This assignment aims to identify how attitudes towards studying children have changed over time, while also identifying three key principles to aspire to when implementing such research. A range of theoretical perspectives and methodologies will also be explored, with consideration of children's roles and involvement evident throughout. Research on children is by no means a new phenomenon, but there has been a considerable paradigm shift that has led to an increasing body of research. carried out “with” children rather than “on” children (Christensen and James, 2008). This may be due to the growing interest in children's rights to participate (James and Prout, 1997), which, as O'kane (2008) suggests, occurred in the late 1980s. It is, however, It is difficult to determine whether this paradigm shift occurred as a result of natural changes in researchers' attitudes or whether it is a direct consequence of new legislation (2008). At the same time, in 1989, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) (CRC) was implemented, giving children the right to participate and be heard in matters that affect their lives. This difficulty is evident in Schaffer (1990), who suggests that theories of development have strongly influenced policy, thus indicating that researchers' knowledge of children and childhood develops policy attitudes and change. In contrast, O'Kane (2008, p. 125) states that “the changes reflect a recognition of children's rights”. Views about childhood have changed and continue to change (Waller, 2009). The contemporary view that children are empty vessels (Skinner, 1974) is ignored because children are no longer seen as passive recipients in an adult world (O'Kane, 2008...... middle of article...... exist as if the researcher allowed the cost to the individual to be weighted by the benefit to society (ref) the entire study would be compromised, the researcher and his research losing their validity to eyes of others (Green, 2003) In conclusion, this mission identified that attitudes towards children's study have changed and continue to change, although it is evident that attitudes are still dominated by one perspective and that some changes have been adopted more than others children now have a participatory role in research, but it also identifies that participation is only possible if researchers fully view children as competent and aspiring beings. to the key principles of consent, listening and responding to children and adhere to ethical codes of conduct..