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Toddler research paper? I'm desperate for some help!
19/F; This is my first year in college and I am assigned a research paper 6-8 pages long in APA format about Childhood. I can pick any topic within childhood, so I picked Toddlers. I figured it would be something with a lot of information about; I was wrong. I've look in books, internet, and even articles. I can't find anything.
Can you guys help me with a website that I might have overlooked, or maybe a topic within childhood that would have more information and interesting?
I'm not going to copy and paste; I just need some ideas, and facts; so I can use a work sited page.
Thank you so so so so much!
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Try switching the words a bit. I would look under topics in the category of "EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT", OR EARLY CHILDHOOD LEARNING. These areas generally would include the toddler years up through ages I would guess to be around ages 5 or a bit older.
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What exactly is it that you wish to study? Behavioural changes?
Toddlers, I would have thought, would have been a topic with alot of research done. Of course there is the infamous "terrible two" period of behavioural changes leading to the child being 'bad'.
Other ideas you can look at is the period of 0-24months maybe? In the period of 2 years, the child starts to walk, talk, etc and so that may be fascinating to look at.
Another fascinating time period can be puberty and leading up to it. This period not only brings on behavioural changes, but also physical changes (which can affect the child behaviour).
If you want to narrow in on something, how about focusing on precocious puberty? Its puberty that occurs as early as 2 years old! Now this would be interesting: focusing on how this affects the child directly, and how the reaction from their peers affects them. Because this is so rare (1 in 5000-10000 occurance), there is quite a bit of research done into it.
In regards to resources, have you tried to widen your google searches? e.g. "behavioural changes toddler" would be a good search entry as it includes only key words.
Have you found any reports on the issue? Even if you find one, you can look at their bibliography/foot notes and see what books and sources were used.
Have you asked library staff to search on their database for you? Maybe they have something which you've missed. Also, don't search just for the toddler period, but books on the whole childhood or life period may contain a bit of information about toddlers.
Have you searched for research on the APA website? When I tried searching for 'toddlers', nothing came up. I did search 'children' which gave a wealth of information. I don't know how much would be of use to you however. I'll paste a link at the end of my answer.
Also, maybe you could ask your teacher to see if they can recommend any resources?
Finally, look for journals on the issue, which contain informative reports and articles. Google "psychology journal" and go from there? You may find them online, or you may find them in large libraries.
The link to the APA search:
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Hope I helped, and good luck! :)
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First off if you reslly want to do well on this your better off relating your project to your toddler years. What kind of imformation about toddlers do you need? Do you wanna know how tall most are, how they behave around certain people/things, how they react to things, what the need or what they do? Try going to a park where you'll fine lots of little toddlers roaming the park. Interview them with the permission of the parent first then interview the parents. Things you relate to and real life information you find for your slef is best. If you can't do that then maybe google "toddlers."
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Anyway, good luck and I hope you do well :)
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