Expression of kids’
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but of course, they have never failed to imitate them.
A Feeling is whatever happening but it not every time develop from inside. Many times, feeling adopt by outside. Just recall how often we use “ouch”, in front of a child, then they do the same afterwards. Similarly, in jolly way, how frequently we pull someone mobile to read text or push to go same we see with child who surrounded by us. At times, children either adopt feelings or form their own feelings but don’t know how to represent them adequately. It’s up to the parent, teacher, or caregiver to train children in how to identify, name, interpret, and use in positive perspective. The purpose of feeling is to make sense in a child what’s going either inside or outside of child. So, it’s very vital to teach expressing and identify feeling positively which also called, emotions then kids will learn a new language for self-expression which turns later towards emotions.
The famous man, Gleicher says, the greatest gift you can give your kids is the ability to experience, recognize, and deal with emotions — it will be their key to resilience later in life. Now a question arises how it can teach a little one about emotions. So, there are several techniques to express and identify the emotion of a child. Like, tune in to cues. If a little one cannot express feelings accurately. He may show by tune of body language, behavior or just listening to a child can give signal of emotion. It is very vital to explore what’s hidden behind the behavior of a child. Sometimes might be child confused to label the feeling. As an elder role, name the feeling like anxious, surprised, sad etc. and help to label by own. Rephrasing and repetition are the best strategy for learning to everyone.it same helps in case of child. Another way to give opportunity to our kiddo’s is identifying feeling in others by his favorite cartoon, favorite friend, favorite books and so on. Finally, the best way to express emotion in a child is to praise the child when he tries. For example, when he is crying, first listen instead of saying you can’t cry. Never assume by self.
In my view if a child starts to understand and be able to respond, caregiver needs to just teach basic four emotions as well coping techniques. Such as anger, pain, fear, and jealousy. It helps later in age to deal with numerous issues and make a better human being. Anger might be in response to frustration, in response to less attention, in response to fighting, in response to displeasure, in response to tantrum or anything else, but it is a very strong feeling. The best way to cope with anger is empathy, eye contact and thinking of stimuli which can trigger a child. Another major emotion is pain. A pain could be when a child misses someone badly or a child hurt something badly. According to many psychologists a child cannot label this feeling easily so for coping strategies it’s better to divert a mind by giving proper instruction. In this emotion it’ very important to think before saying anything to a child.
Fear is a third emotion to educate a child. Fear is not born with a child but due to anxiousness it can be with child such as separation of child, any shouted environment, anything afraid heard on TV, any dark area and so on. For coping this emotion acting out on situation, reading scary book by guiding as it is very crucial in older age so need to deal it intellect. The last one emotion is jealousy. It refers to a green-eyed monster. It’s an emotion easily felt and often expressed which starts from age of 3 month when mom holds a stranger’s baby, or a sibling gets presents for his birthday — but the concept of jealousy is tricky to explain. While it’s typically described as feelings or thoughts of insecurity, fear, or concern over a relative lack of possessions or safety, it can also be the feeling of inadequacy, helplessness, or resentment.
Lastly, before ending my article I appreciate if u think a while any child can express same feeling as an adult can do. Is it possible? On a fact note, there are lots of technique such as emotions flash cards, fabulous movies on emotion, wonderful rhyming, games and so on but as a caregiver need to more detailed, presentable, and perfectible in expressing emotions because child most of the time intimate their elders. A famous man said, Adults are just outdated children.
