Child Development

I'm sorry that is has been a few days. I have midterms and papers due next week and a midterm and a presentation this week so, I did not have enough time to come up with something to tell everyone.

There is ever more shows depicting the horrors of child abuse in one form or another. I hope I'm not depressing everyone. I don't mean to paint the world as a bad place where children need to be locked away at home, which is actually a form of abuse, but I want you all to know that the world has problems and if we try to help, we can make it better.

So now I can tell you about some of the classes I am taking. Child and Adolescent Development (ChAD) 161 is a class that teaches about child care administration, which helps in knowing how to run a daycare center, if you chose to do so. ChAD 162 is about children in a multicultural society. We learn about different ethnicities, races, and how each is similar or different and why. ChAD 163 is about adolescent development. We learn about puberty again, and how stupid adolescents are about STDs but that only because know one actually tells them anything. JS 136 is about child and family violence. Have to know that different kinds and what the legal system does. Math 107A is a precalculus class, which is what middle school children should be learning, and maybe they do learn that now. I know I did not even get up to precalculus until the end of my senior year of high school. I couldn't handle precalculus when I took it my freshman year of college. But I am enjoying the class, of course it seems a little easy, but at least this semester it isn't all about the teacher lecturing, we get to work in groups to work on problems, and explian it to others who don't understand it at first. So its nice to get in some actual practice.