Childhood+Innocence+(From+a+psychological+perspective)

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 * 1) Osho teaches that childhood innocense
 * 2) ignorance is better than knowing whats bad
 * 3) loose innocence when you know what youve lost
 * 4) bound to be corrupted
 * 5) childhood innocence is not earned
 * 6) children of innocence in a far better stage than a learned person
 * 7) children cant cover up their innocence
 * 8) children are guilable
 * 9) represent model they follow
 * 10) never question authority
 * 11) believe whatever we are told with out question
 * 12) kids are dismissed as naïve and silly
 * 13) children easily become intrested in things
 * 14) openthemselves up to new things
 * 15) see the world as it truely is
 * 16) purposefully shredding the truth of reality only creates ignorance in a mind already gullible to apparent, misleading “truths” constantly bombarding it
 * 17) amused by some of the smallest things
 * 18) The false sense of security and pride in historical figures
 * 19) They are the ones who might see the world through fantastical, ridiculous lenses

"The Modern Myth of Childhood Innocence." //The International Child and Youth Care Network [CYC-Net]//. Web. 26 Oct. 2011. . k.c.
 * 1) when children dont knowabout the race barrier its considered innocent
 * 2) commonly veiwed that if children werent white they werent innocent
 * 3) children having a very sophisticated understanding of standardized practices of play
 * 4) If you want to make a political argument, just add the ‘do it for the children’ rhetoric, and it suddenly becomes a lot more persuasive
 * 5) children veiwed as innocent so when talked about in politics is veiwed as a good thing to be for the children
 * 6) commonly used in literature with association to makecharacters loook more innocent
 * 7) blackface imagery is one of the deepest aspects of American popular culture
 * 8) black children were asked a series of questions about brown and pink dolls; most subjects expressed a preference for the pink dolls
 * 9) that choice of dolls does not necessarily index self-esteem
 * 10) You see children’s expertise in children’s culture
 * 11) The use of children in political arguments continues even today

"THE LOSS OF CHILDHOOD - NYTimes.com." //The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia//. 08 May 1983. Web. 26 Oct. 2011. . .
 * 1) respond to world as children in a spiritual way
 * 2) only to lose our innocence as more prosaic interpretations
 * 3) childhood involves two phases
 * 4) first: the child stands as the center of their universe
 * 5) second: external influence takes control
 * 6) when we tend to experiment and make choices about what kind of person we want to be and with whom we want to associate
 * 7) we find ourselves at the mercy of two vital, but opposing, drives
 * 8) either be inpdependent
 * 9) or become part of an already established group
 * 10) groupings that depend on gender, nationality, place, race, language, sexual orientation, social class, religious affiliation and political persuasion

The Invention of Childhood Innocence | Harvard Gazette." //Home - Harvard Public Affairs & Communications//. Web. 26 Oct. 2011. .
 * 1) Children can kill, steal, humiliate and lie
 * 2) Children are now at liberty and are encouraged to call the authorities if their parents so much as lay a hand on them
 * 3) young children cant tell punishment from whats trying to protect them
 * 4) forceful action directed at children by their parents can henceforth be classed as torture
 * 5) donthave years of experience to determinewhats right or wrong
 * 6) children arent old enough toknow whatschild abuse or not
 * 7) innocence stole becasue of violence and sex
 * 8) now everything is a potential danger to kids
 * 9) standard for kids has changed because some are more mature then others
 * 10) noattempt to hide crimes, so children are exposed to them

"From Childhood Innocence to Spiritual Maturity | Psychology Today." //Psychology Today: Health, Help, Happiness Find a Therapist//. Web. 26 Oct. 2011. .
 * 1) children are not naturally evil
 * 2) children is always a mark of evil without such development
 * 3) children are more likely to have blonde hair which is a sign of innocence
 * 4) they are over all too trusting mean they can easily be mislead, henceforth becoming innocence
 * 5) frequently children cannot tell a lie, because they are too innocent to think of suppressing the truth
 * 6) children have to learn empathy
 * 7) often have a poor grasp of consequences of their actions
 * 8) when they become a teenager they are forced to loose innocence
 * 9) subversions that portray children not so much as evil but as capable of counter-tropical insight
 * 10) reason the ageism double standards were created

During Childhood, Ignorance Is Bliss | Daily Trojan." //Daily Trojan | University of Southern California//. Web. 26 Oct. 2011. .
 * 1) were seen as innocent, playful, childlike creatures in need of special protection
 * 2) parents were fiercely determined to keep childhood a carefree golden age
 * 3) the language they use, the things they know and above all in their relations with the adult world, children have changed
 * 4) kids are a lot freer now
 * 5) children are now heavily exposed to sex
 * 6) the age of protection has ended
 * 7) our parents expected us to understand their problems and frustrations
 * 8) children's lives are always a mirror of adult life
 * 9) divorces have changed the way children are delt with now
 * 10) in those days before The Joy of Sex and X-rated movies, sex was still in the closet and drugs were unavailable outside the lower reaches of society

Children Are Innocent - Television Tropes & Idioms." //Home Page - Television Tropes & Idioms//. Web. 26 Oct. 2011. .

