Early Childhood Education

Questions for Child Education

1. Why is the title of the movie, "I, Not Stupid"?
2. In what ways do adults in that movie fail to understand children?
3. What lessons have you learned from that movie?
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Tackling stress in children

In addition to measures to prevent, train and control stress, as parents, we also must be willing and able to cope for the stress experienced by children is not a protracted and prolonged the depression. We can do the following associated with maintaining physical condition, emotional stability and creating a comfortable environment.

     * Give your child a good nutritional intake and nutritious for the body is not weakened. Set the pattern for her break with sleep enough brain cells to relax and stimulate plant growth hormones mood is also the spirit. Both of these very helpful staff and emotional stability of children in the face of stress.
     * Take and create quality time for children. Take advantage of as narrow as any time to communicate with the child every day. Ask your child's condition, listen when he told me to express the problem at hand, give a positive response and leave when he wrote what he thought and felt by writing a diary. This will help reduce stress levels shot can cure it because he was very meaningful to parents.
* Create a comfortable atmosphere at home and prepare a supportive environment for child development, so that he can play, imagination, develop creativity, and express their artistic talents, like music, drawing, writing, dancing and berkerasi with paper or clay. Such arts can be therapeutic and health intelligence.
* Help your child to learn to identify various stress reduction strategy. For example, taught her how to ask for help if there is someone who bothered him, taught him to be open by saying what he likes and dislikes or leave the people who can disturb the comfort
* Give children the knowledge and understanding to recognize emotions, and naming the forms of emotions or feelings, and accept and express it appropriately. This can help manage emotions and to channel stress
* Teach your child to transfer control strategies to divert it to the stress of other circumstances, such as imagining the preferred places to be visited and menghayal visiting these places. It is also befungsi sebagaai steps to train children deal with stress.
 
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Preventing stress in children

Before your child is stressed, it would be nice if the parents are always trying to establish and maintain close relationship with the child in harmony, by doing the following things.

* Communicate with children actively in many ways is a great way to learn and understand many things about children. What he was feeling, what problems he faced, and what ideas he wanted to spend. Being an active questioner and listener and responship is key to communicate with your baby. Eat together, talk or spend time playing with him and with him working on tasks / homework, we can know and understand the changes in attitude or behavior of the child, and the development of our baby's condition. This is in addition to maintaining inner closeness and trust, can also become a habit of children to communicate emotional and intellectual experience of their parents. By ensuring a smooth communication with the child, the likelihood of children experiencing stress can be prevented

* Be open to children, by communicating the things in the family in proportion. New things in the family can cause stress in children, such as the birth of her sister or the presence of a new family member. It is important for parents to far-away days convey this to children, and mentally prepare children by giving understanding and insight that can make them accept the changes. Give children the opportunity to ask about this in accordance with his curiosity, so that parents can assess the extent of understanding and comprehension of children on this subject. By doing this, the possibility of children exposed to stress can be prevented.
 
* Do not burden the child with the problems faced by adults or the elderly. Give children an understanding of the purpose of family life, and ssesekali invite children to discuss about the difficulties faced by families with a friendly and fun attitude, and the way that children can understand.


* Do not burden the child with too many demands and excessive, for example, must always be the class champion, must excel in certain areas and should be number one in all respects, will only make it overwhelmed and depressed. They are not perfect, has a weakness, a lack which we must accept. Give it the freedom to find comfort in themselves and their activities. Do not be too excessive burden by requiring the child to follow a lot of activities such as tutoring or courses outside of school. Schools and learning materials in schools, and school work (PR) was already quite heavy and solid. If want to give lessons, provide in accordance with their interests and talents so that he feels comfortable and not feel forced. Assist and provide little opportunity to learn to manage their time well

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The negative impact of stress in children so seriously. If we as parents do not immediately take steps to prevent, mitigate and prepare well-trained children's ability to deal with stress, the stress can alter and grabbed the beauty of childhood. This can influence the ability and success in socializing with his friends and the environment, reduce power performance (in school), and difficulties in developing their talents and interests as one important factor in its development process and personality.
A study showed that the negative effects of stress is more common in children aged under 10 years who has a difficult temperament and children born prematurely. Thus, the age of the children are very susceptible to stress, so that new things that could potentially stressful experiences a negative impact on them.

How do we overcome this? To help cope with stress in children, proper control strategies are needed from adults, especially parents and family. This certainly should be based on age and developmental level. Therefore, we need to consider strategies or measures will we do with children's ability to understand the situation they were experiencing. Experts said children that there are many ways that can be done to prevent and reduce stress in children. These methods originated from the level of prevention, learning and exercise control, to the reduction of stress in children.
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At the present time, ability and skills of parents are also facing stress in children become not only important (Important), but it is very important and quite urgent (urgent). Stress is a disposition that can be experienced by anyone and can not always be avoided. The ability and readiness to deal with stress in children and adults are clearly different although the same problems that caused it. Children certainly need the help that is not just moral support. They need love, affection, attention, guidance and the role of parental involvement to strengthen mental resilience in addressing and solving problems, including stress.

Positive Impact
Stress the positive impact is generally a normal part of the learning process in the lives of children every day. For example, when children follow a particular race, he will learn the meaning of competition in achieving success. Stress experienced in competitions such as this can be directed to motivate the spirit of learning, practicing and working hard to reach victory, and to train children's mental readiness to face the failure and accept defeat. Another example, stress experienced by children when learning to ride could be developed to motivate businesses to quickly and keinginanya can. Cycling also teaches children about the techniques of speed and balance, as well as learn about the pain of falling then rising to re-learn from mistakes when he fell earlier. Forms of stress such as this provide positive stimulation for the development of abilities and intelligence as a form of learning challenges, and problem solving skills training. Stress in this level is certainly not part of a deep sense of distress that could disrupt its development.

Negative Impact
Stress in children is allowed to continue and prolonged can cause harmful effects. In the short term, negative impact of stress is to disrupt and damage the child's emotions are characterized by irritability, difficulty concentrating, and experiencing anxiety that result in frequent wetting. The long-term impact is to make children experience chronic sress and depression in childhood. Both of these are very dangerous for health and mental development of children. Prolonged stress makes the quality of life of children so vulnerable because the stress is very risky lowered immune system (immune system) are useful in fighting diseases and infections. Stress also can damage the digestive system, inhibit the growth and physical development, disrupt and damage the emotional stability, and disrupt the development of brain cells.

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