Like 17, or 13¾, or maybe even a preadolescent 11.
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Melissa Joan Hart was a very important figure in my preadolescent development.
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This is possibly because the drug is never prescribed to preadolescent boys. Ever.
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" Parents with younger preadolescent children should "embrace variety in the way your kids move.
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But these cultural activities are often denigrated as un-masculine by preadolescent and adolescent boys.
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"How do you know each other?" the relative asked, her preadolescent son by her side.
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All that was missing were the half-torah portion, fondue, and a lot more preadolescent hormones.
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It turns out that preadolescent and adolescent girls on both sides of the Atlantic dream of being mermaids.
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The chemistry between her and the staid, dependable Jeff Colby (John James) was intoxicating to my preadolescent self.
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Rather, Autry's girl-shy preadolescent fan base preferred that he reserve his displays of affection for his horse.
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A prodigy is defined as a preadolescent child who performs at an adult professional level in a demanding field.
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It's one of those images that make people pine for their preadolescent years, when pleasure could be taken simply, thoughtlessly.
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Classic preadolescent dresses, in Mr. Perry's mind and also in his polemics, came to symbolize the antithesis of the macho.
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But as a bespectacled preadolescent with early onset acne, I found these books an endless source of reassurance and hope.
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There is a growing body of evidence that American football is highly toxic for the brain, especially the preadolescent brain.
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There's nothing that speaks your sublimated, preadolescent desires out loud better than a candy heart that tastes like a cardboard box.
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Disorders of attention were once thought to be relatively rare by experts, affecting only an estimated 3 percent of preadolescent children.
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Overuse injuries, exemplified by the epidemic of serious elbow operations — known as Tommy John surgery — are rising among adolescent and preadolescent pitchers.
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It's for all the boys and girls who ever spent tedious preadolescent afternoons at soccer practice, thinking, "You know what would be cool..." TubiTV.
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Having been cast in the Harry Potter franchise as a preadolescent, the continuum between the private and the public is very real for him.
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I could let him revel in this preadolescent milestone where he gets to play Splatoon 2 all afternoon with no one yelling at him.
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Coupled with the urgent musical score—just listen to the opening of the Mute City track— F-Zero hit my preadolescent brain like a drug.
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It charts a relationship between two basketball players whose preadolescent Los Angeles friendship eventually blossoms — along with the potential of their basketball careers — into more.
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His stories informed the imaginations of many a preadolescent (including this reviewer), who thrilled in their discreet gore and nasty baiting of stuffy grown-ups.
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That's fitting for a franchise that is, after all, based on a children's cartoon designed primarily to sell a line of toys to preadolescent boys.
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Angelina is a 12-year-old competitive dancer, and canny to the ways in which technical acuity and preadolescent pliability can be combined to her advantage.
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We recalled our preadolescent battery at the Soldiers and Sailors Monument on Manhattan's Upper West Side, my imaginary Tom Seaver tossing fastballs to his imaginary Jerry Grote.
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For the first time in the play — and by then, it's nearing its end — Ms. Williams seems utterly credible as the frightened, determined preadolescent that Una once was.
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After surveying 400 black and white preadolescent children in the Midwest, the researchers found that the only kids who didn't experience lower self-esteem after watching television were white boys.
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Chewing gum and "foul language" were supposedly banned; I can now come clean about dropping obscenity bombs in a rebellious preadolescent fervor and sneaking in Bubble Yum on multiple occasions.
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Against these forces — the banal and the diabolical alike — "It" assembles a squad of early and preadolescent ghostbusters as varied as an infantry platoon in a World War II combat picture.
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Intrigued, I clicked and found myself following a redheaded preadolescent as she steps tentatively into her driveway, where her father is packing up an '80s-era hatchback for a big trip.
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"At heart, I am a man," said the petite-framed Mr. Sasaki, whose wardrobe of slim-fit tank tops, baggy jackets and skinny jeans evokes the fashion of a preadolescent girl.
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Conditions in the Moria camp have drawn condemnation for years, but the complaints have grown more urgent as the thinly spread aid workers have recounted assaults and suicide attempts, even by preadolescent children.
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When the girls kiss a second time, having overcome various other impediments to their happiness, including an abortive heterosexual marriage, they're adults, and soon they are raising a preadolescent girl of their own.
