Childhood Essays

In Victorian times, children had a very suppressive upbringing; “spare the rod and spoil the child” was a common motto. Children were treated poorly and unfairly, they were expected to be seen and not heard. In “Great Expectations”, Pip is treated very harshly by his sister, Mrs Joe, “…she had …

This was Dickens’ second-to-last complete novel. It was first published as a weekly series which made its first appearance in December 1860. Similar to Dickens’ memories of his own childhood and his great use of complex dual perspective we experience in his early years the young Pip seemed powerless to …

The practical work our group performed in October 2007 was a devised performance meaning we took for example a poem or part of a script and based our performance around it. Our devised piece of work was based on childhood memories. In this essay I will evaluate my own contribution …

Looking at the lovely photos in my purse, I will always recall, in retrospect, my innocent childhood. They are the photos taken at different ages of me and there are also photos of my friends and family. I enjoy looking at them when I feel miserable or tired. They will …

I have selected appropriate secondary material which links closely to my topic of investigation. My first source is Neil Postman who has written a book about the ‘Disappearance of childhood’ (1982). Within this book he discusses how children are growing up to fast, and talks about how it is growing …

A common theme in many of Carol Ann Duffy’s poems is childhood. Most of her poems include some element of childhood. The perspective of her poems are rarely in that of a child’s, as she often explores the themes of childhood by referring to the characters childhood memories. However in …

During the romantic period views on childhood dramatically changed from the previous. The enlightenment involved people having the belief that children should have no respects and as a result were ‘seen and no heard’. This dramatically changed to children being a source of learning, so children could teach adults ways …

The Romantic era ushered in a whole new way in which children were perceived. Romantics did not believe in the “Seen but not heard” attitude towards children. The Romantics often busied themselves trying to understand what made a man, what shaped a person’s personality to create the adult. Three poems …

Erik H. Erikson created the theory of psychosocial development that breaks the human life cycle into 8 different levels of maturity. The different levels to this psychosocial theory are infancy, early childhood, childhood (play age), childhood (school age), adolescence and young adulthood, young adulthood, mature adulthood, and old age. Each …

Introduction This paper will attempt to explain the physical, cognitive and psychosocial development that occurs in the pre-school child from positive encouragement of environmental influences, such as parents, siblings, kindergarten teachers and peers. It will incorporate the works of several theorists including Erikson and Piaget to help to explain how …