"Philosophy of Education -- Aries: The Discovery of Childhood." // Webster //// University //. Web. 24 Oct. 2011. . C.B. Phillipe Aries says: "LOCKE AND ROUSSEAU: EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION." // Baylor.edu //. Baylor University. Web. []
 * 1) 1. Medieval art until about the twelfth century did not know childhood or did not attempt to portray it.
 * 2) 2. it seems more probable that there was no place for childhood in the medieval world.
 * 3) 3. Painters portrayed children as men
 * 4) 4. Portrayed otherwise as miniature adults
 * 5) 5. In early epics, children were commonly heroes
 * 6) 6. Childhood was a period of transition
 * 7) 7. Corpses were depicted as smaller than adults- children
 * 8) 8. Souls- same as above
 * 9) 9. Many sculptors, in depictions of children in Scripture, depict them as smaller men
 * 10) 10. Even specific sculptures of children stated in Scripture are depicted as small adults
 * 11) 11. In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, 3 types of more modern children began to emerge
 * 12) 12. 1. The young angel: an adolescent
 * 13) 13. 2. The Infant Jesus: portrayed as innocent and pure
 * 14) 14. 3. The naked child: used as a symbol of death
 * 15) 15. 15th, 16th centuries, children were becoming portrayed in art as more innocent
 * 16) 16. Putti- Naked angelic babies used in churches and art
 * 17) 17. The change from children being adults to having innocence due to the renaissance
 * 18) 18. The renaissance caused artists views of children to change
 * 19) 19. Their art changed richer/ more affluent people’s views
 * 20) 20. Their influence changed poorer people’s views
 * 21) 21. Also, the improvement of life from medieval times meant childhood could exist.
 * 22) 22. Previous times demanded usage of every person to work
 * 23) 23. Therefore, early children worked as early as possible
 * 24) 24. This gave people time to develop ways to treat their children
 * 25) 25. Much based off of Scripture and the Bible
 * 26) 26. Seventeenth century- art shows children playing in groups and with parents
 * 27) 27. the discovery of childhood began in the thirteenth century
 * 28) 28. its progress can be traced in the history of art in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
 * 29) 29. the evidence of its development became more plentiful and significant from the end of the sixteenth century and throughout the seventeenth
 * 1) Colin Burr
 * 2) 1. Locke said to educate children
 * 3) 2. He said the wealth and prosperity of nations depended on it
 * 4) 3. Education has to start early
 * 5) 4. Reason- to train able youth
 * 6) 5. Tells parents to watch their kids to learn their inclinations
 * 7) 6. Tells that childhood should be controlled
 * 8) 7. Given even if not wanted, to suppress it
 * 9) 8. Should use freedom to encourage learning
 * 10) 9. Should isolate children to encourage learning
 * 11) 10. Locke had ideals that imitated the early medieval times
 * 12) 11. Locke said punishment should be based on disgrace
 * 13) 12. Should be focused on other people rather than self
 * 14) 13. This would discourage pleasure and play
 * 15) 14. This also would cause the child to be exposed to the world earlier
 * 16) 15. This would cause loss of childhood innocence faster than usual
 * 17) 16. Rosseau said to educate a child
 * 18) 17. His education was more natural
 * 19) 18. Exposed the child to life
 * 20) 19. Was not all controlling
 * 21) 20. Said children could not understand reason, therefore it was useless to try to forcefully teach them
 * 22) 21. Believed in free play in nature for education
 * 23) 22. Wanted a child to be amiable and ready to learn after childhood
 * 24) 23. Wanted parents to love childhood and encourage its games
 * 25) 24. From natural education, a child will have upstanding morals, etc.
 * 26) 25. childhood would help the child to, later in life, judge things by his way, not the way of his society
 * 27) 26. This revolutionized the thinking of childhood
 * 28) 27. this turned it to the relishing of childhood

History of Childhood." //Grinnell.edu//. Grinnell University. Web. [] Colin Burr [] [] [] http://web.grinnell.edu/courses/mitc/vandergr/201%20Web%20site/History%20of%20Childhood.htm
 * 1) 1. Protestant religion taught that humans were naturally evil
 * 2) 2. Children had to be shaped at a young age
 * 3) 3. Freedom and play were turned into moral lessons
 * 4) 4. Calvinist religion believed hard work was the key to heaven
 * 5) 5. Therefore, children were taught to work at a very early age
 * 6) 6. During the Middle Ages, childhood was limited to the upper classes
 * 7) 7. The idea of childhood being a separate stage came to fruition
 * 8) 8. Lower classes had an infancy stage until age 7
 * 9) 9. Due to religion, this changed
 * 10) 10. Due to less need for child labor, this changed
 * 11) 11. Focus shifted to new middle class
 * 12) 12. Women, after the revolution, turned energy toward family
 * 13) 13. Used energy that used to be used for war effort focused toward children
 * 14) 14. Children became more nurtured