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His pride and sense of belonging end, however, when he is attacked, and his shoes are stolen by Flaco (Kofi Siriboe), who, in turn, gives them to his preadolescent son, Jeremiah (Michael Smith Jr.).
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A doctor told her that if she did not get over the debilitating nervousness she was then enduring as a preadolescent, she would never be able to hold a stressful job as an adult.
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"Oh my God, this is going to be amazing," a preadolescent wearing a gray hoodie exclaimed as he dashed in to The Yard, a 50,000-square-foot adventure playground on Governors Island in New York Harbor.
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When the elders of an impoverished Indian village convince Jones to travel to the fictional Pankot Palace to retrieve a prized lingam stone, the archaeologist's preadolescent accomplice Short Round (Jonathan Ke Quan) asks what they're looking for.
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The idea that preadolescent children are "too young to transition" is one that is so pervasive even other members of the LGBTQ community have pushed back against parents allowing their children to either medically or socially transition.
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Their twin preadolescent sons (Julian Grey and Ammon Ford) barely have personalities at all, but as the family arrives in Austria it seems possible that the audience will have a good time even if the characters don't.
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She also set aside the fable and talked about the preadolescent Powhatan girl who married a Jamestown settler, helped secure a tenuous peace in colonial Virginia and was ultimately sent to London, where she died at about 21.
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As an awkward, antisocial preadolescent in 1960s Long Island, Butler is coerced into "a binding and sickening pact" with her father; if she confers sexual arousal by sitting on his lap, he will drive her to oboe lessons.
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In Mr. Dixon's recollection, which some theater-industry friends have questioned, Rose not only had boys living with him (including a "sullen preadolescent") but also frequented a house of child prostitution, which employed boys as young as 10.
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Or perhaps they'll continue on as the book series has, until in the end there is nothing left but the boxcar children, forever preadolescent and precocious, solving mysteries in perpetuity with their immortal grandfather, as the world decays around them.
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Trans children develop their understanding of their gender the same way as their cisgender peersResearchers wanted to examine preadolescent children ages 3 to 12 years old because of their unique experience with gender, namely that they had lived as both the gender they were assigned at birth and the gender they actually are.
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In a paper that appeared this summer, a team led by Theodore Beauchaine of Ohio State University argued that preadolescent girls with a history of family trauma and attention-deficit disorder are at extremely high risk for later self-injury, and treating the A.D.H.D. as well as the traumatic stress would be a powerful prevention strategy, and could reduce later suicide risk.
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Self-Actualization for young people 11 to 13 years of age Preadolescent misbehavior is often a direct result of low self-esteem, lack of purpose or direction, pressure to succeed, traumatic experiences, unresolved problems, and/or boredom. Peer pressure is often the catalyst that turns these factors into misbehavior. Dealing with preadolescent misbehavior via the shape-up-or-ship-out approach can be ineffectual because it deals with the symptoms rather than the problems. In order to make a substantial impact on preadolescent misbehavior it is imperative to resolve the issues that cause it.
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He was survived by his wife, Frances Pelzman Liscio, a humor writer, two preadolescent children, both his parents, and a sister.
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Homesickness in preadolescent and adolescent girls: Risk factors, behavioral correlates, and sequelae. Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, 28, 185–196.Thurber, C.A. (1999). The phenomenology of homesickness in boys.
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Bartman (2001), 4 A bride's hair was parted with a hasta recurva or hasta caelibaris, a bent iron spearhead and crowned with flowers. In addition to ceremonies hairstyle defined the age of a woman. There was a marked difference in hair acceptable for preadolescent girls and sexually mature women. Preadolescent girls would often have long hair cascading down the back where as women would have equally long hair but it would be controlled through wrapping and braiding.
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'Dafna Lemish, Children and Television (Oxford 2007) p. 116 However, other research has suggested that sexual media influences on preadolescent and adolescent sexual behavior is minimal.Steinberg, L., & Monahan, K. 2010. Developmental Psychology.
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The prevalence of homesickness varies greatly, depending on the population studied and the way homesickness is measured.Thurber, C.A. (1995). The experience and expression of homesickness in preadolescent and adolescent boys. "Child Development, 66", 1162–1178.
