The Comeback Kid Strikes Again

Testing for Intelligence First, I would like to ask the question why it is so important to find an effective way to measure children’s minds and abilities? Who wants to know, and why? What will the information be used for? Based on what Berger said in her book, that “learning to speak, read, and write the school language is pivotal for academic achievement, the foundation of all primary school education. Children differ widely in how well they use the school language. Some differences may be innate. However, most of the language gap between one child and another is the result of the social context, specifically of two factors: family income and adult expectations. Decades of research throughout the world have found a strong correlation between academic achievement and socioeconomic status” (Berger, 2012) . I mean can you honestly and fairly test for intelligence when there are factors involved, and given the opportunity, what if the variable of the environment that the child is ...

I decided to write on noise. When I was a child I grew up next to a train station. The train tracks were so close to our house, I could feel my bed shake at night. This cause some night mares. I thought the train would fall off the tracks, roll over and crash into our house This noise kept me up a lot. I coped with the noise by reading comic books,and other books. Looking at books helped me to fall asleep. "Helping children with fear of loud noises can be frustrating, particularly when you cannot avoid these noises, but remember that most children eventually grow out of this" ( Harms, Nichole, 1999-2013). Eventually I grew out of this. " All children have fears at some point in their life and it is usually considered to be a normal part of development . These fears are only abnormal if they are persistent or keep the child overly preoccupied with the subject that is feared, so that it interferes with normal activities, if the child can not be reassured or distract...