Children’s Emotional Development
Questions:
What is are important guidelines for helping parents deal with an aggressive, emotional child?
Is it possible for calm parents to have bad tempered child?
Is there any evidence that shows the importance of emotional development in the first three years of a child’s life?
Does watching an emotional scene on TV affect the emotions of a child?
As we have heard about the “terrible 2s” or the “terrible 3s”, are tantrums considered normal for those ages?
What activities between parents and their child can be used to develop an emotional bond?
Will the type of parents affect a child’s emotional development?
Who affects a child’s emotions the most?
How do siblings affect a child’s emotions?
Are teachers and friends at school important to a child’s emotional development?
Purpose:
Since I was a young child, I was surrounded with many children. I had siblings, relatives, and neighbors who were of a similar age. When I was in high school, I started teaching and helping my nieces and nephews with their homework. This was the beginning of when I wanted to become a teacher as an adult. Control of emotions is one of the most important things related to children that I would like to research. When I worked as teaching assistant, I had observed children exhibiting various emotional states. Some of my students had emotions that were intense, strong, and aggressive. Most of these students were not able to focus on something and were unable to wait until a session to be over without disturbing other classmates. Whereas well-behaved children seemed to be able to focus and pay attention when teacher was lecturing. These observations have led me to think about the importance of environment and family on the emotional development of children.
Thought Narrative:
The first three years of a child’s life is considered to be the most crucial period of their emotional development. During this period of time, children learn, grow, and develop a substantial set of effective gestures. Generally, children assemble their habitual reactions before they begin using language expressions. There is enormous variation between the ability of different children to express, control, and understand their emotions in the same way as children vary in all their characteristics and activities. For toddlers and infants, they communicate to people through their emotions. Effective expression is the major method of communication during that period of a child’s life. This form of expression literally lasts throughout one’s lifetime, despite the more advanced capabilities people acquire with time.
Working Bibliography:
Children’s Emotional Growth: Adult’s Role as Emotional Archaeologists; by Dettore, Ernie
Development in Infancy: An Introduction by Michael E. Lamb, Marc H. Bornstein, Douglas M. Teti
Understanding Attachment: Parenting, Child Care, and Emotional Development, by Jean Mercer
Is Socio-Emotional Development Correlated with Cognitive Development among Children? by Coskun, Kerem; Coskun, Meral
Stability and Continuity in Normal Emotional Development between Infancy and Early Childhood: Longitudinal Research