Keeping Toddlers From Developing Negative Age Stereotypes By Visiting Nana
Aug 22nd, 2009 | By buddy1 | Category: 35, Health & Wellness News, Mental HealthIt’s easy to list the negative stereotypes attributed to the elderly: they are considered forgetful, hard-of-hearing, absent-minded and confused. What’s unsettling is that those stereotypes can be present in children as young as two or three. Research conducted by the University of Alberta’s Sheree Kwong See, a psychology researcher, has identified that those stereotypes exist in some children at that age, which could adversely affect them when they are older.
