Consequences of Stress on Children's Development

Relocating can be a stressor for children, moving to new environment and having to make new friends. This is something that I had to overcome in my childhood. It affected cognitively because I was always wondering of what would happen, how things would turn out. I related this to children who are of Middle Eastern Decent, and the anxiety they possibly feel after the mentality of Americans changed after September 11^th. However Derman and her colleagues discussed how children are aware of racial  and cultural differences but do not necessarily understand them. The people around them and their environment shapes their opinion thought process.

  

The Media

 ~ Showed pictures of people of Middle Eastern decent and talked about the bad things they did

  

 The Home

 ~ Parents might have made comments that was a generalizations of that particular race 

Middle Eastern Families

  ~ Experiencing being blamed for actions taken by people of their same ethnicity and in return making a generalization of Americans

  

These children who lived through September 11^th had a lot of emotional fears those of Middle Eastern decent and American children.  They both had to worry what the people they came in  contact with on a daily basis might do to them. Although when children are put together they will typically paly without any qualms, however when they have been TAUGHT to so prejuidece to a group of people things will not prevail the same.

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Derman-Sparks, L., Tanaka-Higa, C., Sparks, B. (n.d.). Children, race and racism: How race awareness develops. Retrieved from TeachingforChange.org: http://www.teachingforchange.org/node/125.

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