![]() ![]() ![]() Pre-Adolescence (12 to 16 years): children begin to develop reason and are able to comprehend more abstract ideas.Childhood (0 to 12 years): children are guided by simple impulses and simply react to their surroundings.Rousseau’s work is credited as being the first developmental account of childhood via his emphasis on maturation and stages of development: Rousseau also believed that children needed protection from child labor and negative influences within civilization. He believed that humans were born pure until one’s interactions with the environment caused negative effects on one’s development. Rousseau contended that children were inherently innocent (not sinful, as Hobbes believed), weak, and easily tempted. Photo of a painting by Bouguereau: “L’Innocence”ĭuring the eighteenth century, Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s views started to change parenting practices. Diana Lang Jacques Rousseau and Childlike Innocence Figure 1. ![]()
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