Understanding Child Psychology

Posted October 20th, 2009 by

Talking about child psychology, Erikson’s Developmental Psychology Specialists focus on psychosocial development from childhood to adulthood in eight stages.

Please note, everyone will go through stages and each stage will have positive and negative experiences. A healthy personality will be obtained if one can pass through the crisis well in the task of development.

On psychological theories of children, babies need a loving care that she felt safe. Inconsistency and rejection in infancy will lead to the nursemaid continuing mistrust of other people and the wider environment.

During early childhood, many things that attracted him to want to always try, though sometimes at a dangerous thing. At this stage, adults must provide support. Erikson warned that excessive restrictions and criticism will lead to a growing sense of doubt on the ability itself.

Research on child psychology, which focuses on intelligence chapter, Gardner further expressed with the concept of intelligence Plural or Multiple intelligence (MI). Gardner identifies intelligence as the ability to find and search for problem solving and forming a product that has perceived value than one culture.

The seven intelligences are: linguistic, logical, mathematical, spatial, kinesthetic, musical, intrapersonal, interpersonal and naturalist. Everyone has different potential. Each can be developed at some stage.

Cries for hours

Related child psychology, you may find your child cry for hours. Key assuage the crying and screaming children are calm and do not need to rush. Parents who appear nervous or harbored anger would have little difficulty accepting the condition that also was not comfortable with his own tears.

Children need a quiet figure, and able to control his emotions. Control your emotions will make an additional reaction of any tolerance space that will be issued a child. Cries the boy’s beautiful natural musical voice.

According to Hans Grothe, a development psychologist from Germany, actually the child’s crying and screaming tantrums was not related to age. Not only 2-year-old boy who did it, three or five years of age is sometimes still do.

The largest frequency is at the age of 2 years. According to him, there are three keys to soothe crying children, peace, tranquility and serenity. Of course in three different levels.

This capability does not just fall from the sky, but the parents need to train and learn to see the reactions of children. This is the need for parents to understand child psychology.

It should be understood, being a parent exactly like a researcher in the laboratory. Try a formula for parenting, solving problems in accordance with the culture and then see the reaction that occurs with the tested formula.

If no suitable and bad reaction, it must be tested formula of the other until the match. And usually a formula that is suitable for one child may not be suitable for other children. So to practice and learn to become researchers is the duty of parents to educate their children successfully. You will learn about the psychology of children who have no end.

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