Childhood Issues

Manning, Lee M. (19992000). Developing responsive multicultural education for young adolescents. Childhood Education Vol. 76 Issue 2. This article talked about the need for young teens to be introduced to different types of cultures and way to start the introduction. Some younger teens feel uncomfortable of threatened with people of different cultural characteristics or with people who speak a different languages. If these feelings are not dealt with at a young age they could influence friendships, peer interaction …

…behave in a certain way. This realization is made evident through jokes, family rejection, or violence against those seem to be gay. Though youths may know they are gay they may remain the "closet" for may years because of lack of role models or negative stereotypes. This is the time in an adolescent life when close relationships are formed and inner thoughts and feelings are to be shared without the fear of rejection and judgment.