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Thursday, January 22, 2015

Emotional development of the child

EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT 

Physicians and many parents understand children's actions and attitudes better today than was true forty or fifty years ago. We know, from studies of human emotions, that much of what even adults do is the result of complicated feelings, some of which we are not consciously aware of. We know that the development of generally reasonable behavior comes only with growing up physically, and so we expect children to be governed by their feelings rather than by reason or logic. 

We know that glib judgments that a child is "good" or "bad" are useless. It is far more important to realize that a child's emotional development, along with his physical and intellectual development, does not march smoothly down a broad highway, nicely in step. Children have their "bad" periods-for example, at about two and a half when they suddenly seem to become tense, fearful and contrary.

Then perhaps, just as suddenly, they become "good" at three. 

Periods of equilibrium are, of course, easier than those of uneven development, but both are part of growth. The suddenly balky child at two and a half is the same child as at two, and equally deserving of love. We don't want to give the impression that parents need never be  concerned about children's behavior. But we do want to emphasize that difficulties are part of growth and should be regarded as challenges to you to find ways to help and support a child as he weathers the squalls. Don't be a "fair-weather" parent who loves a child only when things are going well. 

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