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"The American Achievement Ideology and Achievement Differentials among Preadolescent Gifted and Nongifted African American Males and Females." Journal of Negro Education. 61.1 (1992): 45-64. sought to discover the differences in ideologies between male and female and gifted and nongifted African American students.
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Chaddock, L., Erickson, K.I., Prakash, R.S., Kim, J.S., Voss, M.W. (2010). A neuroimaging investigation of the association between aerobic fitness, hippocampal volume, and memory performance in preadolescent children. Brain Research, 1358, 172-183. Children with higher levels of fitness have larger hippocampi and perform better on a relational memory task.
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20 While known as preadolescent in psychology, the terms preteen, preteenager, or tween are common in everyday use. A preteen or preteenager is a person 12 and under. Generally, the term is restricted to those close to reaching age 12, especially age 11. Tween is an American neologism and marketing termLevasseur, Maïthé (2007-02-09).
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Being prepubescent is not the same thing as being preadolescent. Instead, prepubescent (and sometimes child) is a term for boys and girls who have not developed secondary sex characteristics, while preadolescent is generally defined as those ranging from age 10 to 13 years. Preadolescence may also be defined as the period from 9 to 14 years.William A. Corsaro, The Sociology of Childhood (2005) p. 191 and p. 124Donald C. Freeman, Essays in Modern Stylistics (1981) p. 399 The point at which a child becomes an adolescent is defined by the onset of puberty or the beginning of the teenage stage. However, in some individuals (particularly females), puberty begins in the preadolescence years. Studies indicate that the onset of puberty has been one year earlier with each generation since the 1950s.
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Cassedy was born January 29, 1930, in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated from Brooklyn College, and worked as a primary and secondary school teacher. Cassedy is known for her young adult novels. Her three novels Behind the Attic Wall, M.E. and Morton, and Lucie Babbidge's House feature preadolescent girls as protagonists, who use fantasy and play to improve their circumstances.
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Although the Looney books were fairly popular through the 1980s, commonly enjoyed by grade-school and preadolescent children, they are currently out of print. The most recent publisher of the series, Avon Camelot, was purchased by HarperCollins in 1999. The Looney series still enjoys a steady readership in the public library system. Used copies for purchase remain in circulation via the internet.
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Helena is a girl of Spanish descent ("white girl" in the book), who lives next to a river near the Amazon forest with her family of subsistence farmers. When she is a preadolescent (between 11 and 13 years old),Valero (1996), Introduction: Two Irreconcilable Worlds by Jacques Lizot.Valero (1996), p. 23. the family is attacked by native warriors ("Indians" in the book).
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Eastwood landed some professional acting roles during her childhood and preadolescent years, making an uncredited movie debut at the age of seven in Bronco Billy (1980). Her acting in the 1984 thriller Tightrope earned her a Young Artist Award nomination. She has also worked as a runway and magazine model in Paris, posing for several European fashion magazines and Vogue (U.S. edition).
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They found that AHN in male rats is increased with mild exercise by boosting synthesis of dihydrotestosterone in the hippocampus. Again it was noted that AHN was not increase via activation of the estrogen receptors. Androgen regulation decreases the likelihood of depression in males. In preadolescent male rats, neonatal rats treated with flutamide developed more depression-like symptoms compared to control rats.
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Humans can olfactorily detect blood-related kin. Mothers can identify by body odor their biological children, but not their stepchildren. Preadolescent children can olfactorily detect their full siblings, but not half-siblings or step-siblings, and this might explain incest avoidance and the Westermarck effect. Babies can recognize their mothers by smell while mothers, fathers, and other relatives can identify a baby by smell.
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Such interactions are believed to cultivate generosity. The second phase, ‘social apprenticing’, roughly corresponds with childhood. Its principal task is to recognize and rehearse social roles that pertain to four hierarchical spheres of life: self, household, network, and public. Adults assign responsibility to preadolescent and adolescent children including the care and socialization of younger children which serves the function of priming the emergence of social responsibility.
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Gale Group, 2000. access from Austin Public Library It is also described as "a preadolescent way to show contempt for adults' exploitation."Jack Forman, School Library Journal, cited in: "Louis Sacher, Biographical Essay," Authors and Artists for Young Adults, Volume 35. Gale Group, 2000. access from Austin Public Library A film named Johnny's in the Basement was planned, but it was canceled on May 2, 2003.
