Pooh Bear A Child s Love For Being Adventurous And Trying...

There are several words that came to my mind when thinking about how I view children. To me, I see children as adventurous, imaginative, curious, talkative, knowledgeable, creative, active, independent, loving, and much more. When I came up with those words as I thought about my nephews and niece and the interactions that I have had with them. As I was creating my artifact, I was thinking about those words and how I could put those words into something visual. The idea of having a child’s silhouette filled with different images came to my mind. Each image represents how I perceive children. Pooh Bear represents a child’s love for being adventurous and trying new things. The book represents the knowledge that they have and receive†¦show more content†¦I don’t think I have ever met a child who wasn’t loving. The hearts represent the love that children have for adults and for everything in their life. The art easel, rainbow, and background of color represent how children are creative and are able to come up with several different ideas on their own. Curious George represents two things in this picture. First, how children are always curious and getting into something new. Secondly, he represents how children see things differently than adults. Children have been a part of all of our lives and at one point in time we were them. Not one child is the same, they each have their own personality and are uniquely designed. From Hill, Stremmel, and Fu (2005), â€Å"Children are a gift, not a possession; parenthood is a trust, not a right.† Children are made in different ways, which makes it so that our education systems need to be on their toes to be able to keep up with the changing ways of our children. With different needs that need to be met for children, over time a certain view of children has been accumulated. Over time society has developed different views of children and how they should be seen. Going from generation to generation there are more differences when it comes to how we see children. In this generation, there are more stereotypes of boys and girls that are seen to be stressed. Boys are to wear blue and darker colors, play with dinosaurs, get dirty, and be tough. Girls are to wear pink