infantilize

He cites a simple dichotomy which, on the one hand, opposes the sometimes saccharine humanism of the ostructuralistso (progressives) who tend to infantilize the African peoples by finding external justification for all the continentAEs ills and, on the other hand, the scorn of the oculturalistso (conservatives) who perceive them as communities permeated by a taste for sadomasochism and cynicism.

Even though she comes to recognize the immaturity of her beliefs as regards the coming to life of her ideas, she falls prey to the danger of repeating those mistakes as she teaches Toby to read, threatening to infantilize him in the process, because here is a much damaged boy.

The use of stuffed animals or dolls is not an attempt to infantilize the elder; some older adults are comforted by these objects.

Duane's most significant contribution to the scholarship is her insistence that rhetorical comparisons between children and other marginalized peoples put pressure on both revolutionary and infantilizing uses of the child victim; the radical potentials attached to childhood complicate attempts to infantilize minority groups, while the experience of marginalization diminishes the revolutionary potential of the child.

Using the word infantilize isn't snide, he insists; it's simply factual.

They insult us by treating us as powerless victims, they infantilize us, and they try to speak in our place while denying our reality because of their dogmatism.

"He believed we needed to build a healthy community and respect adult sexual decisions and not pathologize or infantilize gay men's sexual lives," Burns says.

Parents of children with chronic illnesses tend to infantilize them, and often we as doctors tend to focus on their chronic illness," she said.

Chapters include: "The Lego Model of Education"; "The Institution: Sorting and Ranking"; "The Testing Game"; and "Students: We Don't Have to Infantilize Them." Tripp is clearly angry at a system that is "satisfied to educate kids at the lowest level of learning and growth."

By situating his audience in a playground where droning imperatives are audible, Gilbert suggests that standard warnings and instructions infantilize their audience.

One of the film's emotional and psychological limitations is that the characters never delve into the possible reasons for the erosion of the erotic: Do they infantilize each other?

It is also a triumph of stamina and clarity over forces that have for a quarter-century endeavored to infantilize the Irish struggle as a comic strip slugfest--Punch and Judy with gelignite and rubber bullets.