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The primary contributing factor to labial fusion is low estrogen levels. A vulva with low estrogen exposure, such as that of a preadolescent, has delicate epithelial lining and is therefore vulnerable to irritation. Conditions causing irritation, such as infection, inflammation and trauma, cause the edges of the labia minora to fuse together. The fusion typically begins at the posterior frenulum of the labia minora and continues anteriorly.
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In the 2010 remake, Nancy's last name is changed to "Holbrook", portrayed by Rooney Mara. Kyra Krumins also portrayed the character as a preadolescent in the film's flashbacks and dream sequences. She is also based on the franchise's other heroine Alice Johnson due to Nancy's job as a waitress. In this film, she is portrayed as an 18-year-old socially unavailable outcast who loves art.
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There is also an older video featuring a headspin "A Street Arab" Thomas A. Edison, INC April 21, 1898 in which a preadolescent boy, dressed like a street urchin, performs acrobatic stunts for the camera. The dancer, Olav Thorshaug, performed Norwegian hallingdans shows in the United States of America around 1910-1920, incorporating the headspin in his dance. The first part of a frozen headspin is known as a hatstand.
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When children first learn their language, they learn language in the way of their mother and/or primary caretakers. Vernacular reorganization occurs when children adopt a norm that is different from the one they have acquired. This happens in the preadolescent and adolescent years and is necessary for linguistic change to advance.Tagliamonte, Sali. Variationist Sociolinguistics: Change, Observation, Interpretation (pp 46-55, 83, 186-87, 248-75, 316-17, 340-41).
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Yuan instructs his preadolescent boy servant to carry an inebriated A home; the two men begin to meet more frequently and their friendship blossoms. Known for his generosity, Yuan gifts An with ten pairs of ivory chopsticks, red sandalwood prayer beads, and five thousand silver taels, the last of which An rejects. One month later, an official in Laoting has his house looted by bandits. Yuan is contacted to draft an arrest warrant for them.
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Gooch and Suhs, Kiss Alive Forever, p. 98. The crowds on this tour were much younger than previous audiences had been, with many preadolescent children in Kiss make-up with their mothers and fathers (who were sometimes wearing the make-up themselves) in tow at most concerts. Kiss themselves did little to dissuade this new fan base, donning colorful costumes that reinforced a cartoonish image for these younger fans.Leaf and Sharp, Behind the Mask, p. 100.
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Kramer convinces Elaine she can run the company by telling her how he became a dominating karate student. She impresses the employees with her commanding attitude and puts her idea for an "urban sombrero" on the cover. Jerry, having learned that Kramer's karate classmates are preadolescent children, suggests that Elaine visit Kramer at his class, hoping to wreck her newfound confidence. When she sees that Kramer has only been fighting kids, she angrily shoves him down.
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Afterwards, Jake discovers Allison's kidnapping was a feint to force Allison's father, a renowned scientist, out of hiding. Jake must not only save Allison's father, but ultimately battle an evil king who plans to lead a subterranean army in a battle against the people of Jake's world. The Japanese and North American versions of the game are mostly the same, except for the characters. In the original 'Magic John', the main characters are two preadolescent, Japanese- style cartoon friends.
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It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health is a children's book written by Robie Harris and illustrated by Michael Emberley. The purpose of the book is to inform preadolescent children of puberty by exploring different definitions of sex. It was first published in 1994 by Candlewick Press, and has since been updated with new information. Harris was prompted to write It’s Perfectly Normal by her editor so young individuals would understand aspects of sexual health.
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Wang Jun was born in the last years of the Tang Dynasty to Wang Feng (王豐), director of a local army band in Anyang, Xiangzhou (相州). Wang Jun's singing talents were obvious from a young age. As a preadolescent, he began serving the local Later Liang military governor Zhang Yun (張筠) as a singer. In around 915, facing an imminent attack from the Jin army, Zhang fled Xiangzhou to return to the capital Kaifeng.
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In 1980, a survey of 796 undergraduates, 15 percent of females and 10 percent of males reported some form of sexual experience involving a sibling; most of these fell short of actual intercourse. Approximately one quarter of these experiences were described as abusive or exploitative. A 1989 paper reported the results of a questionnaire with responses from 526 undergraduate college students in which 17 percent of the respondents stated that they had preadolescent sexual experiences with a sibling.
