Emotions. What it is?
If to speak with unscientific language, the internal state, reflecting the relationship between a person and everything that happens around him, is called emotion. It is believed that human behavior is determined by emotions, often they drive them. For example, fear and anxiety cause a defensive reaction, boredom and anguish induce people to abandon some uninteresting occupation, to start looking for a more fascinating one, which will cause a rise in mood and relieve fatigue. But apart from the external impact on the emotional state of a person, there is also a feedback. We can also influence the people around us with our positive, neutral or negative emotions.
Emotional development of the child
Already from the first days of life the child receives certain emotions from the surrounding world, primarily from parents. These first smiles, laughter, joy in the eyes of parents determine the further healthy development of their baby. Positive emotions help to develop memory, speech, and movement. In response, you get a smile or cry from the child, realizing that, thus, your baby communicates with you. Very important is the manifestation of the positive emotions for the further normal development of the child.
For timely development, it is not enough just to provide good physical conditions - proper hygienic care, healthy feeding, sleeping at certain times - it is important to support the baby always in a cheerful mood when he is awake. You can play with him or just communicate. But do not forget about the comfortable conditions for the game - more space, toys by age, development games.
You can notice how every day, developing, a child acquires new features in both the intellectual and psychic realm, and in the emotional. His interaction with others is changing, the child begins to more consciously show his emotions, sometimes tries to control them. But do not forget that the development of a healthy emotional state is impossible without the participation of parents. Today, communication with parents and peers is increasingly replaced by a computer or television. Many parents simply do not come up with the idea that it is emotional interaction with children that can enrich their emotional sphere and influence the child's further development. Parents are very busy or just "once", but then they will not have to wait for their child to be more sympathetic and attentive to the feelings of others.
What features are incorporated in the emotional development of preschool children?
Do you know that a very small child responds to the world in a state of affect? Let's first understand the definition of this word. An affect (from Latin passion, emotional excitement) is called a violent psychological reaction, strong and rapidly developing, accompanied by profound experiences, especially a bright external manifestation, a decrease in self-control and a narrowing of consciousness. The affect is very difficult to suppress, since it is manifested against the will of man, and it is impossible to control them, unlike feelings.
The thing is that the manifested emotional behavior in the child is unconsciously, as it happens in adults. The child reacts to everything that is happening around, emotionally. In this case, a sudden laughter, immediately changing to crying, should not surprise you - emotions can abate and instantly flare back. This feature of emotional development in children. Therefore, he can not, for example, hide his emotions, he has not yet learned to control them. All the emotional experiences of your child - as in the palm of your hand! Adults are always surprised by the spontaneity of children, their sincerity. But by the age of four or five, the children can show not only positive emotions, from time to time they show their irritability, anger and discontent. But this is a well-grounded change in the emotional mood, because it is a reflection of certain actions that have a specific motivation. So if the child's mood suddenly changes - look for the reason.
It happens that parents are trying too hard to "impose" a positive attitude of the child to everything that is happening and do not allow negative emotions to manifest. Instead of looking for the reason for a change in mood - the appearance of irritation or a whim, some parents can even scold their baby. But then the adult becomes a little unreasonable child, when his attitude towards his child arises spontaneously, depending on the mood of the adult. The manifested emotions of parents in such cases should be only a form of the upbringing of the baby, when it is necessary to be sensitive to the chosen forms of emotional impact.
Use the games
The world around us is comprehended by the child through clear forms and bright images, features of things that are around. If adults seem to understand everything and usual, then some properties and phenomena produce the most vivid impression on the world of the child. Is there an effective way to influence the emotional development of a child? Yes there is. And this way - the game. But this topic is already a separate article.