If language is cultural then how should we handle cultural norms of poor grammar or things like pidgin/creole languages in schools? What if teachers have poor grammar?

Comment on each learner's discussion of the influences on child health.

Sara post

Obesity is something that is of major concern all over the world. Obesity is defined as greater than 20 percent increase over your own healthy weight (Berk) . The article I chose to read talks all about obesity in children from the referral and management, to possible interventions and lifestyle changes, to possible surgical interventions, and lastly prevention from this ever happening.

Obesity does not just effect the individual, it effects the family as well. The article states that students that have obesity likely have parents that are overweight as well.

Obesity can lead to many long term health issues.Obesity can lead to diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, respiratory abnormalities, heart disease, circulatory difficulties and more. If the whole family is struggling with health issues it will take away from other areas in their life. It lessens family time, school time, and time to get out and exercise. Society doesn't do a lot to prevent obesity yet.

That's why fast food is cheap and easy to eat while natural, healthy food is more expensive. There is also a lot of lack of information in the world regarding nutrition.

Abiola

COLLAPSE

The United States seems to be in the lead in the developed countries for childhood obesity epidemic. Given the numbers, twenty-five percent of children in the United States are overweight and 11% are obese compared to other developed countries ( Dehghan et al., 2005). But the cause of this epidemic may be due to various factor, such as the over-processed food leading to more sugar, calories and fat in a serving which may be more than a child's daily intake.

Then there is the lack of inexpensive balanced nutritional food which places parents in the precarious position of feeding their child/ren the most easier and affordable things available, fast food. Other causes may be genetic, environmental, lacking physical activities and for many communities not having access to affordable nutritious.

According to Center for Disease Control and Prevention (2016), some factors which contribute to this health epidemics stems from the influence of the community, where the person lives, genetics and person's behaviour. Society may have participated, in a sense, to this epidemic beginning with the surmountable chains of fast food restaurant, and the large portions of serving.

This societal contribution may be a response to the change in the views of food being the means for nourishment to more of a lifestyle and a source of enjoyment.

And promoting the concept of more physical activities for children may be just a talking point. Physical activities can not offset the unhealthy amount of fat, sugar and calories that create the poor nutritive diet; this can lead to having to engage in 1-2 hours of extreme rigorous activity to counteract a single large-sized children's meal at a fast food restaurant. So, a child partaking in this type of diet frequently will not be able to withstand the effect, the making of a social health crisis of childhood obesity ( Dehghan et al., 2005).

critique these next two student analyses.

Alexander

So, my child that has grown up in her latest case study is Harika. Harika lives in an apartment complex, being very close to her family and extended family. She excels at nearly all academic tasks, while is behind in physical motor skills and social-emotional interactions. She is very shy, preferring not to be involved in class. That is a brief introduction to my student, now let's think about what Piaget might say about this.

Piaget would classify Harika as being in the concrete operational stage, which means that Harika should be thinking about information in her world in a logical, organized fashioned.

While I certainly believe that Harika has this cognitive ability now at her age of 8, I do not know just how drastically that differs from her at 5. In our textbook there were a few criticisms of Piaget's work, and I say naturally our understanding is going to change as we learn moving forward.

Harika has been exceling in academics since preschool, able to complete tasks at a higher level. This would contradict the idea that only someone in the concrete operational stage could complete such tasks (Berk & Myers, 2015).

In addition, Piaget has a complete lack of including social and cultural factors, which are essential to understanding Harika's behavior (Berk & Myers, 2015). Harika's behavior is certainly influenced by the fact that she is a part of a large family, and the youngest child in that family.

If we say her temperament was innately slow to warm up in social situations, she would rely on that temperament. Her family seemed not to mind this behavior and continued to focus on academic success for Harika. So whatever behavior is expected and rewarded at home will be replicated at school, which contributes to her success and shortcomings.

Christen post

The concrete operational stage begins around age seven and continues until approximately age eleven. During this time, children gain a better understanding of mental operations. Children begin thinking logically about concrete events, but have difficulty understanding abstract or hypothetical concepts.

Logic

Piaget determined that children in the concrete operational stage were fairly good at the use of inductive logic (inductive reasoning). Inductive logic involves going from a specific experience to a general principal. An example of inductive logic would be would noticing that every time you are around a cat, you have itchy eyes, a runny nose, and a swollen throat. You might reason from that experience that you are allergic to cats.

Reversibility

One of the most developments in this stage is an understanding of reversibility, or awareness that actions can be reversed. An example of this is being able to reverse the order of relationships between mental categories.

Spencer has difficulty organizing tasks and activities, which leads me to believe he lacks the ability to put two and two together. If he is having trouble organizing tasks and activities it is because he does not know what should come next.

When children are on a schedule, they typically are able to determine what comes next during a task or activity. Although he is not quite the age for this developmental skill to begin, his lack of ability now lets me know that the problem will persist.