Television, DVDs, video games, the Internet, and smart phones all play a formative role in children's development.
Even if our sentimental memory of these heroic figures is nothing more than nostalgia for irrecoverable pleasures, their initial impact may be seen as having a formative influence on a child's expectations, as many commentators have thought.
His musical tastes had a formative influence on my children because, in retirement, he took on the task of driving them to school each morning.
As Brezhnev and his colleagues died or were pensioned off, they were replaced by men and women for whom the Secret Speech and the first wave of de-Stalinization had been a formative experience, and these 'Children of Twentieth Congress' took up the reins of power under the leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev and his colleagues.
Adolescence is a formative period during which children grow into their rightful place as full citizens and agents of change in their own lives and the lives of their societies.
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However, beginning in the 1950s, predominantly white American parents' adoption of Asian children played a formative role in making adoption global and transracial.
A Formative Evaluation of the Animated Children's Television Series Magic Journey, Kyrgyzstan, Belfast: Centre for Effective Education, Queen's University, Belfast.
At present, such data are not available, despite the fact that kindergarten teachers educate children at a formative time in their lives.
Part two of the interview sees the artist continue to insert odd tales into his biography, this time taking his interlocutor to the Murray Hill/King George Park and claiming that it was a formative space for him as a child.
Women married as children are at a formative stage of psychological development, and this type of IPV can result in devastating mental health outcomes for these women [ 32].
