This document discusses peer acceptance and status among children, bullying, and the impact of media and the internet on child development. It describes traits of popular, rejected, controversial, neglected, and average children. Bullied children often report more loneliness and difficulty making friends. Victims of bullying frequently experience headaches, abdominal pain, sleeping problems, depression. Media overexposure can negatively impact weight, substance use, eating disorders, and parent-child relationships. Unrestricted internet access poses risks to children without supervision.

1. Play, Peers, School and Media
Module 15
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2. Peer Acceptance and Status
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3. Peer Acceptance and Status
Popular children
Think of popular kids in school
Which traits make people popular?
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4. Peer Acceptance and Status
 Popular children
 reinforce others
 listen
 open lines of communication with peers
 happy
 control negative emotions
 show enthusiasm
 show empathy
 self-confident , not conceited
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5. Peer Acceptance and Status
Rejected children
Adjustment problems
Some are aggressive
Lower IQ’s
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6. Peer Acceptance and Status
Controversial children
Combination of traits from popular & rejected
Most aggressive
Prosocial behavior
Manipulative
Manipulated

7. Peer Acceptance and Status
Neglected children
Low interaction with peers
Described as shy by peers
Low incidence of depression
Average children
Average:
Socially
Cognitively

8. Bullying
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9. Bullying
Bullied children
Reported
More loneliness
Difficulty making friends
Anxious & socially withdrawn children
Non-threatening & unlikely to retaliate
Aggressive children
May be targets because their behavior is irritating to bullies
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10. Victims
more headaches
more abdominal pain
sleeping problems
tired
more depression
Bullies
Usually low grades
Smoke
Drink alcohol
Bullying Cont.
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11. Media and the Internet
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12. Media and the Internet
TV in bedrooms?
Computer in bedrooms?
Sleep affected?

13. Media and the Internet
Group Questions
You are parents of a 5 yr. old
Discuss putting TV in your child's bedroom
Discuss putting a computer in your child’s bedroom
When?
Child
Teen?
Why or why not?
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14. Media and the Internet
2/3 of children under 2 watch TV daily
Under 2 should not watch TV
Why?
Eyesight
Limits language development
Stifles psychosocial development
Cognitive development
Interferes with other aspects of brain development
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15. Media and the Internet
All types of media overexposure
Weight gain
Drug use
Smoking
Eating disorders
Less connection with parents?
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16. Media and the Internet
Problems kids unsupervised on Internet?
Problems with being on too long?
What can a parent do?
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