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While there is no gender difference in depression rates up until age 15, after that age the rate among women doubles compared to men. However, in terms of recurrence rates and symptom severity, there is no gender difference. In an attempt to explain these findings, one theory asserts that preadolescent women, on average, have more risk factors for depression than men. These risk factors then combine with the typical stresses and challenges of adolescent development to trigger the onset of depression.
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Harold Jones (11 January 1906 - 2 January 1971)Exposing Jack the Stripper: A Biography of the Worst Serial Killer You've Probably Never Heard Of p. 177 was a child murderer who committed the murder of two preadolescent girls in Monmouthshire, Wales in 1921 when he was 15. Jones was acquitted of the murder of his first victim, 8-year-old Freda Burnell, at Monmouthshire Assizes on 21 June 1921. Just 17 days later, he murdered an 11-year-old neighbour named Florence Little.
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Her body looks like a preadolescent girl. She is the president of the Invention Club at Taro's school, and is a genius with an IQ of over 200. Due to her insecurities at not being able to lead a normal life, she comes up with a scheme which would turn everyone in the world into perverts (if they were not already one). However, she is talked out of it by Taro, and is saved by him when the broken machine threatens to fall on her.
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Again BrdU was injected into both groups of rats in order to see if cells were multiplying in the living tissue. These results demonstrate how the organization of androgens has a positive effect on preadolescent hippocampal neurogenesis that may be linked with lower depression-like symptoms. Social isolation has a hindering effect in AHN whereas normal regulation of androgens increases AHN. A study using male rats showed that testosterone may block social isolation, which results in hippocampal neurogenesis reaching homeostasis—regulation that keeps internal conditions stable.
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They concluded that hippocampal volume was positively associated with performance on relational memory tasks. Their findings are the first to indicate that aerobic fitness may relate to the structure and function of the preadolescent human brain. In Best’s (2010) meta-analysis of the effect of activity on children’s executive function, there are two distinct experimental designs used to assess aerobic exercise on cognition. The first is chronic exercise, in which children are randomly assigned to a schedule of aerobic exercise over several weeks and later assessed at the end.
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Juan Puchades wrote that the band was characterized by its "vaporous languor". Pic-Nic's lyrics have been described as "preadolescent", and revolve around the theme of love, usually with a "melancholic touch". They are characterized by the use of metaphors, with sunrise and summer representing the beginning of love and, on the contrary, dusk and autumn evidencing the end of a relationship. Most of them were written by Jeanette with the aid of Rafael Turia, with a few compositions by Toti Soler and Vytas Brenner, as well as cover versions of other artists.
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In a contemporary review for The Village Voice, the music critic Robert Christgau gave the album an "A–" and praised Dupri for "avoiding BBD's girl-bashing and ABC's kiddie escapism" in his lyrics for the duo. He found the music "ebullient" and suited for Kriss Kross' "preadolescent tempos and timbres". "Jump" was voted the third best single of 1992 in The Village Voices annual Pazz & Jop critics' poll. Christgau, the poll's creator, named it the best single of the year in his own year-end list and also ranked "Warm It Up" at number four.
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People have a tendency to exhibit confirmation bias: they readily identify evidence in support of their views, but fail to consider evidence that might falsify their views. Providing opportunities for students to debate ideas with peers may foster the development of critical thinking skills by encouraging them to consider multiple points of view. Kuhn's co- authored monograph Strategies of Knowledge Acquisition explains knowledge acquisition as a process of coordinating new evidence with existing theories. In this study, the authors used a microgenetic method to examine strategies used by college students and preadolescent children in acquiring knowledge in physical and social domains.
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The majority of his review focused instead on the moral implications of the Stones performing sleazily, as he described, for an audience presumed to be mostly adolescent and preadolescent girls, leading him to condemn the band on "puritanical" grounds. "I can imagine how unpleasant a thing it would be to watch; hearing it is only slightly less so," he concluded. David Dalton, in his 1972 biography on the band, considers Got Live If You Want It! in a series of Stones albumsincluding December's Children (1965), Aftermath and Between the Buttonsto follow their American experiences and feature "an acceleration of R&B; and rock".
