to how quickly the internet can cause people to believe in the most outlandish conspiracies. i don’t think it’s a stretch to say that psychosis and psychotic trauma disorders are likely becoming more common because of the internet

[kittykatninja321]

Jason and Catherine thoughts soft launch: I think they could’ve (would’ve?) been terribly enmeshed

[ineedfairypee]

Poor kid can’t catch a break