Consequences of stress in child's development

For this assigment, will talk about racism. Growing up, I went to a girl only catholic nun school. There was about 20 of us from the first graduating class since it was a very brand new school. There was a problem, perhaps one that is was not put to much attention when I attended. The class started to get divided into the ones that were popular and the ones that were not. The popular girls were the ones who had colored eyes, blond, light skin, better homes, lived in good neighborhoods, high status, etc. The rest of us came from middle to low income families, our parents worked very hard to get us a better education in a good school since they had to pay for it. There was a particular nun whom she would always listen and do what the popular girls said, hanged out with them and so on. There was an occasion where there was going to be a play put together for our families for mother's day. This nun had put this girl in charge to get the girls who had good voice in to the play and maybe some others one t do something else, so of course as you can imagine we all wanted to be part of it, me and several girls practiced so hard and tried to do the best so we can get picked. Well, she ends up picking of course her friends first, then she picks only one more and tells us that we are not good enough and we sang horrible. We became very distant and started to have anger towards them, it was devastating for us at that time. We brought it up to the nun and nothing was done. Many things like this happen for many more months, so we started believing that because of our status and the way we looked, we were just not good. Then, a teacher came to work there, I can say she was what we needed, she treated all of us as the same no matter where you came from and what you looked like. This teacher was not liked very much by the popular girls but for us she was our role model. Neath less say, looking back to those teen years, it was tough to deal with that. You start doubting yourself, trying to look different just for the fact that you want to fit in. Many of us deal with racism one way of another no matter who you are, is very important to educate and guide our new generations with eyes of equality and compassion.

Poverty affecting children in Peru is raising. There is 28 million people living in Peru, were 38 % is made up of children between the ages of 0 to 17 and 68% of them live in poverty (UNICEF, 2007). Poverty affects children's nutrition due to lack of food and nutrients their body needs to grow and develop normally as they grow it also affects their schooling performance, if they are lucky enough to attend a public school safe and good enough for them to learn. Sometimes poverty becomes part of their life cycle as family generations have long live this way. Every region in Peru is different but the most troubled are in the highlands area of Peru.

Reference

UNICEF (2007) Situation of children in Peru. Retrieved from

www.unicef.org/peru/spanish/Folleto_ing_correc_1.pdf