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She penned the script for her debut feature film Cuties in early 2017 taking her life experience as a refugee girl into account. The script eventually won the Sundance's Global Filmmaking Award in 2017. The film is based on a traditional Senegalese Muslim girl who is caught and torn between two contrasting fortunes, traditional values and internet culture while also speaking about hypersexualization of preadolescent girls. It premiered in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition sector of 2020 Sundance Film Festival on 23 January 2020 and won the Directing Jury Award praising the script of the film.
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Greater responsibility within the family can also appear, as middle children become responsible for younger siblings and relatives, as with babysitting; while preadolescents may start caring about what they look like and what they are wearing. Middle children often begin to experience infatuation, limerence, puppy love, or love itself, though arguably at least with 'girls carrying out all the romantic interest....preadolescent girls' romantic pursuits often seem to be more aggressive than affectionate.'Giselle Liza Anatol, Reading Harry Potter: Critical Essays (2003) p. 20 Preadolescents may still suffer tantrums at the age of 13, sometimes leading to rash decisions regarding risky actions.
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Blair Maynard, a divorced journalist in New York City, decides to write a story about the unexplained disappearance of yachts and other small boats in the Caribbean, hoping to debunk theories about the Bermuda Triangle. He has week-end custody of his preadolescent son Justin, and decides to mix a vacation with work, taking his son along. They fly from Miami to the Turks and Caicos island chain but, while on a fishing trip, are captured by a band of pirates. The pirates have, amazingly, remained undetected since the establishment of their pirate enclave by Jean-David Nau, the notorious buccaneer L'Olonnais, in 1671.
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Charlotte takes place in an alternate reality where a short-period comet called Charlotte passes near Earth once every 75 years. As this happens, it spreads dust onto the Earth, which causes a small percentage of preadolescent children who inhale the dust to manifest superhuman abilities upon reaching puberty. In Japan the story follows the protagonist Yuu Otosaka, a boy who awakens the ability to temporarily possess another person for five seconds. Although hoping to use his ability to fraudulently live a carefree high school life, he is unexpectedly exposed by Nao Tomori, a girl who can make herself invisible to a specific target.
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Unlike temperament, however, many researchers view the development of personality as gradually occurring throughout childhood. Contrary to some researchers who question whether children have stable personality traits, Big Five or otherwise, most researchers contend that there are significant psychological differences between children that are associated with relatively stable, distinct, and salient behavior patterns. The structure, manifestations, and development of the Big Five in childhood and adolescence have been studied using a variety of methods, including parent- and teacher-ratings, preadolescent and adolescent self- and peer-ratings, and observations of parent-child interactions. Results from these studies support the relative stability of personality traits across the human lifespan, at least from preschool age through adulthood.
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Preadolescent children continue to exhibit certain growth spurts in executive functions, suggesting that this development does not necessarily occur in a linear manner, along with the preliminary maturing of particular functions as well. During preadolescence, children display major increases in verbal working memory; goal-directed behavior (with a potential spurt around 12 years of age); response inhibition and selective attention; and strategic planning and organizational skills. Additionally, between the ages of 8 to 10, cognitive flexibility in particular begins to match adult levels. However, similar to patterns in childhood development, executive functioning in preadolescents is limited because they do not reliably apply these executive functions across multiple contexts as a result of ongoing development of inhibitory control.
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Michael Williams, a documentary filmmaker for the BBC, is working on a project involving depictions of Satan and demonic-inspired deaths in works of art. His wife perished in what was ruled an accidental fire, and he now raises his preadolescent daughter, Emily, with assistance from a devoted governess, Jill, both of whom are still haunted by the death. Michael's obsession with a specific painting sends him to Italy, and his family doctor suggests he take his daughter and governess along to help them recover. While packing for the trip, Emily finds a medallion that he had bought for his wife on a previous trip, and in turn he allows her to keep it.
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In Canadian ice hockey, junior league players are selected based on skill, motor coordination, physical maturity, and other individual merit criteria. However, psychologist Robert Barnsley showed that in any elite group of hockey players, 40% are born between January and March, versus the approximately 25% as would be predicted by statistics. The explanation is that in Canada, the eligibility cutoff for age-class hockey is January 1, and the players who are born in the first months of the year are older by 0–11 months, which at the preadolescent age of selection (nine or ten) manifests into an important physical advantage. The selected players are exposed to higher levels of coaching, play more games, and have better teammates.
