Summary: Only the most naive parent expects constant domestic bliss, but when kids get out of control, frustration, anger-and, most of all, pleas for help-are completely natural. This program deals with behavior and development obstacles faced by two different families of young children. Three-year-old Leon has speech problems which often force his widowed mother and older brother Josh to translate for...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: If a teenager is psychologically resilient, he or she has the ability to "bounce back" after something negative happens. This program explains how young adults can develop that resilience, increasing the likelihood that they'll recover from adolescent stresses and crises without developing deep or lasting psychological problems. A case study of a traumatized young woman who turned to drugs as a...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Although children 7 to 12 still need their physical safety and health protected, they also require strong role models, boundaries, and positive feedback to develop fully. This video will take the viewer through two stages: (1) middle childhood, when children build on what they learned in early childhood, and (2) early adolescence, when children begin to undergo the changes associated with...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Why do boys underachieve? How does celebrity culture influence the self-esteem of young girls? In an atmosphere dominated by sex and consumerism, are children growing up too quickly? This program addresses those issues, reporting on a group of 25 eight-year-olds as they adjust to gender roles and expectations. Nathan's parents have gone all out to make sure he grows up without stereotypes-but...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Sometimes even the smallest step can be the culmination of an epic journey. This program analyzes the long, painful, and ultimately euphoric struggle a child undergoes to roll, sit up, crawl, fumble around aided by furniture, and finally take one giant leap for humankind. Enthralling footage of adventurous, rapidly developing babies shows how they build muscle power and coordination, practice...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: For the newborn, the notion of coexistence-that there are others in their world with whom they can communicate-begins with crying. In this program, researchers and other experts join with parents to discuss the steps children go through in mastering their mother tongue. Topics include the process of cognition, a baby's ability to make use of body language and semiotic gestures, babbling as a...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Do our brains store experiences from our first few months of life? What happens to children who witness disturbing events before age two? How does being unwanted affect a baby? This program explores the personal significance of memory and examines the developmental stages at which meaningful awareness is formed. Visiting a group of 25 children, the film observes them as they turn two years old...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Why do some children give up on problems easily while others persevere? What makes a boy or girl afraid to try in the first place? This program studies the factors that help create a resilient personality and the reasons why some children back down from challenges. Visiting a group of 25 seven-year-olds, the film observes them with their parents and on their own as they undertake practical...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: What makes a boy or girl a loner? Can a child's future social life be predicted in his or her toddler years? How crucial is a sense of humor as children learn to make friends? This program examines the diverse ways and varying degrees of success in which youngsters build that all-important skill: getting along with others. Observing a group of 25 children who are now three years old, the film...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: This program explores the development of language during the first six years of life. While language development begins at birth with the sound of the human voice, caregivers need to provide the building blocks so that children can learn language skills during these first six years.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: The changes that occur during this pivotal time when intellectual development is closely accompanied by increasingly independent social activity and expectations.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: In her youth, Barbara Arrowsmith struggled with a severe learning dysfunction-until she designed a self-improvement regimen aimed at strengthening areas of her brain. This film profiles Arrowsmith, takes viewers inside the school she founded, and follows the progress of four cognitively challenged students enrolled there. Psychology and special education experts articulate diverging opinions of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Even a single day can bring changes in what a new baby can do. This informative program offers parents and caregivers ways in which to monitor a child's intellectual growth within a wide range of normal activity. A child development specialist, a pediatrician, and a parent explain what is going on in a baby's young brain and what can be expected to happen over the first five years of life.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: An overview of all stages of embryonic and fetal development, from fertilization to birth. Prenatal testing is also explored.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Is a baby actually learning something when he knocks down a stack of blocks? What happens in a toddler's mind when she "feeds" her teddy bear? Why does it take just as much work to bake an imaginary cake as a real one? This program explores the process through which young children begin to reason, plan, and solve both concrete and abstract problems. Emphasizing that babies are driven to make...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Investigates the development of individuality and gross motor skills along with the first stages of socialization and self-awareness.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Experts agree that the ways in which we develop in childhood have a strong effect on our later lives. This video depicts child development from the ages of 4 to 6, the years in which a child practices and fine-tunes motor skills and coordination, tests physical abilities, and experiences the onset of demanding physical, emotional, and social changes and challenges. Included is the first year of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This program follows the social development of two young children, Max and Ellie, from the ages of two to five. Examples of multiple attachment, language development, imitation and identification, cooperative play, self-awareness, gender identification, and social conformity are captured on film and clearly identified with onscreen labels as the children broaden their awareness of the world...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: From the very first moment after birth, babies can see, hear, smell, and taste-and, just as quickly, they begin putting these senses to work. This program depicts several newborns interacting with their surroundings and relying upon simple yet deeply ingrained survival strategies. Intimate, awe-inspiring scenes of these strategies in action show how brand-new infants prefer to look at faces and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Although children with birth disorders face special hurdles as they grow, today's parents of challenged or disabled children should be able to benefit from a variety of resources and support systems. This program depicts the difficulties and uncertainties of a couple whose first child was born with Down syndrome. Now expecting their second baby, the family undergoes increased stress as their...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Sometime during the close of the 20th century, free play vanished from the lives of American children. Today, a riptide of structured, highly competitive activities fills their waking hours, heightened by parental ambition and anxiety. This program examines the world of scheduled play-dates and ultra-organized sports, searching out the causes and implications of the hyper-managed childhood....
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: In the course of the first five birthdays, a child moves from being physically helpless to virtual mastery of the large and small motor skills. This program spotlights children at each stage of physical development between birth and five years of age. A pediatrician and a child development specialist describe what occurs during those formative years.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: For a child, play is serious fun. This program will help parents, teachers, caregivers, and students understand the complex functions of play. The relationship to objects, whether toys or everyday things, is explored through dozens of scenes of children interacting in classic situations. Discussion by experts and parents and video footage of children at play offer insights into games of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Is it healthy for parents to exercise complete control? Are rebellious children better equipped for the future? What measures should be taken to reign in unruly kids? This program looks at childhood battles for independence and the reasons why such struggles are psychologically necessary for children to undergo. Observing a group of 25 toddlers who have become self-aware and generally want...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007