All About IVFChildren are quite expressive in their growing years. They get to learn about the world in every activity during these years. From morning yoga to bed-time stories, every action affects their life. Based on the experiences gathered from such lessons, they gradually start to express themselves.
Expressions can have numerous interpretations. There can be seen instances where parents misinterpret the child’s emotion, which gradually hampers the communication between them.
Children need to be guided the right way to express their emotions. Proper expression by the child helps the parents communicate well, assisting in their holistic growth and development.
The ability to express the right way can help the children gather the proper knowledge and understanding about the world they saw.
Here are 5 simple ways by which children can express their emotions:-
1. Starting from the beginning of the typical day in a children’s life, they see their parents doing their morning exercise, meditation, etc. Children can be taught about the importance of expression, in their way, through meditation. Parents can make their children understand by taking their example of how they control their anger by closing their eyes, taking a few deep breaths to cool down, and later explain the reason for anger. Expressing emotions would relieve the child from excessive thinking and fear.
2. Emojis have become a part of our everyday life. Children can be taught the meaning and explanation behind each expression, the difference between a good and a bad expression with the help of emojis. Teaching in the form of pictures can help the children capture and retain knowledge for a longer time. It helps them build their confidence, self-awareness, understanding ability, and self-advocacy.
3. Sketching and Colouring are common activities among children. They can also be taught the language of expression through colors, which colors depict emotions in the form of rhymes. They can also be asked to draw what they think about each expression and based on that parents can give an idea on how to implement their creativity in their expression.
Not only the arts, but they can incorporate music, dance, etc., as a way of expression. It builds up the creativity among the children and boosts their self-confidence level. Enrolling them in drama schools is also a good option. It would give them a platform to interact with other children and know how they share their emotions. It helps them in communicating more effectively and efficiently.
4. Parents often give their children any decision to make, such as, what to wear, what to eat, etc. Allowing the children the option to choose e.g., picking up one from any two outfits, picking up which Storybook to read, choosing between two dishes, etc., would incorporate in them ‘the art of choice’ which can give their parents an idea about the opinion of their child. This helps the children in expressing their likes and dislikes. The ability to choose would help them in their later phases of life as well.
5. Reading Storybook is a nighttime routine in every household. Teaching your children the ability to express themselves through Storybook will help them understand what they are taught. Expressing emotions in all places is not acceptable. Just being able to express is not enough; getting to know the difference between good and bad feelings also needs to be understood. Parents, taking as an example, the characters of the story can make the child understand how they can release their emotions.
Children, at their age, learn from what they see. They can express what they feel on their own from their experiences. Some children may express fear if they do something that was not accepted. Some may feel guilty for the same incident.
It is natural for them to learn to express their emotions on their own, the only need is to guide them in the right way to express it. Expressing emotions is more effective than a normal conversation. It will help the child to socialize, build-up their confidence.
It is an effective tool for self-development as well. The ability to express emotion would be a life-long quality for your child. Let them express, the right way!!
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