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All three victims were preadolescent females who had disappeared from Rochester in the early afternoon on days of light or heavy rainThe Hillside Strangler: The Three Faces of America's Most Savage Rapist and the Shocking Revelations from the Sensational Los Angleles Trial pp. 255-256 and whose bodies were later discovered within adjoining counties. The body of each girl had been discovered either fully clothed or partially clothed close to an expressway at a location typically accessible by vehicle and each victim had evidently been thrown from or carried from a car to the location her body had been discarded. Each child was short in height,Nightmare in Rochester: The Double-Initial Murders p.
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John Money developed the theory of a lovemap, > "a developmental representation or template in the mind and in the brain > depicting the idealized lover and the idealized program of sexual and erotic > activity projected in imagery or actually engaged in". Many thought that the lovemap was normally fully developed by the age of 8, serving as a kind of sexual template through to the end of one's adult life. Money believed all paraphilias were caused by the formation of abnormal lovemaps during the preadolescent years and that such abnormal lovemaps can be formed by any number of contributing factors or stressors during this developmental period. Money also coined the term "autonepiophilia" meaning a "diaperism" or diaper fetishism in 1984 to describe the condition.
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Of the 'two major socializing agents in children's lives: the family environment...and formal educational institutions,'Dafna Lemish, Children and Television (Oxford 2007) p. 181 it is 'the family in its function a primary socializer of the child'David Cooper, The Death of the Family (Penguin 1974) p. 26 that predominates in the first five years of life: middle childhood by contrast is characterized by 'a child's readiness for school...being self-assured and interested; knowing what kind of behavior is expected...being able to wait, to follow directions, and getting along with other children.'Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence (London 1996) p. 193 Preadolescent children in fact have a different view of the world from younger children in many significant ways.
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Wade notices Clint has been scratched by Shelley and quarantines him; meanwhile, Doug deducing that Clint is only experiencing symptoms of stomach flu as the virus does not affect adults like it does children. The staff plans to head to the roof at the end of the school day to call out to the arriving parents for help, only to watch the first arriving parent to be killed by her child, before they are forced back into the school. As Wade is forced to kill Dink when he followed them into the auditorium, the group is joined by a teenager named Tamra, who they found was scratched by one of the infected kids. Doug concludes from his autopsy of Dink that the infected children are mostly brain dead and the virus only affects preadolescent children.
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Nippold's main area of research is language development in middle childhood through adolescence, especially with regards to the acquisition of complex forms of discourse, nonliteral and figurative language, and writing skills. One of her early co-authored papers "Metaphoric Understanding in Preadolescents Having a History of Language Acquisition Difficulties" received the Editor's Award in 1984 for best paper published in Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools. The results of this research study indicated that preadolescent children (mean age 10 years) who had been diagnosed with language impairments as preschoolers had persistent difficulties in understanding figurative aspects of language, such as metaphor. Another one of Nippold's co-authored papers "Idiom Understanding in Preadolescents: Synergy in Action" published in the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology received the Editor's Award in 2002.
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Hutchinson described an affidavit from the doctor who had treated Green during her commitment to the Menninger Clinic, which reported that she had been admitted on the basis of having either major or bipolar depression. Evaluations at the Clinic showed Green to be minimally able to cope with the world, and her treating physician reported that Green had been found to have the emotional capabilities of "a very young child", pursuant to unspecified "life experiences" she had undergone as a preadolescent. Hutchinson's diagnosis for Green was schizoid personality disorder. Hutchinson's opinion was that Green's intelligence had generally allowed her to compensate for her limited emotional ability in day-to-day life, but that the external stressors of her impending divorce and the interpersonal conflict between Michael and Tim Farrar had overwhelmed her ability to compensate.
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A number of studies have looked at the effects of sexual content in the media on preadolescent and adolescent sexual development. It has been put forth that watching a high level of television, in which there is a lot of sexually suggestive behavior, can lead to the initiation of sexual intercourse at a younger age than those who watch the least amount of sexually suggestive programming. In addition to this, adolescents who had been exposed to a high level of sexual content, would engage in a level of sexual activity expected by those up to three years older who watched less sexual content. It has been suggested that according to social learning theory, television is a method by which children can acquire behaviors, through observational learning, and that this is a potential method through which children are becoming increasingly sexualized.
