1900S TEENAGERS

Teenagers of early twentieth century

Teenagers of early twentieth century

Introduction

Parenting is the regulation of children's behavior and development in order to promote children's survival, adaptation to the environment, and pursuit of their own goals. Parenting may also be conceived of as socialization, or inculcation of the values and norms of a culture or society. Good parenting enhances children's health and well-being across a broad array of outcomes. Parenting contributes to infants' attachment and exploratory behavior; young children's language skills, self-esteem, self-regulation, social skills and peer relationships, academic achievement, behavior, and resilience; adolescents' academic achievement, problem behaviors, and risk taking; and young adults' well-being and risk-taking behavior.

This entry first discusses determinants of parenting and then discusses the various ways parenting has been studied and described, including how dimensions of parenting are related to child health. Finally, predominantparenting interventions and their effectiveness are briefly discussed.

Discussion

All the information generated was through several interviews of elderly people I know who were teenagers in the early 1900s. The oldest amongst all was my Grand father's friend who was born in 1922. However, they all highlighted on the factors that differentiated them as a teenagers than the teenagers of todays era. They highlighted that in the early years of last century, teenagers was considered a short time between childhood and the responsibilities of adulthood. Most young people had access to higher education, but early into the workplace.

During the early 1900s the teenagers used to face hard times, unlike the teenagers of today. For all the nostalgia opens the readers also and above all a picture of very hard times. Peaceful aging in the family was, at least for the servants and prostitutes, not reality. There, they usually slept in the barn, which was really not a good old time. However, the teenagers had constant shortage of money led to an unbalanced diet, if not to the starving children. An appropriate weight is in the stories of the people interviewed on the topic highlighted about the food, has some recipes in the appendix, old-time favorite foods. The list of ingredients reflects the few sparse conditions resist much. The lives of the children were characterized by hard physical labor, poor nutrition and poor clothes were commonplace. The labors of the field work or for example a washing day consumed on the bodies, even in those of mothers who were pregnant, but do not take time off - surely another reason for the high infant and child mortality (Sterling, & Rice, 2004, 58-73).

In addition, plagued the people, above all, the concern will be sick. What to do if neither a doctor nor money in the vicinity of Medicine is available? They tried to get help with home remedies. Death was everywhere; he played himself off in the middle of life: the dead were laid out in the house and the children also attended the vigil, as we can see from the stories (Johnson, & Strange, & Carnevali, 2007, 21-46).

Gender roles of teenagers during the 1900s were clearly divided, even the ...