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Essay on Children Growing Up Too Quickly
Although considerable effort is being expanded on research in early brain development, this area of investigation related to childhood development is still in its infancy. Younger children are more perceptually dependant then older children and their thought process are only able to consider the surface of a stimulus that is provided to them.
In other words, these children are incapable of in depth thinking, analysis and reasoning. Young children are not capable of integrating the logic and reasoning behind violence depicted on the media and tend to copy this behavior as it is shown, without being able to understand why it is being shown. It has been discovered that children who watch an excess of television which is inappropriate have a tendency of becoming bullies in later life as a result of poorly developed empathy, self-regulation and prosocial skills. Such tendencies are the result of early cognitive deficits that lead to decreased competence with peers as well as a copying of violence that may be seen on television.
If pornography is somehow seen on television, then it too may be considered to be an appropriate form of behavior, without a complete understanding of the circumstances and the logic behind its appropriateness. Some researchers have expressed a sense of concern that childhood may be disappearing as a result of inappropriate parental controls, the decline of moral authority and kids are being forced to deal with influences outside the home. Computer technology has also advanced and it is capable of presenting to a child the results of various software designs with which interaction is possible. Powerful educational technologies can engage children in design-based activities that are epistemologically relevant, personally meaningful, and have resulting products that can be shared with a community. Manipulative objects that have computational power, such as the Lego Mindstorms construction kit used in Project Inter-Actions, are especially valuable for supporting the development of concrete.....