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Pikachu's Global Adventure: The Rise and Fall of Pokémon stated that though the anime focused on Ash, Misty was a distinctly significant character especially to young female consumers, neither "butch" nor "dizzily feminine", seemingly "carefully constructed to appeal to preadolescent girls". It added that, unlike other aggressive female characters in the series, Misty did not sacrifice her femininity to succeed, making the character further popular with young American women, a contrast to Japanese children who focused more on the individual Pokémon species to identify with. In studies on the reactions boys and girls had to the concept of Misty as a heroine in the series, girls accepted it and were eager to associate themselves with the character, while boys attempted to belittle her efforts. On the other hand, children of both genders felt the character alongside Brock gave Ash a sense of identity and moral support, which researchers attributed to the concept of group identity.
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1996 In haunting photographic scenes of preadolescent girls, Gaskell alludes to well-known children's literature, such as Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, which can be found in two of her series: wonder (1996–97) and override (1997). Gaskell made her international debut with the twenty photograph series, wonder (1996–97), the first series Gaskell created after receiving her MFA at Yale University School of Art. wonder, which draws the viewer in with stained-glass coloration intensified by lamination, features two identically dressed Alices photographed together and separately and at oblique angles that recall the disorienting experiences of Alice in Wonderland. For example, in Untitled #1 of wonder, one of the Alices is pictured treading in a pool of her tears, "her body grotesquely distorted by the refraction of light on the water" and in Untitled #2, one Alice leans over the other, plugging her nose, seemingly about to perform mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
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"The Ed-touchables" and "Nagged to Ed" are the two segments of the series premiere episode of the Canadian-American animated television series Ed, Edd n Eddy that serves as a half-hour pilot episode for the show. It premiered on Cartoon Network in the United States on January 4, 1999, although it had originally been scheduled to air on November 7, 1998. The series follows Ed (voiced by Matt Hill), Edd "Double D" (voiced by Samuel Vincent), and Eddy (voiced by Tony Sampson), three preadolescent boys collectively known as "the Eds" and unofficially led by Eddy, who live in a suburban cul-de-sac. In "The Ed-touchables", the Eds try to earn money by hunting down the "serial toucher", who has been stealing the cul-de-sac children's belongings, while "Nagged to Ed" chronicles the Eds' first encounter with the obsessive Kanker Sisters, after they lure the Eds' into their trailer park home.
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Since the mid-1970s, Zucker has treated about 500 preadolescent gender-variant children to have them accept the gender identity they were assigned at birth until they are at an age he believes they may determine their own gender identity. Considerable disagreement exists between academic sex researchers, who say the sciences supports Zucker's approach, and activists who compare it to conversion therapy attempting to change gay men and lesbians into heterosexual men and women. Zucker says he tries to encourage children to accept their birth sex and supports them in transitioning should they still experience gender dysphoria into adolescence. For children assigned as male at birth, Zucker reportedly asked parents to take away toys associated with girls and to instruct their child not to play alongside or draw pictures of girls, although the parent that originally made this claim has more recently expressed that there was a miscommunication in the original interview and that such directives were to treat the social isolation that stemmed from her son's obsession with dolls.
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Dorothy in the film is also identified as being 18 years old, an appreciably older character than in the 1939 production, where Judy Garland's Dorothy is presented as a preadolescent, a girl just beginning to enter her teenage years. In an even more radical departure from the original book, the Tin Man is portrayed as a villain who betrays Dorothy, Scarecrow, and the Lion. Some elements of the narrative have their roots in earlier adaptations of The Wizard of Oz. For example, Prime Minister Kruel has a predecessor in King Krewl, the antagonist in the 1914 film His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz. The note explaining Princess Dorothea's true heritage is signed "Pastoria", a name used for the exiled King of Oz in the 1902 stage version of The Wizard of Oz and for the father of Princess Ozma in Baum's 1904 book The Marvelous Land of Oz, as well as in his later works relating to Oz. With regard to casting and personal relationships in the 1925 production of The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy Dwan was Larry Semon's fiancée at the time of its filming. The couple would marry upon the feature's release and remain together until Semon's death just three years later, in 1928.
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