Subjects: Relationships / Family / Parenting

Demonstrates how preschoolers learn to negotiate relationships with other children through play and physical interaction. It also explores the three predominant styles of parenting and the impact each has on children’s psychosocial development

Introduces four preschoolers, including fraternal twins. The level of gross and fine motor skills that children can achieve is discussed.

Examines how the media influence children, promoting a sedentary lifestyle with advertisements that promote poor nutritional choices. The issue of child neglect and its impact on development is also discussed.

Shows how nutrition and genetics play an important role in the development of children. It also explores biological disorders such as ADD and AD/HD.

Discusses concrete operational thought, using complex language and moral reasoning. Further, it considers the value of bilingual education, ESL programs, and ways of learning more than one language.

Illustrates the social development of children on two fronts: adult-child relationships to teach basic social skills, and peer relationships to teach cooperation, competition, and intimacy.

Focuses on the experience of four school-age children and how individual talents, interests, and backgrounds may affect their development.

Explores the role of the school in a child’s development, depicting the social transformation that begins when a boy in fifth grade meets a teacher who helps turn his school experience around.

Examines the physical changes that take place during puberty, and explores the impact of nutrition, physical appearance, and social pressure.

Focuses on the ways in which adolescents develop more complex and sophisticated types of thinking and reasoning, and explains how teens learn.