CHILDRENS RIGHTS

Art. 3. Rights of the Child. - All children shall

be entitled to the rights herein set forth
without distinction as to legitimacy or
illegitimacy, sex, social status, religion,
political antecedents, and other
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(1) Every child is endowed with the dignity
and worth of a human being from the
moment of his conception, as generally
accepted in medical parlance, and has,
therefore, the right to be born
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(2) Every child has the right to a wholesome
family life that will provide him with love,
care and understanding, guidance and
counseling, and moral and material
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The dependent or abandoned child shall be
provided with the nearest substitute for a
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(3) Every child has the right to a wellrounded development of his personality to
the end that he may become a happy, useful
and active member of society.chanrobles
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The gifted child shall be given opportunity
and encouragement to develop his special
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The emotionally disturbed or socially
maladjusted child shall be treated with
sympathy and understanding, and shall be
entitled to treatment and competent
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The physically or mentally handicapped child
shall be given the treatment, education and
care required by his particular
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(4) Every child has the right to a balanced
diet, adequate clothing, sufficient shelter,
proper medical attention, and all the basic
physical requirements of a healthy and
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(5) Every child has the right to be brought up
in an atmosphere of morality and rectitude
for the enrichment and the strengthening of
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(6) Every child has the right to an education
commensurate with his abilities and to the
development of his skills for the
improvement of his capacity for service to
himself and to his fellowmen.chanrobles
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(7) Every child has the right to full

opportunities for safe and wholesome
recreation and activities, individual as well as
social, for the wholesome use of his leisure
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(8) Every child has the right to protection
against exploitation, improper influences,
hazards, and other conditions or
circumstances prejudicial to his physical,
mental, emotional, social and moral
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(9) Every child has the right to live in a
community and a society that can offer him
an environment free from pernicious
influences and conducive to the promotion of
his health and the cultivation of his desirable
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(10) Every child has the right to the care,
assistance, and protection of the State,
particularly when his parents or guardians
fail or are unable to provide him with his
fundamental needs for growth, development,
and improvement.chanrobles virtual law
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(11) Every child has the right to an efficient
and honest government that will deepen his
faith in democracy and inspire him with the
morality of the constituted authorities both in
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(12) Every child has the right to grow up as a
free individual, in an atmosphere of peace,
understanding, tolerance, and universal
brotherhood, and with the determination to
contribute his share in the building of a
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5 Stages of Human Brain

Development
Stage 1: 0 to 10 months
Neurons and connections growing.
Pregnant woman should stay as stressfree as possible, take folic acid, B6 &
B12, stimulate this young developing
brain with sounds and sensations.
Mother should avoid toxins, cigarettes,
heavy metals, alcohol, drugs.
Stage 2: birth to 6 years
Development of voluntary movement,
reasoning, perception, frontal lobes
active in development of emotions,
attachments, planning, working

memory, and perception. A sense of

self is developing and life experiences
shape the emotional well being.
By age six, the brain is 95% its adult
weight and peak of energy
consumption.
Caregivers need to provide nurturing
environment and daily individualized
communication. Negative or harsh
treatment may come with emotional
consequences in the future.
Stage 3: 7 to 22 years
The neural connections or grey
matter is still pruning, wiring of brain
still in progress, the fatty tissues
surrounding neurons or white matter
increase and assist with speeding up
electrical impulses and stabilize
connections. The prefrontal cortex is
the last to mature and it involves the
control of impulses and decisionmaking.
Therefore, teenagers need to learn to
control reckless, irrational and irritable
behavior. Avoiding drugs, alcohol,
smoking, unprotected sex and
substance abuse.
Stage 4: 23 to 65 years
Finally, the brain reaches its peak
power around age 22 and lasts for 5
more years. Afterwards, its a downhill
pattern. Last to mature and the first to
go are the brain functionality of
executive control occurring in the
prefrontal and temporal cortices.
Memory for recalling episodes start to
decline, processing speed slows and
working memory is storing less
information.
Best approach is to stay mentally
active, learn new things, stay
physically active and eat a very
healthy diet. Avoid toxins, cigarettes,
alcohol and mind-altering drugs.
Stage 5: older than 65 years
Brain cells are lost in the critical areas
such as the hippocampus responsible
for processing memories.
Learn new skills, practice mediation to
promote neutral emotions, exercise to
improve abstract reasoning and
concentration.
Avoid stress or incorporate stress
reducing mediation and exercises.

Eat a healthy diet with foods to

nourish ones level of dopamine.

Factors that Affect Motor

Development in Children
(1) Genes - Children get 'genes' for all the
developments from their parents. It has been
seen motor development of a child follows
the same pattern as of his parents.
(2) Nutrition - Nutritious food promotes good
motor development. Sensory motor
development is dependent upon nutrition
that the child gets to a great extent. Children
get stronger and development is good if they
get nutritious food.
(3) Immunisation - If mother and child both
are immunized at a proper time it leads to
good sensory motor development.
(4) Environment - Encouragement, love and
security help the child to take risk to explore
fearlessly and to know more about
environment which leads to a better sensory
development.
(5) Opportunities - Children who get more
opportunities to do more activities, motor
development is better in them. Opportunities
to play to gain knowledge give a better
chance of developing sensory motor
activities.

Factors that Affect Physical

Development of Children
(i) Heredity: Development depends upon the
potentials that child gets from his parents.
These potentials decide the limit of
development of a child, e.g., height, weight,
body structure, etc.
(ii) Nutrition:The nutrition that child gets
before birth or after birth affects his
development. If the child gets good nutrition
he develops well and completes his
developmental tasks. His bones, muscles and
internal organs also develop well.
(iii) Immunization at proper time saves the
child from various diseases: This helps the

child to grow properly. Children who suffer

from infectious diseases become weak and
their body development lags behind.
(iv) Proper ventilation: Sunlight and pure air
helps in good body development. Sun rays
are good source of Vitamin D which makes
bones of the child strong.
(v) Endocrine gland: Hormones help in the
development of the child. Secretions of
thyroid and parathyroid glands help in the
growth and development of bones and body.
Hypo secretion of pituitary gland makes the
child midget and hyper secretion makes the
child abnormally tall. Thyroxin secreted by
thyroid gland controls the physiological
activities of the body.
(vi) Prenatal period:
Health of the mother, her nutrition,
immunization, her mental state affect the
baby in the womb as the body of the fetus
develops in the womb of the mother. If the
mother is healthy and tension free then the
development of the baby will be good. Even
after birth such babies grow well.
(vii) Family:
Family where the development of the baby
takes place directly affects the development
of the child. It provides proper atmosphere,

opportunities, encouragement to the child to

explore his environment so that he develops
himself through this exploration.
(viii) Sex difference:
At the time of birth the rate of physical
development is more but it is different in
boys and girls. In the beginning bones and
muscle development is better in girls but till
the end of childhood boys also grow and are
ahead of girls. Sexually girls mature faster.
(ix) Intelligence:
It has been seen that intelligence affects the
physical development. Children who are
intelligent grow fast physically and children
with low intelligence achieve their
developmental tasks at a slow speed.
(x) Socio-economic status:
Socioeconomic status of children affects the
all round development of the child. Families
which can provide all the facilities like good
nutrition, clothes, hygienic conditions,
healthy recreations, etc. help in maintaining
good health of the children so that they can
develop good physique. Parents of low
income group cannot provide good facilities
to their children and the health status of the
children are not good as they lag behind in
physical development.