In order for children to grow up to be individuals who are curious about their environment and aim to learn and produce, it is of great importance that their questions are answered patiently by parents and the people around them.
However... after a while, the answers given by parents during this questioning process begin to become insufficient due to the processes brought about by the developmental process. At this point, peers need to step in. Because research has discovered that children who are together with their peers have much richer developmental areas such as language, cognitive, social and emotional, and self-care.
Social development is a process that begins at birth, develops with the environment and is shaped by school.
The child obtains many social and emotional gains from his parents and other individuals around him. However, a child who is trying to exist in a school or similar social group for the first time will have some difficulty in adapting to the social environment when he/she performs some of the behaviors that are accepted at home. He rightfully feels astonishment. In fact, these difficulties are the first steps the child takes to learn how to adapt to society.
Social emotional development for the child is a social relationship network that covers the current period and will become increasingly complex. It is of great importance for the child's developmental process that he encounters some difficulties and is able to solve these difficulties in order for the healthy development of developmental processes such as his sense of self-confidence, the ability to express his emotions and individualization in an environment where he is with his peers. (Of course, if the parents allow this process. Oh, don't get tired, I will do it, etc.) (Please let him get tired or fail).
Because he won't be able to achieve success without getting tired or succeeding.
Children who can establish healthy relationships with their peers will make positive progress in the medium and long term, especially in their social development and other developmental areas.
Peer relationships show different processes at each age. The social environment in which the child lives, individual characteristics of people, and their interactions with each other shape the structure of peer relationships. The child's personality structure, temperament characteristics and The balance of power is of great importance in shaping peer relationships positively or negatively.
Peer relationships are a multifaceted form of relationship that includes positive and negative behaviors. These relationships are the first step that will affect other social relationships in society. Parents' attitudes, communication style with the child, and family dynamics affect the child's peer relationships. Likewise, the child's relationship with his peers, his attitudes and behaviors also affect the relationship within the family.
There is a mutual interaction.
Positive attitudes such as helpfulness, kindness and cooperation start at a very young age and It develops over the years. Expressing the child's emotions appropriately in cases of conflict will affect the positive development of their relationships.
As children get older, the structure of peer relationships develops and changes. With this development and change, the time spent with peers and the structure of the games become different and more complex. Our attitude towards the situations that children experience with their friends should be impartial and solution-oriented. Because they do not continue the problems they experience for a long time and continue their games from where they left off.
As parents, we must teach children to express their emotions in a healthy way and help them cope with problems on their own.
With love
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