Listening to Children
Marsha WaltonListening to Children Weekly examples of what children have to say – about friendship, aggression, punishment, gender, religion, grown-ups, and about all the great questions we discuss with college students in philosophy 101.
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Consultation in the Girl’s Room
In last week’s Listening to Children, I shared a story by a fifth grader who told us that her friend gave her courage.
I made the argument that peer relationships in elementary school are the primary site for the development of emotion reg...
Consultation in the Girl’s Room
On Tuesday night, when I thought I was going to do some final editing of this post, I accidentally published it. If you are a subscriber, this is the same post that came to you Tuesday night. I’m back on my Thursday morning schedule!...
“My friend gave me courage.”
In about 500 of the stories children wrote for me, the author wrote about someone they called a ‘friend,’ and these authors often emphasized the expectation that your friends support you. Usually, when they wrote about supporting one anothe...
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
My 9th grade English teacher, Mr. Hayes, taught us to diagram sentences. I was enthralled. “Diagramming sentences,” I exclaimed to Mr. Hayes, “is like doing algebra with language!” Before the 9th grade, I thought language arts was the easy...
Friendship Drama in the Sixth Grade
The primary developmental task of the pre-teen years is the establishment of mutually satisfying relationships with age-mates. In a classroom of twenty-or-so students, children must find a few they will relate to as friends or ‘best friends...
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Marsha Walton is a developmental psychologist and an emeritus professor at Rhodes College. She has spent forty years studying children's accounts of their own experiences and the role story-sharing plays in social and moral development.
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