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“Too many children are fearful… without respect for themselves or others.”<\/p>– Chave, E. (1937). Personality Development in Children<\/em>. University of Chicago Press, 111.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The theme of this project was fear, specifically in historical childhoods. It naturally follows that the literature that contributed to this project would share in this theme. All the literature fell into three sub-categories that contributed to this theme. The first set of scholarly books and articles dealt directly with the fears of historical children. These pieces discussed historical schools, factories, and other locales that contributed to the fears of historical children. This segment also addressed societal factors that contributed to children\u2019s fears.\u00a0Chave\u2019s book was especially useful in identifying social attitudes that did so. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“By the age of 3 years, most children exhibit fears of bodily injury, pain, natural phenomena, the dark, and animals.”<\/p>Sayfan, L., & Lagattuta, K. H. (2008). Grownups Are Not Afraid of Scary Stuff, but Kids Are: Young Children\u2019s and Adults\u2019 Reasoning about Children\u2019s, Infants\u2019, and Adults\u2019 Fears. Child Development<\/em>, 79<\/em>(4), 821.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

“… behavior problems included depression, suicidal behaviors, anxiety, fears, phobias, tics, bed-wetting, and low self-esteem.”<\/p>Fantuzzo, J. W., & Mohr, W. K. (1999). Prevalence and Effects of Child Exposure to Domestic Violence. The Future of Children<\/em>, 9<\/em>(3), 27.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The second set engaged with the fears of historical children indirectly. This segment of literature would examine modern instances of childhood fears, be it from physical violence or societal circumstances. As a group we extrapolated backwards what we could to make educated assumptions about the fears of children at the turn of the 20th century. Sayfan and Lagattuta\u2019s article explored modern fears of children, while Bartlett\u2019s chapter was exemplary in how specific locales influence children\u2019s fear.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The last set of literature dealt with the fears of the parents at the time. This literature focused on what parents were worried would harm or corrupt their children. Rozycki explored why adults decide to discipline children to steer them away from perceived immorality. All three sets shared a common theme of fear of violence perpetrated on the children, although from what source and what constituted violence differed greatly between modern writers, historical children, and historical parents. Abuse of children was present in several of the sources. More mundane fears were also present, ranging from dentists to ghosts.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Too many children are fearful… without respect for themselves or others.” – Chave, E. (1937). Personality Development in Children. University of Chicago Press, 111. The theme of this project was fear, specifically in historical childhoods. It naturally follows that the literature that contributed to this project would share in this theme. All the literature fell […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":757,"featured_media":0,"parent":4,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mcope-fears-part-two\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mcope-fears-part-two\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mcope-fears-part-two\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mcope-fears-part-two\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/757"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mcope-fears-part-two\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mcope-fears-part-two\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mcope-fears-part-two\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions\/102"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mcope-fears-part-two\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mcope-fears-part-two\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}