During the early childhood, not only the physical and
cognitive changes are crucial but also the emotional changes are crucial and
important. It is because during this period of time children develop many important
abilities such as to recognize
emotions, and regulate emotions. Next, I will present these important aspects that
children develop during the early childhood.
Recognizing emotions
Children start to
understand emotions during the early childhood because they understand that
certain situations are likely to cause particular emotions. Moreover, they
realize that facial expressions indicate specific emotions, and that the
emotions can be used to influence other’s emotions. Between 2 and 4 years old,
children increase the number of terms to describe emotions. Moreover, they learn
about the consequences and causes of their feelings. When they are 4-5 years
old, children increase the ability to reflect on emotions. In addition, they
understand that an event can cause different feelings in different people.
Regulating emotions
By the age of 5 years, children show a growing awareness that they need to regulate their emotions to meet the social standards. Thus, it is a very important ability that must be well developed because from this it is going to depend the correct development of the emotional intelligence which refers to the ability to monitor one's own and other people's emotions in order to use the emotional information to guide the thinking and the behavior. Therefore, it is very essential for children to develop this ability and parents can play an important role in helping their children to regulate their emotions by:
Teaching children the importance of values such as tolerance, generosity and respect.
Teaching children that emotions are very important and that occur within them every time something happens.
Helping children to identify the emotions (like anger, sadness, happiness, fear, frustration, surprise, love, shame, disgust, etc.) through the following questions: When do you feel anger? Where do you feel it? Why did you feel it? And how do you think you can manage this emotion?
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References:
Santrock,John W.Children. pp.316-318. Mc Graw Hill.USA,2010.
http://everydaylife.globalpost.com/emotional-development-early-childhood-years-1756.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_intelligence
Emotions are a crucial part of the psychosocial development of children, and they are close related to the thinking and behavior that kids from early childhood show on any environment where they are. As you said, parents play an important role on guiding children into the desire behavior, but also the teacher because children spend most of the timeat school.
ResponderEliminarTherefore, it is necessary to create a link between parents, teachers, and peers, so children can realize that there are some patterns that they must follow in order to reach what is expected from them on every place.
It might have been very good if you would have written what are some ways on which teachers, not only parents, can help students to regulate emotions on school.
Hi Yaneli, I liked all the information that you posted. I consider the three areas of development are important, but I think we need to pay extra attention on the psychosocial development, to be more presided, on controlling emotions. Caregivers and teachers should give children the confidence to explore and express their emotions. We live on a society that does not motivate to do this, especially to men. Although is important to identify and explore emotions, children must learn to control them in other to meet the social standards, as you said. On the other hand, what teachers can do with children that express their emotions too much? Like, if you tell a child something to improve his homework, but suddenly starts crying.
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EliminarWell, in this case that the child is presenting a problem like this one, first at all it is important to observe carefully the child’s behavior during the class and talk to his parents about how does he behave at home, so the teacher should try to discover if the child has low self-stem or anxious problems because most of the time children that cry when they do something wrong is because the feel inferior. Then, the best recommendation is to make an appointment for the child to go to the psychologist. However, if it is not possible, I have read that what you can do (as teacher) is to teach the child about “the positive self-talk” by making them to keep in mind phrases such as ‘I can do it’ ‘I just need to do my best’ ‘every day I am getting better and better’ ‘I deserve to be happy’ ‘I love a challenge’ and so on…
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