Over 25 million children can be found online! And this is a rough estimate. The actual figures can be pretty astonishing. The Internet has changed our lives and habits too. While you cannot keep an eye on which websites does your child visit, you can definitely do something that would not offend your child and still provide him with quality education. Yes, I am talking about Online Learning.
Studies have shown that forcing your child not to do a particular thing can have adverse effects. Children cannot be ‘tamed’ by force. We must understand this. If parents keep on trying to discipline their children, the expected results would never come.
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On the need to focus on childhood events along with the developmental theories for a comprehensive psychology of children
Child psychology is associated with the social and personal development of children and a child goes through several stages before stepping into the adult world. The psychology of children has been studied from various perspectives including issues of nature and nurture and whether the child is a product of genes and heredity or a product of society and environment as also different developmental stages of sensory discrimination and perception, emotional expression and learning through language and cognitive development, development of intelligence and the socialization process. The study of child sexuality and sexual and moral development are also very important especially from a psychoanalytic viewpoint.
Children are vulnerable and affected easily by all events in the immediate environment. Events which are only trivial or unimportant to adults, may leave deep scars or memories in a child’s mind. A child’s mind is extremely impressionable and changeable and before the child reaches adolescence, certain very insignificant events can have great personal significance in a child’s life. So ‘childhood memories’ and ‘childhood events’ are primary factors in determining adult personality pattern. Some major factors which can affect a child’s later development and have potential long term effects are:
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